摘要：This study investigated parenting knowledge,interactions between mother and infant,and relationship between mother s parenting knowledge and mother- infant interaction by mothers' demographic variables. Subjects were 311 mothers. Instruments were the Knowledge of Child Development Inventory (Larsen & Juhasz,1986) and the Assessment Profile for Early Childhood programs (Abott-Shim & Sibely, 1987). Data were analyzed by t-test and ANOVA. Results showed (1) differences about parenting knowledge by mothers' employment status,age and education level,(2) differences in mother infant interaction by mothers' age and education level,(3) parenting knowledge about physical development correlated positively with positive interaction,linguistic modeling,and sensitive response knowledge about lingustic and cognitive development had a large ffet on positive mother infant interaction and linguistic modeling.
