Abstract (eng)
The INTAKT-system assesses the quality of mother-child-interactions on the basis of the dimensions sensitivity, parental feedback and joint attention. The study at hand focusses on joint attention, which is proven to be related to many areas of a child’s competence. At the moment, the INTAKT-system is using the software INTERACT of Mangold for coding and analysis, which is expensive, time-consuming and therefore not suitable for practitioners. The goal of the study at hand is to develop a coding-system, that is more economic and to identify correlations between joint attention and results of developmental tests of infants. For this purpose, a manual coding-system was developed by merging the joint attention categories of the INTAKT-system and by using the predominant-activity-sampling-method and the one-zero-sampling-method in 15-seconds-intervals instead of the event-sampling-method. For calculating the correlations between joint attention and a child’s development, the results of the Wiener Entwicklungstest were used. Via Cohens Kappa, it could be proved, that the more economic coding-system shows adequate reliability. Also the other quality criteria can be seen as achieved. Moreover, there could be found correlations between joint attention and some areas of a child’s competence. In summary, the developed coding-system can be seen as a fine approach, which should be enhanced in further studies.