Peer reviewedERIC Number: EJ359844
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 1987
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Effects of Maternal Absence Due to Employment on the Quality of Infant-Mother Attachment in a Low-Risk Sample.
Barglow, Peter; And Others
Child Development, v58 n4 p945-54 Aug 1987
Results from this study of 110 low-risk, middle-class infants showed that a significantly greater proportion of infants whose mothers worked full-time outside the home were assigned to the category "insecure-avoidant" than infants whose mothers remained in the home throughout their children's first year of life. (PCB)
Descriptors: Attachment Behavior, Day Care, Employed Parents, Infant Behavior, Infants, Middle Class, Mothers
Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
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Language: English
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