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A Home-Based Description of Attachment in Physically Disabled Infants.
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Tessier, Rejean; Tarabulsy, George M.; Larin, Stephanie; Laganiere, Josee; Gagnon, Marie-France; Trahan, Johanne – Social Development, 2002
Investigated attachment security and behavior in 34 physically disabled infants and 26 non-disabled infants using convergent, categorical, and continuous (Attachment Behavior Q-Set) measures of relationship, based on the same set of home observations. Proportions of attachment classifications were identical for each group, but insecure disabled…
Descriptors: Attachment Behavior, Emotional Response, Infant Behavior, Infants
Measuring Infant-Mother Attachment: Is the Strange Situation Enough?
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Clarke-Stewart, K. Alison; Goossens, Frits A.; Allhusen, Virginia D. – Social Development, 2001
Examined validity of the California Attachment Procedure (CAP), which does not involve mother-child separations. Overall, toddlers were more likely to be classified as secure in the CAP than in the Strange Situation (SS) test. The CAP yielded higher rates of security, particularly for children in day care, and security in the CAP correlated more…
Descriptors: Attachment Behavior, Comparative Analysis, Emotional Development, Evaluation Methods
First Communion: The Emergence of Vocal Relationships.
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Locke, John L. – Social Development, 2001
Proposes that vocal communion between infant and caregiver supports infants' language acquisition and connectedness with caregivers. Recommends research to determine whether social behaviors such as joint attention and vocal imitation are functionally related to language learning or are only symptomatic of a survival-centered caregiving…
Descriptors: Attachment Behavior, Caregiver Child Relationship, Caregiver Speech, Child Language