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The Stability of Individual Differences in Infant-Mother Attachment.

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Waters, Everett – 1977

This study compared three ways of analyzing individual mother-infant attachment behaviors in order to test the hypothesis that success in the search for stable individual differences in attachment behavior is in part a function of the level at which behavior individuality is assessed. Fifty infants were videotaped in the Ainsworth and Wittig…

Descriptors: Attachment Behavior, Behavior Rating Scales, Behavioral Science Research, Comparative Analysis

Electroencephalogram Asymmetry in Response to the Approach of a Stranger and Maternal Separation in 10-Month-Old Infants.

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Fox, Nathan A.; Davidson, Richard J. – Developmental Psychology, 1987

Reports relationship between asymmetries in frontal-brain electrical activity and individual differences in affective response in 35 ten-month-old females. Stranger-approach, mother-approach, and maternal-separation experiences were presented while an electroencephalogram (EEG) from scalp regions was recorded and facial and other behavioral…

Descriptors: Affective Behavior, Attachment Behavior, Behavior Rating Scales, Electroencephalography

Infants at Social Risk: Relations Among Infant Maltreatment, Maternal Behavior, and Infant Attachment Behavior.

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Lyons-Ruth, Karlen; And Others – Developmental Psychology, 1987

Fifty-six 12-month-old infants, (10 maltreated infants; 18 nonmaltreated, high-risk infants; and 28 matched low-income controls) were videotaped at home with their mothers for 40 minutes and were observed two weeks later in the Ainsworth Strange Situation. Maltreating mothers could be discriminated by uninformed coders from nonmaltreating mothers.…

Descriptors: Attachment Behavior, Behavior Rating Scales, Child Abuse, Child Neglect