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Peer reviewedFish, Margaret; Stifter, Cynthia A. – Journal of Rural Community Psychology, 1999
A longitudinal study of 94 low-socioeconomic-status rural Appalachian and 67 middle-class Pennsylvania mothers with infants found that, contrary to expectations, low-SES rural mothers were comparable to middle-class mothers on maternal self-efficacy, significantly higher on responsive attitude to infant crying, and comparable or better on…
Descriptors: Child Development, Infants, Lower Class Parents, Middle Class
