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EJ367881 PS515534

Title: Nonmaternal Care in the First Year of Life and the Security of Infant-Parent Attachment.
Author(s): Belsky, Jay; Rovine, Michael J.
Source: Child Development, v59 n1 p157-67 Feb 1988
Publication Date: 1988
Language: English
Document Type: Journal articles (080); Reports--Research (143)
Journal Announcement: CIJJUL1988
Target Audience: Researchers

Combines and examines evidence from two longitudinal studies of infant and family development to determine whether experience of extensive nonmaternal care in the first year is associated with heightened risk of insecure infant-mother attachment and, in the case of sons, infant-father attachment. (Author/RWB)

Descriptors: Affective Behavior; *Attachment Behavior; Behavior Patterns; *Day Care; Early Childhood Education; Fathers; *Infants; Longitudinal Studies; Mothers; *Parent Child Relationship; *Parent Influence; *Security (Psychology)