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)
