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Download full textClarke-Stewart, K. Alison – 1987
In his article "The 'Effects' of Infant Day Care Reconsidered," Jay Belsky (see PS 017 108) concludes that maternal employment puts infants at risk for developing emotional insecurity and social maladjustment. After a review of Belsky's and other research, a different conclusion is offered in this paper. It is agreed that infants whose…
Descriptors: Attachment Behavior, Day Care, Employed Women, Infant Behavior
Peer reviewedJacobson, Joseph L; Wille, Diane E. – Developmental Psychology, 1984
Distress in response to brief maternal separations was examined in a sample of 93 predominantly home-reared infants using the Ainsworth strange situation paradigm. At 18 months, the age when separation protests begin to decline, securely attached infants are better able than anxiously attached infants to tolerate maternal separations. (Author/RH)
Descriptors: Attachment Behavior, Coping, Day Care, Early Childhood Education
