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Effects of Visual and Auditory Aspects of Mothers and Strangers on the Play and Exploration of Children.
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Adams, Roderick E.; Passman, Richard H. – Developmental Psychology, 1979
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Interaction Process Analysis, Mothers, Play
Infant-Mother Attachment at Twelve Months and Style of Interaction with a Stranger at the Age of Three Years.
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Lutkenhaus, Paul; And Others – Child Development, 1985
Children classified as securely attached at 12 months interacted faster and more smoothly with the stranger than did avoidantly-attached peers. Microanalyses revealed different styles of interaction. Failure feedback increased efforts of securely-attached and decreased efforts of insecurely-attached children. After failure, securely-attached…
Descriptors: Attachment Behavior, Emotional Response, Failure, Feedback
Dependency in Day-Care and Home-Care Children
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Cornelius, Steven W.; Denney, Nancy Wadsworth – Developmental Psychology, 1975
No differences were found between home-care and day-care 4- and 5-year-olds on dependency measures. However, home-care girls sought proximity toward their mothers significantly more often than home-care boys, while day-care girls did not differ from day-care boys. This suggests that day-care children may be less sex typed than home-care children.…
Descriptors: Day Care, Early Childhood Education, Mothers, Parent Child Relationship
Day Care and Attachment
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Portnoy, Fern C.; Simmons, Carolyn H. – Child Development, 1978
The attachment behavior of 35 white, middle-class 3 1/2- to 4-year-olds who had experienced different rearing histories was observed through a series of standardized episodes involving separations and reunions with the mother and a stranger. (Author/JMB)
Descriptors: Attachment Behavior, Child Rearing, Day Care, Mothers
Initiating Day Care at Three Years of Age: Effects on Attachment
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Moskowitz, Debbie S.; And Others – Child Development, 1977
The Ainsworth-Wittig strange situation was used to compare 12 42-month-old children with approximately 6 months of day care experience to individually matched children who had not had group child rearing experience. Results did not support the idea that day-care experience impairs attachment to the mother. (JMB)
Descriptors: Attachment Behavior, Day Care, Early Childhood Education, Group Experience
Returning the Smile of the Stranger: Developmental Patterns and Socialization Factors.
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Babad, Yael E.; And Others – Monographs of the Society for Research in Child Development, 1983
Investigates children's tendency to return the smile of a friendly stranger in two cultures: Israel and the United States. In the first study, developmental trends in smiling behavior are examined. In the second, mothers' socialization philosophies and childrearing practices are explored in an interview and a conjoint mother/child task. (RH)
Descriptors: Adolescents, Child Rearing, Children, Cross Cultural Studies
Strangers' Spending Time with Children Affects Adaptation to Maternal Separation.
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Donate-Bartfield, Evelyn L.; Passman, Richard H. – 1995
This study examined techniques which facilitate children's separation from their mothers and their move into a novel situation. Subjects were 32 male and 32 female 40- to 48-month-old children. Some children were visited in their homes the night before the experiment. Subjects remained with their mothers in a waiting room for 10 minutes. A…
Descriptors: Affective Behavior, Emotional Response, Familiarity, Family School Relationship