
ERIC Number: EJ328563
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Publication Date: 1985
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Perceptions of Personal Agency and Infant Attachment: Toward a Life-Span Perspective on Competence Development.
Ford, Martin E.; Thompson, Ross A.
International Journal of Behavioral Development, v8 n4 p377-406 Dec 1985
Sketches the outlines of a life-span perspective on competence development, which focuses on beliefs about one's potential for producing desirable outcomes. The concern is with the nature and implications of individual differences in perceptions of personal agency and likely origins and development of the perceptions in the early years. (Author/BB)
Descriptors: Adjustment (to Environment), Attachment Behavior, Attitudes, Child Caregivers, Child Development, Competence, Contingency Management, Early Childhood Education, Individual Differences, Infant Behavior, Infants, Interpersonal Relationship, Literature Reviews, Locus of Control, Parents, Social Adjustment
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Language: English
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