Maternal Employment in a Family Context: Effects on Infant-Mother and Infant-Father Attachments.

Chase-Lansdale, P. Lindsay; Owen, Margaret Tresch

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ERIC Number: EJ363969

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Publication Date: 1987

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Maternal Employment in a Family Context: Effects on Infant-Mother and Infant-Father Attachments.

Chase-Lansdale, P. Lindsay; Owen, Margaret Tresch

Child Development, v58 n6 p1505-12 Dec 1987

The relation between resumption of full-time employment by mothers of infants, and subsequent infant-mother and infant-father attachments, was examined. No relation emerged between maternal work status and the quality of infants' attachments to their mothers. (PCB)

Descriptors: Attachment Behavior, Employed Parents, Fathers, Infant Behavior, Infants, Mothers, Parent Child Relationship, Sex Differences

Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research

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Language: English

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