Belsky and Rovine Description
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- Belsky and Rovine (1988) Negative Effects
- Aim
- Compare rates of insecure attachments with full-time working parents, part-time and full-time mothers.
- Practical
- 149 12-13 month babies (90 male, 59 female)
- Married heterosexual parents, middle-class families.
- Assessed attachment w/ both parents.
- Strange Situation at 12 months w/ mother, 13 w/ father.
- Special attention at stage 8.(response to reunited)
- Mothers interviewed about work.
- Classified; how many hours used daycare a week.
- Mothers interviewed at child age 3, 6, 12 months.
- rates of insecure attachment calculated in relation to mothers working hours.
- 149 12-13 month babies (90 male, 59 female)
- Conclusion
- Daycare 20 + hours a week increases risk of insecure attachment to mother.
- Mother working 35+ hours a week increases risk insecure attachment to father.
- Results
- Using daycare more than 20 hours = higher insecure attachment.
- Babies whose mothers work 35+ hours = higher likely insecure attachment to father.
- More than half in full-time day care did not have insecure attachments.
- Aim
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