Belsky & Rovine 1988 - negative effects of daycare
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- Belsky & Rovine 1988
- Aim
- look at infants in the first year of life and see the effects of non-maternal care using the strange situation procedure
- Sample
- 90 males
- 59 females
- middle class background
- 38 infants in full time daycare
- 20 infants in high part time daycare
- 24 infants in low part time daycare
- 67 infants in mother care group
- Procedure
- interviews carried out when baby was 3 months old
- again at 9 and 12 months
- find out about parents' employment and childcare arrangements
- again at 9 and 12 months
- strange situation procedure
- 12 months with mothers
- 13 months with fathers
- interviews carried out when baby was 3 months old
- Findings
- more full time daycare infants were classed as insecurely attached (47%) than those with little/no daycare (25%)
- low part time daycare showed fewer insecure attachments than those in high part time daycare
- those in daycare for more than 20 hours had more insecure attachments than those in for less than 20 hours
- Conclusions
- infants in extensive care are more likely to be insecurely attached to mothers
- sons in full time care are more likely to be insecurely attached to their fathers
- extensive non-maternal care in the first year of life is associated with insecure patterns of attachment
- Aim
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