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CN 11-1911/B

›› 2003, Vol. 35 ›› Issue (02): 201-208.

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RESEARCH ON DISCRIMINATION OF MOTHER-INFANT ATTACHMENT TYPE

Hu Ping 1 2,Meng Zhaolan3   

  1. 1 Institute of Education, Renmin University, Beijing, China 100872; 2 The Learning and Cognition Lab, Capital Normal University, Beijing, China 100037
  • Received:2002-08-26 Revised:1900-01-01 Published:2003-03-30 Online:2003-03-30
  • Contact: Hu Ping

Abstract: This paper presents a longitudinal and transversal study on city mother-infant attachment. 64 twelve-month-old infants were tested by similar Ainsworth’s “Stranger Situation Procedure” and Vaughn’ and Waters’ Q-sort method. The results indicated: (1) the Discrimination Function of the mother-infant attachment types were similar to that of the classical researches abroad; (2) the different attachment types of` mother-infant pairs were consistent in cross-situational and cross-age subject tests; (3) compared with the classical studies on Western infants of same types, the Chinese city infants showed distinctions in some attachment behavior, which were possibly due to cultural-environmental and family parenting factors

Key words: attachment, discrimination function, attachment behavior

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