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Peer reviewedLyons-Ruth, Karlen; And Others – Developmental Psychology, 1987
Fifty-six 12-month-old infants, (10 maltreated infants; 18 nonmaltreated, high-risk infants; and 28 matched low-income controls) were videotaped at home with their mothers for 40 minutes and were observed two weeks later in the Ainsworth Strange Situation. Maltreating mothers could be discriminated by uninformed coders from nonmaltreating mothers.…
Descriptors: Attachment Behavior, Behavior Rating Scales, Child Abuse, Child Neglect


