Infants at social risk: Relations among infant maltreatment, maternal behavior, and infant attachment behavior.

Lyons-Ruth, Karlen; Connell, David B.; Zoll, David; Stahl, Julie

doi:10.1037/0012-1649.23.2.223

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Infants at social risk: Relations among infant maltreatment, maternal behavior, and infant attachment behavior.

Lyons-Ruth, Karlen, Connell, David B., Zoll, David, Stahl, Julie·1987·Developmental Psychology

DOI 10.1037/0012-1649.23.2.223

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Fifty-six 12-month-old infants, including 10 maltreated infants, 18 nonmaltreated high-risk infants, and 28 matched low-income controls, were videotaped in naturalistic settings at home with their mothers for 40 min and were observed 2 weeks later in the Ainsworth Strange Situation. Maltreating mothers were rated higher than nonmaltreating mothers on covertly hostile and interfering behaviors toward their infants at home. Maltreated infants were more avoidant of their mothers in the Strange Situation than nonmaltreated infants. Correlations between maternal behaviors at home and infant behaviors in the Strange Situation revealed that mothers whose infants displayed resistant behavior on reunion were rated at home as less verbally communicative and mothers whose infants displayed avoidant behavior on reunion were rated at home as more covertly hostile. Infants showing mixed avoidance and resistance were more likely to have extremely uncommunicative mothere than were infants who showed avoidance alone. Use of the behavioral rating scales for avoidance and resistance produced clearer findings than use of the final attachment classifications. Reasons for the discrepancies between analyses of classifications and analyses of behavior ratings were identified.

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Authors: Lyons-Ruth, K., Connell, D. B., Zoll, D., & Stahl, J.
Venue: Developmental Psychology
Publisher: American Psychological Association (APA)
Published: 1987-03
Volume: 23
Issue: 2
Pages: 223-232
ISSN: 0012-1649 (ISSN-L)
1939-0599
DOI: 10.1037/0012-1649.23.2.223
OpenAlex: W1971772185
Cited by: 248
References: 26
Citations by year: 2025: 1 · 2024: 3 · 2023: 2 · 2022: 1 · 2021: 5 · 2020: 4 · 2019: 4 · 2018: 2 · 2017: 5 · 2016: 5 · 2015: 11 · 2014: 10 · 2013: 6 · 2012: 7
FWCI: 7.58
Type: journal article
Language: en
Open access: closed
Locations: Developmental Psychology (publishedVersion)
Topics: Social Sciences › Psychology › Clinical Psychology › Child Abuse and Trauma
Social Sciences › Psychology › Social Psychology › Attachment and Relationship Dynamics
Social Sciences › Safety Research › Child Welfare and Adoption
Keywords: infant maltreatment, maternal behavior, infant attachment, attachment avoidance, resistant attachment, Ainsworth Strange Situation, home observation, low-income infants, mother-infant interaction

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