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Attachment, Exploration, and Separation: Illustrated by the Behavior of One-Year-Olds in a Strange Situation
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Mary D. Salter Ainsworth, Silvia M. Bell, Attachment, Exploration, and Separation: Illustrated by the Behavior of One-Year-Olds in a Strange Situation, Child Development, Vol. 41, No. 1 (Mar., 1970), pp. 49-67
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“For instance, highly stressed caregivers have a reduced capacity to socially buffer children (Ainsworth and Bell, 1970, Gunnar et al., 2007, Gunnar et al., 1996, Nachmias et al., 1996).”
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Metadata
- Authors
- Ainsworth, M. D. S., & Bell, S. M.
- Affiliations
- Johns Hopkins University (US)
- Venue
- Child Development
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press (OUP)
- Published
- 1970-03
- Volume
- 41
- Issue
- 1
- Pages
- 49
- ISSN
- 0009-3920 (ISSN-L)
- OpenAlex
- W2091863037
- Cited by
- 1,764
- References
- 29
- Citations by year
- 2026: 62 · 2025: 77 · 2024: 93 · 2023: 76 · 2022: 83 · 2021: 105 · 2020: 126 · 2019: 151 · 2018: 104 · 2017: 114 · 2016: 77 · 2015: 88 · 2014: 84 · 2013: 66 · 2012: 56
- FWCI
- 27.77
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- Child Development (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Social Psychology › Attachment and Relationship Dynamics
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Developmental and Educational Psychology › Child and Animal Learning Development
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Clinical Psychology › Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development
- Keywords
- attachment, exploration, separation, stranger anxiety, one-year-old children, Strange Situation Procedure, infant behavior
- MeSH terms
- Anxiety, Separation, Crying, Exploratory Behavior, Humans, Infant, Maternal Deprivation, Mother-Child Relations, Object Attachment
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