Through Colombian lenses: ethnographic and conventional analyses of maternal care and their associations with secure base behavior.
Dev Psychol
; 40(4): 508-18, 2004 Jul.
Article
em En
| MEDLINE
| ID: mdl-15238039
According to attachment theory, the quality of care plays a key role in the organization of infants' secure base behavior across contexts and cultures. Yet information about attachment relationships in a variety of cultures is scarce, and questions remain as to whether Ainsworth's conceptualization of early care quality (sensitivity; M. D. S. Ainsworth, M. C. Blehar, E. Waters, & S. Wall, 1978) is appropriate for characterizing caregiving behavior in different groups and whether culturally specific descriptions of early care are related to conventional measures of maternal sensitivity and to infants' security. In this naturalistic study of mother-infant interactions in Colombia, scores on different domains of maternal care were obtained through ethnographic methodology, and conventional Q-sort scores for maternal and infant behavior were obtained. Findings are discussed in terms of the cross-cultural generality of the sensitivity construct and the sensitivity-security link and of the relevance of naturalistic open-ended studies in different contexts.
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Coleções:
01-internacional
Base de dados:
MEDLINE
Assunto principal:
Cultura
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Comportamento Materno
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Relações Mãe-Filho
Tipo de estudo:
Prognostic_studies
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Qualitative_research
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Risk_factors_studies
Aspecto:
Determinantes_sociais_saude
Limite:
Adult
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Child
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Female
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Humans
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Infant
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Male
País/Região como assunto:
America do sul
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Colombia
Idioma:
En
Revista:
Dev Psychol
Ano de publicação:
2004
Tipo de documento:
Article
País de afiliação:
Estados Unidos
País de publicação:
Estados Unidos