STRANGERS IN AN INFANT'S LIFE
| Autor: | Marshall Klaus, Mary Anne Trause |
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| Rok vydání: | 1974 |
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| Zdroj: | Pediatric Research. 8:346-346 |
| ISSN: | 1530-0447 0031-3998 |
| DOI: | 10.1203/00006450-197404000-00035 |
| Popis: | Recent observations suggest that the concept of “Stranger anxiety” has been over-simplified and that at least some of the fears shown are due to situational factors rather than to innate fears. To compare the effectiveness of varying environmental conditions in reducing infants' distress at being left with a stranger, the length of time during which the mother stayed with the infant-stranger pair before leaving them alone together and the manner in which the stranger first approached the baby and mother were systematically varied. 40 infants (mean age 53.1 weeks) from intact white families were studied. Only four of the infants fussed when the stranger first entered the room while mothers were present. However, once the mother left, infants responded significantly more negatively (p |
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