THE DETERMINANTS OF CHILDREN'S RESPONSES TO SEPARATION.
This study investigated the determinants of children's responses in an unfamiliar setting to brief separations from their mothers. Fifty 2-year-old children and their mothers were observed during free play. Thirty children were from middle-class families; 20 were from lower-class families. Half the...
| Publicado en: | Monographs of the Society for Research in Child Development Vol. 42; no. 4; pp. 1 - 83 |
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Wiley-Blackwell
1977
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