Infants of Adolescent and Adult Mothers: Two Indices of Socioemotional Development.

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Adolescents; Adults; Age Differences; Attachment Behavior; Child Development; Infants; Mastery Tests; Mothers; Parent Child Relationship; Persistence

0001-8449

Compared infant-mother attachment and mastery motivation in babies born to adolescent and adult mothers. Found more, although not significantly so, securely attached infants among those born to adult than to adolescent mothers. Infants of adolescent mothers were significantly more persistent than infants of adult mothers, although they were affectively less positive during toy play. (Author/NB)

1991

EJ417829