EARLY MALTREATMENT AND CURRENT QUALITY OF RELATIONAL CARE PREDICT SOCIOEMOTIONAL PROBLEMS AMONG INSTITUTIONALIZED INFANTS AND TODDLERS

This study was conducted at the Psychology Research Centre (PSI/01662), University of Minho, and supported by Fundac¸ao BIAL (13/06), the Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology (PTDC/PSI-PCL/101506/2008), and the Portuguese Ministry of Science, Technology and Higher Education through national funds, and co-financed by FEDER through COMPETE2020 under the PT2020 Partnership Agreement (POCI-01-0145-FEDER-007653). We are very grateful to the students who helped with data collection. Special thanks to the children, caregivers, and other institutional staff who participated in the study.