Maternal Sensitivity and Newborns' Orientation Responses as Related to Quality of Attachment in Northern Germany
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TL;DR
This longitudinal study conducted in Bielefeld, North Germany focused on infant crying and maternal responsiveness, on behaviors relevant to close bodily contact, and on infant responses to brief everyday separations and reunions.
Abstract
Our longitudinal study was conducted in Bielefeld, North Germany. In our home observations we focused on infant crying and maternal responsiveness, on behaviors relevant to close bodily contact, and on infant responses to brief everyday separations and reunions. All these behaviors were found by Ainsworth et al. (1978) to be closely linked to the development of different patterns of infant-mother attachment. We also used Ainsworth's maternal sensitivity scale to make global ratings of maternal behavior during the infant's first year and correlated these ratings with infant attachment patterns in the Strange Situation. In addition, we tried to ascer-