Psychology

Correlates of mastery-related behavior: a short-term longitudinal study of infants in their second year.

Document Type

Article

Abstract

The present study examined correlates of mastery-related behavior across the infant's second year of life. Maternal control style was quantified on a control to support-of-autonomy continuum, infant-mother attachment was assessed in the Strange Situation, and mastery-related behavior was observed in a toy play session at 12 and 20 months. Infants whose mothers were supportive of their autonomy displayed greater task-oriented persistence and competence during play than did infants of more controlling mothers; securely attached and avoidant infants tended to exhibit greater persistence at tasks than anxious-ambivalent babies, and ambivalent babies were the most negative in affect.

Publication Title

Child development

Publication Date

1985

Volume

56

Issue

5

First Page

1291

Last Page

1298

ISSN

0009-3920

DOI

10.1111/j.1467-8624.1985.tb00197.x

Keywords

attachment behavior, mastery-related behavior, 22–40 yr old mothers & infants during 2nd yr of life

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