Parent-infant attachment: a study of parental attitudes and behaviors prior to adoption

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Title Parent-infant attachment: a study of parental attitudes and behaviors prior to adoption
Publication Type thesis
School or College College of Nursing
Department Nursing
Author Jackson, Kathleen Merrill
Date 1989-06
Description The purpose of the study was to identify the feelings, attitudes, and behaviors of expectant adoptive couples pertaining to attachment. To this end, each member of five couples involved in private adoption who were awaiting the delivery of a promised infant were interviewed using a modified version of the Cranley Maternal-Fetal Attachment Scale to which various subscales related to adoption were added. The findings of the study revealed that these expectant adoptive parents did engage in attachment behaviors and expressed strong feelings and attitudes. Refinement of the tool and expansion of this research are clearly indicated.
Type Text
Publisher University of Utah
Subject Attitude; Behavior; Emoations
Subject MESH Adaptation, Psychological; Adoption; Object Attachment; Parent-Child Relations
Dissertation Institution University of Utah
Dissertation Name MS
Language eng
Relation is Version of Digital reproduction of "Parent-infant attachment: a study of parental attitudes and behaviors prior to adoption". Spencer S. Eccles Health Sciences Library. Print version of "Parent-infant attachment: a study of parental attitudes and behaviors prior to adoption". available at J. Willard Marriott Library Special Collection. HV15.5 1989 .J33
Rights Management © Kathleen Merrill Jackson
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Source Original: University of Utah Spencer S. Eccles Health Sciences Library (no longer available).
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Reference URL https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s6rf5wrb
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