A CATEGORICAL DESCRIPTION OF INFANT‐MOTHER RELATIONSHIPS IN THE HOME AND ITS RELATION TO Q‐SORT MEASURES OF INFANT‐MOTHER INTERACTION
The research reported here was supported by grants from the Ontario Mental Health Foundation and from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada. We are grateful to the mothers and infants who participated in this research and to Sandi Bento, Gail Buckland, Jane Myles, Andrea Noonan, and Ann Robson for conducting the home observations. Special acknowledgment is given to Sandi Bento for her assistance in the development of the home‐based attachment classification system.

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