Olga Alicia Carbonell

TL;DR: A study of maternal care and infant security in 2 different countries and the generality of the sensitivity-security link, the appropriateness of the model of caregiving suggested by attachment theory in both countries, and the relevance of other domains of care Giving to security are discussed.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors test the hypothesis that beliefs about the ideal mother are convergent across cultures and that these beliefs overlap considerably with attachment theory's notion of the sensitive mother.

TL;DR: This article addressed issues arising from modest correlations, questions about the generality of results across cultures and social contexts and about the context specificity of caregiving behavior in home and hospital contexts, and the need for further research on caregiving in ordinary and emergency situations.

TL;DR: This paper found that mothers whose stories indicate that they have access to and use a positive secure-base script in their story production have children who treat them as a "secure base" at home.

TL;DR: In this naturalistic study of mother-infant interactions in Colombia, scores on different domains of maternal care were obtained through ethnographic methodology, and conventional Q-sort scores for maternal and infant behavior were obtained.