title: Development of mother-infant attachment scale.
abstract: A 15 item mother-infant attachment scale was developed. It is a simple, brief and easy to comprehend even by the illiterate rural woman. The split half reliability was found to be 0.83 and there was high internal consistency. It has high face and construct validity. The babies separated for longer period had shown lesser attachment subsequently, compared to those who had no separation.
authors.affiliation: Department of Pediatrics, Postgraduate Institute of Medical Education and Research, Chandigarh.
authors.forename: O N
authors.initials: ON
authors.lastname: Bhakoo
authors.forename: D
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Pershad
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Mahajan
authors.forename: S K
authors.initials: SK
authors.lastname: Gambhir
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D016000:Cluster Analysis; D003469:Culture; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007194:India; D007231:Infant, Newborn; D009034:Mother-Child Relations; D009769:Object Attachment; D011581:Psychological Tests; D011594:Psychometrics / Q000379:methods; D015203:Reproducibility of Results; D012424:Rural Population