Security of Infant-Mother, -Father, and -Metapelet Attachments among Kibbutz-Reared Israeli Children

Abstract

Although the Strange Situation procedure was developed two decades ago, it was until recently used exclusively in the United States. Only in the late 1970s did researchers begin using the procedure in other countries, notably, Sweden (Lamb, Hwang, Frodi, & Frodi, 1982), West Germany (Grossmann et al., 1981; Grossmann et al., in this vol.), andJapan (Miyake et al., in this vol.). What follows is a report of our attempt to use the Strange Situation procedure to explore the effects of kibbutz rearing practices on