Children's attachment evolution with the educational staff in chilean child care centers Evolución del vínculo que establece el niño con el personal educativo en salas cuna chilenas

Abstract

The present study pretends to evaluate the bond that the children develop with their care centre staff in Chilean crèches, analyzing the caregiver sensitivity and the cooperative child response. A group of 43 toddlers between 8 months and 2 years old in interaction with their principal care giver at the child centre, was observed in three different moments during a year. Results show that the care centre staff maintain their sensitivity, decrease their controlled response and increase significantly their non responsiveness in time; while children increase in a significantly way their cooperativeness and diminished significantly their ambivalent response.