. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2015 Nov 1.

Published in final edited form as: Infant Behav Dev. 2014 Jul 12;37(4):491–504. doi: 10.1016/j.infbeh.2014.06.002

Table 4.

Frequency of Infant Gaze Fixations by Maternal Attachment Classification

	Secure^b (n = 25)	Insecure/Dismissing^b (n = 16)
Infant gaze direction ^a
Gaze at mother	0.359 ± 0.023	0.268 ± 0.033
Gaze away	0.289 ± 0.030	0.382 ± 0.031

Note. Frequency values (M ± SE) shown are proportion values, adjusted for the total number of gaze fixations recorded for each infant during the still-face phase of the MSFP. Data for infant gaze are shown separately for infants whose mothers were prospectively classified to have secure vs. insecure/dismissing attachment. Untransformed values are reported here for illustrative purposes, while statistical tests were conducted using arcsine transformed variables.

Frequency of infant gaze was assessed during the still-face phase.

Maternal attachment was assessed prenatally during the third trimester of pregnancy.