The home environments, daily activities, caregiving behaviors of mothers, infant's verbal behaviors, attachment to mothers of home-reared infants from low SES families were observed. 30 two-year-old home-reared infants and their mothers were observed at home by the time sampling method. The HOME scale, the behavioral checking lists for caregiving behaviors and for the infants' verbal behaviors, and the Attachment Q-set were used for the observation. the total HOME scores were in the middle range and the scores of "Provision of apropriate play materials" was relatively high, but "Avoidance of restriction and physical punishment" was low. The most frequent caregiving behaviors shown by mothers were " Facilitating verbal development" and "Positive social-emotional inputs". The most frequent verbal behaviors shown by infants were " Information exchange" and " Language interpretation" . The infants' attachment security scores of their mothers tended to be low.
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