Dear all
I have been searching information related to caregiver gender and child behavior, focused mainly on boys behavior when compared with the mother and father or caregiver male vs female. I have found previous articles such as this: Article Is Caregiver Gender Important for Boys and Girls? Gender-Spe...
were gender is used to measure attachment and interactions, but the focus we are looking for is:H1: male infants are more active in front of the mother/female caregiver when compared to the father/male caregiver as a way to seek for attention, (like the male peacock shows its feathers to the female peacock when seeking a mate).
The focus on male infants is because they are generally classified as more active than female infants, and because mothers tend to be more frequent with the infants than the father, so probably the behavior of the infant is related to the attention search because of gender.
And if research has been made, could we classified this behavior as an alpha status of some animals in infants, if the behavior would change when exposed to a male (father/caregiver) that would impose himself with the infant.
Regards,
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