The purpose of the following investigation is to determine the correlation between maternal attitudes (acceptance, over-protection, over-indulgence, rejection) and the levels of anxiety in recluse mothers in a prison in Metropolitan Lima. The sample was constituted by 98 incarcerated mothers, who had children between the ages of 0 and 3 years inside or outside the prison, and the sampling type was non-probabilistic-for convenience. The design of the study was Descriptive-Correlational. As a result we found a correlation coefficient of ,469, which means there is a moderated relation between the variables; because motherhood as biological and psychological process implies changes in the emotional state of the mother. For the specific objectives we found a correlation coefficient of de ,0235 (acceptance); ,1295 (over-protection); ,0678 (over-indulgence); ,0762 (rejection). Also, there is a ...