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Direct linkHaltigan, John D.; Leerkes, Esther M.; Wong, Maria S.; Fortuna, Keren; Roisman, Glenn I.; Supple, Andrew J.; O'Brien, Marion; Calkins, Susan D.; Plamondon, André – Child Development, 2014
This study examined the developmental significance of mothers' adult attachment representations assessed prenatally with the Adult Attachment Interview in relation to observed maternal sensitivity at 6 months postpartum in an ethnically diverse sample (N = 131 African American; N = 128 European American). Multiple-group confirmatory factor…
Descriptors: Attachment Behavior, Mothers, Ethnicity, Parent Caregiver Relationship
Haydon, Katherine C.; Collins, W. A.; Salvatore, Jessica E.; Simpson, Jeffry A.; Roisman, Glenn I. – Child Development, 2012
To test proposals regarding the hierarchical organization of adult attachment, this study examined developmental origins of generalized and romantic attachment representations and their concurrent associations with romantic functioning. Participants (N = 112) in a 35-year prospective study completed the Adult Attachment Interview (AAI) and Current…
Descriptors: Self Concept, Attachment Behavior, Child Development, Statistical Analysis
Beijersbergen, Marielle D.; Bakermans-Kranenburg, Marian J.; van IJzendoorn, Marinus H.; Juffer, Femmie – Child Development, 2008
The current study examined whether adolescents' attachment representations were associated with differences in emotion regulation during the Adult Attachment Interview (AAI; C. George, N. Kaplan, & M. Main, 1996) and during a mother-adolescent conflict interaction task (Family Interaction Task [FIT]; J. P. Allen et al., 2003). Participants…
Descriptors: Conflict, Attachment Behavior, Adolescents, Parent Child Relationship
Roisman, Glenn I.; Fortuna, Keren; Holland, Ashley – Child Development, 2006
Recent longitudinal data suggest that retrospectively defined earned-secures are not more likely than continuous-secures to have been anxiously attached to their mothers in infancy and indeed experience high-quality maternal parenting in childhood. Such findings leave unanswered the question of why earned-secures report negative childhood…
Descriptors: Attachment Behavior, Mothers, Parent Child Relationship, Security (Psychology)
Peer reviewedCrowell, Judith A.; And Others – Child Development, 1996
Examined discriminant validity of the Adult Attachment Interview (AAI) vis-a-vis intelligence, social desirability, discourse style, and general social adjustment. Subjects were 53 native-English-speaking, married women with preschool children. Found modest but significant correlations between IQ scores and social adjustment. Found no relation…
Descriptors: Attachment Behavior, Intelligence Quotient, Mothers, Social Adjustment
Peer reviewedDozier, Mary; Kobak, R. Rogers – Child Development, 1992
Monitored skin conductance of college students while they recalled experiences of separation, rejection, and threat from parents. Students who diverted attention from attachment information to deal with attachment-related issues showed increases in skin conductance levels from baseline. (BC)
Descriptors: Attachment Behavior, College Students, Inhibition, Parent Child Relationship
Allen, Joseph P.; Porter, Maryfrances; McFarland, Christy; McElhaney, Kathleen Boykin; Marsh, Penny – Child Development, 2007
The relation of attachment security to multiple domains of psychosocial functioning was examined in a community sample of 167 early adolescents. Security of attachment organization, assessed using the Adult Attachment Interview, was linked to success in establishing autonomy while maintaining a sense of relatedness both with fathers and with…
Descriptors: Early Adolescents, Depression (Psychology), Attachment Behavior, Correlation
Peer reviewedBenoit, Diane; Parker, Kevin C. H. – Child Development, 1994
The stability of adult attachment and transmission of attachment across 3 generations were examined in a longitudinal study of 96 infants, their mothers, and maternal grandmothers. The study found that mothers' Adult Attachment Interview (AAI) classifications were stable over 12 months in 90% of mothers and 73% of grandmothers, using the AAI's…
Descriptors: Attachment Behavior, Foreign Countries, Grandparents, Infants
Peer reviewedFonagy, Peter; And Others – Child Development, 1991
The Adult Attachment Interview (AAI) was administered to 96 expecting mothers. In a one-year followup, mothers were seen with their child in the Strange Situation procedure. Maternal representations of attachment from the AAI predicted infant-mother attachment patterns in the Strange Situation. (BC)
Descriptors: Attachment Behavior, Early Experience, Foreign Countries, Infants
Peer reviewedKobak, R. Rogers; And Others – Child Development, 1993
Correlated teens' strategies for regulating their attachment to their mothers as measured by the Adult Attachment Interview, and emotion regulation during teen-mother problem solving. Teens with secure strategies engaged in problem-solving discussions characterized by less dysfunctional anger and less avoidance of problem solving than other teens.…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Anxiety, Attachment Behavior, Behavior Development
