NotesFAQContact Us
Collection
Advanced
Search Tips
Showing all 7 results Save | Export
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Lewis, Michael; And Others – Developmental Psychology, 1985
Compares attachment relationships of infants at 12 months to their visual self-recognition at both 18 and 24 months. Individual differences in early attachment relations were related to later self-recognition. In particular, insecurely attached infants showed a trend toward earlier self-recognition than did securely attached infants. (Author/NH)
Descriptors: Attachment Behavior, Individual Differences, Infants, Longitudinal Studies
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Weber, Ruth A.; And Others – Child Development, 1986
Results suggest that various aspects of Strange Situation behavior are related to both maternal and infant temperament, and that maternal temperament is a predictor of attachment security, particularly for Type A mother-avoidant infants. (Author/RH)
Descriptors: Attachment Behavior, Individual Differences, Infants, Mothers
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Bretherton, Inge – Monographs of the Society for Research in Child Development, 1985
Provides overview of attachment theory as parented by John Bowlby in "Attachment and Loss". Uses two major concepts from this work to interpret refinements and elaborations of attachment theory attibuted to Mary Ainsworth. Considers how recent insights into development of socioemotional understanding and development of event…
Descriptors: Attachment Behavior, Individual Differences, Infants, Models
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Belsky, Jay; And Others – Child Development, 1984
To test hypotheses concerning interactional histories associated with variation in quality of infant-mother attachment, data were gathered during naturalistic home observations of 60 infants 1, 3, and 9 months of age. Responses were elicited on the Ainsworth and Wittig strange situations. Results concerned mothers' relatively greater influence in…
Descriptors: Attachment Behavior, Emotional Response, Individual Differences, Infant Behavior
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Kobak, R. Rogers; Sceery, Amy – Child Development, 1988
Examines the coherence of attachment organization during late adolescence in a sample of 53 college freshmen. Three kinds of working models were assessed with the Adult Attachment Interview: Dismissing of Attachment, Secure, and Preoccupied with Attachment. Findings are interpreted in terms of different styles of affect regulation and…
Descriptors: Adjustment (to Environment), Affective Behavior, Attachment Behavior, College Freshmen
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Takahashi, Keiko – Developmental Psychology, 1986
Examines the strange-situation procedure among Japanese mother-infant pairs and analyzes their behavior by comparing them with the data reported in the book by M.S. Ainsworth and others. (HOD)
Descriptors: Attachment Behavior, Behavior Patterns, Cross Cultural Studies, Cultural Differences
Armsden, Gay G.; Greenberg, Mark T. – 1983
The development and validation of the Inventory of Parent and Peer Attachment (IPPA), a self-report instrument for use with adolescents, is described. Item content of the instrument was suggested by Bowlby's theoretical formulations concerning the nature of feelings toward attachment figures. A hierarchical regression model was employed to…
Descriptors: Adjustment (to Environment), Adolescents, Affective Behavior, Attachment Behavior