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Profiles of Peer Competence in the Preschool: Interrelations between Measures, Influence of Social Ecology, and Relation to Attachment History.
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LaFreniere, Peter J.; Sroufe, L. Alan – Developmental Psychology, 1985
Peer competence in preschool children in two classes was assessed via (a) teacher rankings of social competence, (b) peer sociometrics, and behavioral measures of (c) social participation, and others. Affective expression and social behavior were temporally stable and consistent across contexts for both classes; however, patterns of…
Descriptors: Affective Behavior, Attachment Behavior, Early Childhood Education, Interpersonal Competence
Attachment Categories as Reflections of Multiple Dimensions: Comment on Fraley and Spieker (2003).
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Sroufe, L. Alan – Developmental Psychology, 2003
Ainsworth's system of classifying attachment patterns will not be easily displaced primarily because of difficulties involved in a dimensional approach. Problems include the number of dimensions involved, need to develop reliable scales, and need to describe how behavior changes across age and in the Strange Situation. Only when an alternative…
Descriptors: Attachment Behavior, Behavior Patterns, Individual Differences, Infant Behavior