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Publication Date: 2022
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An Empirical Test of Prototype and Revisionist Models of Attachment Stability and Change from Middle Childhood to Adolescence: A 6-Year Longitudinal Study
Child Development, v93 n1 p225-236 Jan-Feb 2022
We examined the prototype v. revisionist models of attachment stability with a five-wave, 6-year, longitudinal study of attachment security from middle childhood to adolescence in a White Western European sample (N = 157; Wave 1 M[subscript age] = 10.91, SD = 0.87; 52% female). Attachment was assessed using both questionnaire (Experiences in Close Relationships) and narrative-based measures (Attachment Script Assessment). In addition, a set of potential moderators of prototype-like stability were examined. Results indicated that data from both attachment assessments best fit the prototype model. Moderator analyses indicated that male sex significantly undermined the influence of an attachment prototype and parent-child conflict and parental divorce enhanced the influence of an attachment prototype on stability.
Descriptors: Models, Attachment Behavior, Children, Adolescents, Security (Psychology), Child Development, Whites, Foreign Countries, Interpersonal Relationship, Gender Differences, Parent Child Relationship, Conflict, Divorce
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