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Broderick, Carlfred B. – Journal of Marriage and the Family, 1971
The review presents a brief and somewhat personal and impressionistic description of the status of the field in 1960, deals with the fortunes of some of the general broadguage theories and conceptual frameworks which have dominated the family literature over the decade, and offers survey of some of the substantive theories which dealt with more…
Descriptors: Behavior Patterns, Dating (Social), Family (Sociological Unit), Family Relationship

Fraley, R. Chris; Spieker, Susan J. – Developmental Psychology, 2003
This study applied Meehl's taxometric techniques for distinguishing latent types from late continua to Strange Situation data on 1,139 fifteen-month-olds from the NICHD Study of Early Child Care. Results indicated that variation in attachment patterns was largely continuous, not categorical. Implications of dimensional models for individual…
Descriptors: Attachment Behavior, Behavior Patterns, Individual Differences, Infant Behavior

Cummings, E. Mark – Developmental Psychology, 2003
Advocates renewed efforts toward assessing attachment on a single continuum of emotional security. Contends that theory is essential to guide attachment assessment and that the constructs of secure base and emotional security provide the needed conceptual foundation. Addresses challenges to the scoring of attachment on a security continuum.…
Descriptors: Attachment Behavior, Behavior Patterns, Individual Differences, Infant Behavior
Dalrymple, Nancy J. – 1992
This self-instructional module is intended to provide basic information on autism and can be used alone or with supplementary videos. The module is divided into short sections, with each section including review questions and with a self-test (and answer key) on the whole module. After introductory material on the module's purpose and use and an…
Descriptors: Autism, Behavior Patterns, Clinical Diagnosis, Definitions
Hopkins, John B. – 1976
In this study, 104 primarily indigent primiparous mothers from urban and rural areas and their healthy, full-term neonates were placed in one of four conditions during the normal postpartum lying-in period. Conditions were control, initial contact, rooming-in, and initial contact plus rooming-in. Dependent variables consisted of scores on the…
Descriptors: Behavior Patterns, Hypothesis Testing, Individual Characteristics, Interaction
Continuity and Change in the Measurement of Infant Attachment: Comment on Fraley and Spieker (2003).

Cassidy, Jude – Developmental Psychology, 2003
Highlights usefulness of the categorical approach to measuring infant attachment by reviewing some major advances in the field that have been fostered by that approach. Advances include identification of the disorganized attachment group, development of the concept of conditional behavior strategies, creation of systems for coding attachment…
Descriptors: Attachment Behavior, Behavior Patterns, Individual Differences, Infant Behavior

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

Waters, Everett; Beauchaine, Theodore P. – Developmental Psychology, 2003
Focuses on three questions related to attachment theory: whether it requires distinct patterns of attachment, how taxonomic analysis contributes to understanding individual differences in attachment security, and whether attachment theorists are asking the right questions. Asserts that attachment theory is indifferent to the structure of…
Descriptors: Attachment Behavior, Behavior Patterns, Individual Differences, Infant Behavior

Fraley, R. Chris; Spieker, Susan J. – Developmental Psychology, 2003
Discusses four questions concerning commentaries on the taxometric analysis of Strange Situation behavior related to: (1) whether the categorical model of attachment facilitates theoretical and empirical innovations; (2) whether and how a continuum of security fits into the two-dimensional model; (3) the role of types and dimensions in…
Descriptors: Attachment Behavior, Behavior Patterns, Individual Differences, Infant Behavior