Compared expressions of attachment relationships in preterm and full-term infants and their mothers at home at 8 and 12 months of age and in the Strange Situation at 18 months. Found 84% concordance in the distinctions between secure and nonsecure classifications of the mother-infant relationship made at home at 12 months and in the Strange…

Examines attachment prototype, attachment-related feelings about conflict, style of expressing conflict, and conflict tactics using self-report questionnaires from 188 volunteer college students. Analysis indicated that persons who endorsed secure attachment reported feeling less threat from arguing; persons endorsing dismissing attachment…

Examines two core assumptions of attachment theory: internal working models of attachment should increase in stability during development, and attachment is related to the adaptive solution of stage-salient issues, in adolescence, specifically to identity formation. Results show secure attachment representation was positively associated with the…

Examines the relationship between separation- individuation, adult attachment styles, and college adjustment. Results reveal that college adjustment was positively associated with secure adult attachment and counterindicated by fearful and preoccupied attachments. Implications for counseling practice and directions for future research are…

Reviews literature relating to naturalistic and laboratory studies of primates, human bonding, family systems theory, psychoanalytic notions of multiple inner representations, and pathological parenting in child abuse and neglect. Attempts to understand uniqueness of parent-child attachments and unique grief experienced at death of child. Proposes…

Describes investigation exploring value of attachment theory in describing parental relationships of adolescents attending trade and technical schools. Students described positive attachments to parents, including facilitating autonomy and providing emotional support. For males, attachment ratings were negatively correlated with nearness of school…

Examined attachment relationships in infant-mother dyads. Dyads that were developing secure attachments interacted in a mutually rewarding manner. Among dyads developing insecure relationships, avoidant dyads were characterized by maternal intrusiveness, and resistant dyads by interactions in which mothers were underinvolved and inconsistent. (BC)

Explores possible relationships between adult attachment and violence among intimates. Describes insecure attachment patterns (Avoidant and Anxious/ambivalent), relating each to specific manifestations of courtship violence in dyadic interaction. Sees concepts contributing to understanding of courtship violence as exaggerated form of behavior…

Training in death education and grief counseling is not typically a part of a counselor's curriculum, yet the odds of a counselor seeing people in various stages of grieving are great. Beginning with Bowlby's attachment theory, this article provides an overview of the grieving process and what counselors should know. (Author/MKA)

Examined the influence of attachment style, affect, and appraisals as predictors of coping strategies in the context of conflict with significant others. Results from 73 late adolescent females indicate that general and specific attachment style, affect, and appraisals significantly predict coping strategies. (SLD)

Using the framework of Attachment Theory, and following on from Part 1, further patterns of Attachment Behaviour are described and linked to responses in the classroom. The Avoidant and Disorganized patterns are described and linked to responses in the classroom to the teacher and to the educational task illustrated by examples from practice.…

Adults' perceptions provide information about the emotional meaning of infant facial expressions. This study asks whether similar facial movements influence adult perceptions of emotional intensity in both infant positive (smile) and negative (cry face) facial expressions. Ninety-five college students rated a series of naturally occurring and…

The intent of this study was to examine the development of peer interaction in low-income Mexican-heritage families in the United States. Eighty-eight children (44 girls) were observed and mothers interviewed when children were 14, 24, 36, and 54 months old. We used the Attachment Q-Set (Waters, 1990), the Peer Play Scale (Howes & Matheson, 1992),…

Findings from two research syntheses of the relationship between caregiver sensitivity and secure infant attachment and one research synthesis of factors associated with increased caregiver use of a sensitive interactional style are presented. The main focus of analysis was the extent to which different measures of caregiver contingent social…

This study examined the extent to which the quality of parent and peer attachments related to early adolescents' life satisfaction (LS), whether peer attachment served as a mediator between parent attachment and LS, and potential gender differences. Total of 587 middle school students in grades 6 through 8 participated. Although both parent and…