CATEGORIES OF RESPONSE TO REUNION WITH THE PARENT AT AGE 6 - PREDICTABLE FROM INFANT ATTACHMENT CLASSIFICATIONS AND STABLE OVER A 1-MONTH PERIOD
CATEGORIES OF RESPONSE TO REUNION WITH THE PARENT AT AGE 6 - PREDICTABLE FROM INFANT ATTACHMENT CLASSIFICATIONS AND STABLE OVER A 1-MONTH PERIOD
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DOI:
10.1037/0012-1649.24.3.415
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发表时间:
1988-05-01
影响因子:
4
通讯作者:
CASSIDY, J
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作者:
MAIN, M;CASSIDY, J
We describe the development of a system for classifying attachment organization at age 6 on the basis of study of children''s responses to unstructured reunions with parents in a laboratory setting. In a study of 33 families in Berkeley, California, sixth-year attachment classifications to mother were found to be highly predictable from infancy attachment classifications to mother (84%), with children secure in infancy identified as secure on reunion at age 6 (Group B); children insecure-avoidant in infancy identified as insecure-avoidant (Group A); and children who were insecure-disorganized/disoriented identified as controlling of the parent (Group D). Lower predictability (61%) was found for attachment to father. An insecure-ambivalent (Group C) sixth-year classification was developed following the Berkeley study. In a second study of child-mother dyads conducted in Charlottesville, Virginia (N = 50), 62% of children were stable in (A, B, C, and D) classification across a 1-month interval. When D children were reassigned to their best-fitting alternative A, B, or C categories, stability was high both for major classifications (A+B+C = 86%) and for seven subclassifications (A1, A2, B1/B2, B3, B4, C1, C2 = 76%). Avoidance of the mother was stable across both the 5-year and the 1-month periods.