Maternal and infant temperamental predictors of attachment: a meta-analytic review.
Maternal and infant temperamental predictors of attachment: a meta-analytic review.
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母婴依恋气质预测因素:荟萃分析综述。
DOI:
10.1037//0022-006x.55.6.805
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发表时间:
1987
影响因子:
5.9
通讯作者:
Alansky,JA
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作者:
Goldsmith,HH;Alansky,JA
Because of the possible implications of infant-mother attachment for later adjustment, we examined the extent to which it could be predicted by mother interactional variables and infant proneness to distress. The meta-analysis demonstrated that sensitive, responsive maternal interaction predicted the security of attachment in Ainsworth and Wittig's (1969)“strange situation.” However, the strength of the relation was less than many narrative reviews have suggested. Proneness to distress, which is conceptualized as a temperamental variable, predicted resistance, which is a behavioral pattern in the strange situation that is thought to indicate one variety of insecure attachment. The strength of this association was low but was roughly comparable to that in the maternal domain. In both the maternal and infant domains, we attempted to predict the effect sizes by study characteristics such as method of assessment, sample composition, and age of subjects at the time of study. The pattern of results highlights several continuing methodological problems in the field and suggests that additional explanantory concepts are needed.