The coherence of individual development: Early care, attachment, and subsequent developmental issues
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Infants derive security from their main caregiver and use that bond as a base for environmental exploration.
“Infants rely on their primary caregivers, typically mothers, to derive a sense of security and they use this relationship as a base from which to explore the environment (Sroufe, 1979).”
From Relational Interventions for Maltreated Children (2017) · cites this paper as Sroufe, 1979
Secure attachment develops when caregiving is sensitive, responsive, and predictable.
“Children develop a secure attachment when caregiving is sensitive, responsive, and predictable.(12–15)”
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- Authors
- Sroufe, L. A.
- Affiliations
- University of Minnesota (US)
- Corresponding author
- Sroufe, L. Alan
- ORCID
- Sroufe, L. Alan
- Venue
- American Psychologist
- Published
- 1979-10
- Volume
- 34
- Issue
- 10
- Pages
- 834-841
- ISSN
- 0003-066X (ISSN-L)
- 1935-990X
- OpenAlex
- W2081839422
- Cited by
- 793
- References
- 12
- Citations by year
- 2026: 6 · 2025: 6 · 2024: 7 · 2023: 8 · 2022: 11 · 2021: 8 · 2020: 67 · 2019: 14 · 2018: 11 · 2017: 15 · 2016: 14 · 2015: 26 · 2014: 10 · 2013: 22 · 2012: 23
- FWCI
- 22.01
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- American Psychologist (publishedVersion)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Social Psychology › Attachment and Relationship Dynamics
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Clinical Psychology › Psychoanalysis and Psychopathology Research
- Social Sciences › Education › Early Childhood Education and Development
- Keywords
- human development, early care, attachment, developmental problems, developmental continuity, early childhood caregiving
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