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Attachment and development: A prospective, longitudinal study from birth to adulthood

Sroufe, L. Alan·2005·Attachment & Human Development
DOI 10.1080/14616730500365928
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There is much to digest in a 30 year longitudinal study of the developing person (Sroufe, Egeland, Carlson, & Collins, 2005a). The following paper summarizes some key points regarding the place of infant attachment in the developmental course. It is argued that understanding the role of attachment entails grasping the organizational nature of the attachment construct and embracing a non-linear transactional model. Using such concepts, attachment history was shown in the Minnesota study to be clearly related to the growth of self-reliance, the capacity for emotional regulation, and the emergence and course of social competence, among other things. Moreover, specific patterns of attachment had implications for both normal development and pathology. Even more important than such linkages, however, study of the place of early attachment in later adaptation reveals much about developmental processes underlying both continuity and change. Findings are over-viewed concerning the complex links between attachment and ultimate outcomes and the preservation of early patterns even during times of change. In all, these findings have implications both for future research and for clinical application.

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  • Sroufe (2005) found that quality of attachment was most predictive for children who lived in a consistent quality of environment across childhood.

    “For example, Sroufe (2005) found that quality of attachment was most predictive for children who lived in a consistent quality of environment across childhood.”

    From The effects of severe psychosocial deprivation and foster care intervention on cognitive development at 8 years of age: findings from the Bucharest Early Intervention Project (2011) · cites this paper as Sroufe (2005)

  • In combination with positive experiences inside and outside the home, positive developmental relationships build strong brain architecture and are necessary for developing the affective, cognitive, social, emotional, and behavioral competencies foundational to development and learning, including language development.

    “In combination with positive (and positively perceived) experiences inside and outside the home (Center on the Developing Child, 2016), such relationships build strong brain architecture and are necessary for developing the affective, cognitive, social, emotional, and behavioral competencies foundational to development and learning-including development and learning that we often take for granted,”

    From Malleability, plasticity, and individuality: How children learn and develop in context<sup>1</sup> (2019) · cites this paper as Sroufe, 2005

  • The child-caregiver relationship continues to be an important influence as children develop, and key adults have the capacity to attune to, reorient attachment to, and establish positive relationships with children and youth well into adulthood.

    “The child-caregiver relationship continues to be an important influence as children develop (e.g., Sroufe, 2005), and key adults-parents, teachers, and other providers-have the capacity to attune to, reorient attachment to, and establish positive relationships with children and youth well into adulthood”

    From Malleability, plasticity, and individuality: How children learn and develop in context<sup>1</sup> (2019) · cites this paper as Sroufe, 2005

  • The development of a secure attachment between the child and a protective primary caregiver is particularly relevant to facilitate adaptive emotional and behavioral responses to stressful events.

    “it appears particularly relevant the development of a secure attachment between the child and a protective primary caregiver, in order to facilitate adaptive emotional and behavioral responses to stressful events [35]”

    From Prevention and early intervention in youth mental health: is it time for a multidisciplinary and trans-diagnostic model for care? (2020) · cites this paper as [35]

  • Such overarching involvement of OT in social and affiliative processes is thought to stem from the hormone's central involvement in the formation of the parent-infant bond, which, in turn, enhances physiological and behavioral systems that underpin human social engagement throughout life.

    “Such overarching involvement of OT in social and affiliative processes is thought to stem from the hormone's central involvement in the formation of the parent-infant bond, which, in turn, enhances physiological and behavioral systems that underpin human social engagement throughout life (3,26,27).”

    From Oxytocin administration to parent enhances infant physiological and behavioral readiness for social engagement (2012) · cites this paper as [27]

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Authors
Sroufe, L. A.
Affiliations
University of Minnesota (US)
Corresponding author
Sroufe, L. Alan
ORCID
Sroufe, L. Alan
Venue
Attachment & Human Development
Publisher
Informa UK Limited
Published
2005-12
Volume
7
Issue
4
Pages
349-367
ISSN
  • 1461-6734 (ISSN-L)
  • 1469-2988
DOI
10.1080/14616730500365928
OpenAlex
W2171923552
Cited by
1,685
References
49
Citations by year
2026: 97 · 2025: 106 · 2024: 84 · 2023: 103 · 2022: 100 · 2021: 109 · 2020: 119 · 2019: 113 · 2018: 104 · 2017: 111 · 2016: 111 · 2015: 91 · 2014: 95 · 2013: 86 · 2012: 70
FWCI
18.74
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
closed
Locations
  • Attachment & Human Development (publishedVersion)
  • PubMed (publishedVersion)
Funders
National Institute of Mental Health (MH40864-22, R01MH040864)
Topics
  • Social Sciences › Psychology › Social Psychology › Attachment and Relationship Dynamics
  • Social Sciences › Psychology › Clinical Psychology › Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development
  • Social Sciences › Psychology › Clinical Psychology › Psychoanalysis and Psychopathology Research
Keywords
infant attachment, attachment history, self-reliance, emotion regulation, social competence, developmental pathology
MeSH terms
Adaptation, Psychological, Adolescent, Adult, Age Factors, Child, Child, Preschool, Humans, Human Development, Infant, Infant, Newborn, Object Attachment, Parent-Child Relations, Personality Development, Prospective Studies, Time Factors, Parturition

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