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The Stability of Attachment Security from Infancy to Adolescence and Early Adulthood: General Introduction
Abstract
Current attachment theory hypothesizes that attachment security during infancy influences individual differences in adult representations of attachment. We present three long-term longitudinal studies using three different samples relevant to this hypothesis. Each study assesses infant attachment by using the Ainsworth Strange Situation and adult attachment by using the Berkeley Adult Attachment Interview (AAI). Attachment security was significantly stable in the first two studies. Discontinuity in all three studies was related to negative life events and circumstances. Comparison of the results across these complementary studies affords a degree of replication and sheds light on alternative interpretations. Various mechanisms underlying the stability and instability of attachment security are discussed.
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- Waters, E., Hamilton, C. E., & Weinfield, N. S.
- Venue
- Child Development
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press (OUP)
- Published
- 2000-05-01
- Volume
- 71
- Issue
- 3
- Pages
- 678-683
- ISSN
- 0009-3920 (ISSN-L)
- 1467-8624
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- W2113045660
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- 472
- References
- 53
- FWCI
- 23.23
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
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