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Attachment from Infancy to Early Adulthood in a High-Risk Sample: Continuity, Discontinuity, and Their Correlates

Weinfield, Nancy S, Sroufe, L Alan, Egeland, Byron·2000·Child Development
DOI 10.1111/1467-8624.00178
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This study explores the stability of attachment security and representations from infancy to early adulthood in a sample chosen originally for poverty and high risk for poor developmental outcomes. Participants for this study were 57 young adults who are part of an ongoing prospective study of development and adaptation in a high-risk sample. Attachment was assessed during infancy by using the Ainsworth Strange Situation (Ainsworth & Wittig) and at age 19 by using the Berkeley Adult Attachment Interview (George, Kaplan, & Main). Possible correlates of continuity and discontinuity in attachment were drawn from assessments of the participants and their mothers over the course of the study. Results provided no evidence for significant continuity between infant and adult attachment in this sample, with many participants transitioning to insecurity. The evidence, however, indicated that there might be lawful discontinuity. Analyses of correlates of continuity and discontinuity in attachment classification from infancy to adulthood indicated that the continuous and discontinuous groups were differentiated on the basis of child maltreatment, maternal depression, and family functioning in early adolescence. These results provide evidence that although attachment has been found to be stable over time in other samples, attachment representations are vulnerable to difficult and chaotic life experiences.

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Authors
Weinfield, N. S., Sroufe, L. A., & Egeland, B.
Affiliations
  • University of Virginia (US)
  • University of Minnesota (US)
ORCID
Venue
Child Development
Publisher
Oxford University Press (OUP)
Published
2000-05-01
Volume
71
Issue
3
Pages
695-702
ISSN
  • 0009-3920 (ISSN-L)
  • 1467-8624
DOI
10.1111/1467-8624.00178
OpenAlex
W1982152688
Cited by
570
References
25
Citations by year
2026: 4 · 2025: 8 · 2024: 8 · 2023: 13 · 2022: 9 · 2021: 11 · 2020: 17 · 2019: 23 · 2018: 19 · 2017: 19 · 2016: 31 · 2015: 26 · 2014: 41 · 2013: 35 · 2012: 39
FWCI
24.10
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
closed
Licence
Locations
  • Child Development (publishedVersion)
  • PubMed (publishedVersion)
Funders
  • University of Minnesota
  • National Institute of Mental Health (MH40864-08, 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
attachment security, infant attachment, adult attachment, vulnerable children, poverty, child abuse, maternal depression, family functioning, early adolescence, attachment representations, Ainsworth Strange Situation, Adult Attachment Interview
MeSH terms
Adolescent, Adult, Child, Child, Preschool, Female, Follow-Up Studies, Humans, Infant, Interpersonal Relations, Life Change Events, Male, Mother-Child Relations, Mothers, Object Attachment, Prospective Studies, Stress, Psychological

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