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Patterns of Attachment: A Psychological Study of the Strange Situation

by Mary D. Salter Ainsworth, Mary C. Blehar, Sally Wall, Everett Waters

Pages: 391

Contributors: Mary D. Salter Ainsworth,Mary C. Blehar,Sally Wall,Everett Waters

Publisher: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates

Place of Publication: Hillsdale, NJ

Publication Year: 1978

Subjects: Attachment Behavior In Children,Mother And Infant

Table of Contents

Title Page

Contents

Preface

Acknowledgments

I: Introduction

1: Theoretical Background

II: Method

2: Procedures

3: Measures and Methods of Assessment

III: Results

4: Descriptive Account of Behavior in Each Episode

5: Normative Trends Across Episodes

6: An Examination of The Classificatory System: A Multiple Discriminant Function Analysis

7: Relationships Between Infant Behavior in the Strange Situation and at Home

8: Relationships Between Infant Behavior in the Strange Situation and Maternal Behavior at Home

9: A Review of Strange-Situation Studies of One-Year-Olds

10: Review of Strange-Situation Studies of Two- to Four-Year Olds

11: The Effects of Repetition of the Strange Situation

12: Subgroups and Their Usefulness

IV: Discussion

13: Discussion of Normative Issues

14: Individual Differences: In Light of Contrasting Paradigms

15: An Interpretation of Individual Differences

Appendix I: Instructions to the Mother

Appendix II: Instructions for Coding and Tabulating Frequency II of Behaviors

Appendix III: Scoring System for Interactive Behaviors

Appendix IV: Supplementary Statistical Findings

References

Indexes

Author Index

Subject Index

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