TY - JOUR
T1 - Quality of attachment in a sample of 1‐year‐old Australian children
AU - Barnett, Bryanne
AU - Blignault, Ilse
AU - Holmes, Sally
AU - Payne, Alison
AU - Parker, Gordon
PY - 1987
Y1 - 1987
N2 - Ainsworth's Strange Situation Procedure was used to assess attachment in 134 mother-infant pairs in an Australian nonclinical sample. Seventy percent of the infants were rated as securely attached at 1 year of age. The mothers were primiparas classified according to their trait anxiety level, into high-, moderate-, and low-anxiety groups. Interventions designed to lower anxiety were offered for 12 months to two subgroups of the high-anxiety mothers. The hypotheses that (1) high-anxiety mothers would have anxiously attached infants and (2) lowering of the mother's (state) anxiety level would result in more secure infant attachment, were not upheld.
AB - Ainsworth's Strange Situation Procedure was used to assess attachment in 134 mother-infant pairs in an Australian nonclinical sample. Seventy percent of the infants were rated as securely attached at 1 year of age. The mothers were primiparas classified according to their trait anxiety level, into high-, moderate-, and low-anxiety groups. Interventions designed to lower anxiety were offered for 12 months to two subgroups of the high-anxiety mothers. The hypotheses that (1) high-anxiety mothers would have anxiously attached infants and (2) lowering of the mother's (state) anxiety level would result in more secure infant attachment, were not upheld.
KW - Australia
KW - anxiety
KW - attachment behavior in children
KW - child psychology
UR - http://handle.westernsydney.edu.au:8081/1959.7/uws:47328
U2 - 10.1097/00004583-198705000-00003
DO - 10.1097/00004583-198705000-00003
M3 - Article
SN - 1527-5418
SN - 0890-8567
VL - 26
SP - 303
EP - 307
JO - Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry
JF - Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry
IS - 3
ER -