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Secure attachment has been shown to act as a buffer to determinants of health among preschoolers, including stress and poverty. [10] One study supports that women with a secure attachment style had more positive feelings with regard to their adult relationships than women with insecure attachment styles.
Four different attachment classifications have been identified in children: secure attachment, anxious-ambivalent attachment, anxious-avoidant attachment, and disorganized attachment. Attachment theory has become the dominant theory used today in the study of infant and toddler behavior and in the fields of infant mental health, treatment of ...
The strength of a child's attachment behaviour in a given circumstance does not indicate the "strength" of the attachment bond. Some insecure children will routinely display very pronounced attachment behaviours, while many secure children find that there is no great need to engage in either intense or frequent shows of attachment behaviour. [49]
Disorganized attachment, which was later added to Ainsworth’s original three styles by researchers Mary Main and Judith Solomon, is a category that envelops the “Strange Situation” children ...
It was developed by Mary Ainsworth, a developmental psychologist [7] Originally it was devised to enable children to be classified into the attachment styles known as secure, anxious-avoidant and anxious-ambivalent. As research accumulated and atypical patterns of attachment became more apparent it was further developed by Main and Solomon in ...
Ainsworth researched the secure base phenomenon in her strange situation procedure in which an infant uses their mother as a secure base. [4] The attachment system provides the child with a sense of security in the form of this base, which supports exploration of the environment and hence independence. [7]
The strange situation is a procedure devised by Mary Ainsworth in the 1970s to observe attachment in children, that is relationships between a caregiver and child. It applies to children between the age of 9 to 30 months. Broadly speaking, the attachment styles were (1) secure and (2) insecure (ambivalent and avoidance).
Knowing if your partner has a secure, anxious, dismissive or fearful attachment style could help your relationship, therapist Alex Greenwald says. Incompatible attachment styles could hinder your ...