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Individual Variation in Attachment Security and Strange Situation Behavior: The Role of Maternal and Infant Temperament.
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Weber, Ruth A.; And Others – Child Development, 1986
Results suggest that various aspects of Strange Situation behavior are related to both maternal and infant temperament, and that maternal temperament is a predictor of attachment security, particularly for Type A mother-avoidant infants. (Author/RH)
Descriptors: Attachment Behavior, Individual Differences, Infants, Mothers
Infant Temperament, Mother's Mode of Interaction, and Attachment in Japan: An Interim Report.
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Miyake, Kazuo; And Others – Monographs of the Society for Research in Child Development, 1985
Investigates the possible relationships among the variables of infant's temperament, mother's mode of interaction, and the quality of the subsequent mother-infant attachment. (Author/NH)
Descriptors: Attachment Behavior, Infants, Longitudinal Studies, Mothers
Social Referencing at Ten Months: A Second-Order Effect on Infants' Responses to Strangers.
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Feinman, Saul; Lewis, Michael – Child Development, 1983
A total of 87 infants 10 months of age received, either directly or indirectly, a positive nonverbal message, a neutral nonverbal message, or no message about a stranger. Infants, especially those with easy temperaments, were friendlier to the stranger when mothers had spoken positively, but only when the message was directly communicated.…
Descriptors: Cognitive Ability, Communication (Thought Transfer), Infant Behavior, Infants
Maternal and Infant Temperamental Predictors of Attachment: A Meta-Analytic Review.
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Goldsmith, H. H.; Alansky, Jennifer A. – Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 1987
Examined extent to which infant-mother attachment could be predicted by mother interactional variables and infant proneness to distress. Meta-analysis indicated that sensitive, responsive maternal interaction predicted the security of attachment in Ainsworth and Wittig's "strange situation." Proneness to distress, a temperamental variable,…
Descriptors: Attachment Behavior, Infant Behavior, Infants, Interpersonal Relationship
Infant Irritability, Mother Responsiveness, and Social Support Influences on the Security of Infant-Mother Attachment.
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Crockenberg, Susan B. – Child Development, 1981
Results indicate that (1) social support is the best predictor of secure attachment and is most important for mothers with irritable babies, (2) maternal unresponsiveness is associated with resistance during reunion episodes and appears to be a mechanism through which anxious attachment develops, and (3) social support may mitigate the effects of…
Descriptors: Attachment Behavior, Individual Characteristics, Infants, Interviews
Emotional Determinants of Infant-Mother Attachment.
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Izard, Carroll E.; And Others – Child Development, 1991
Mothers' emotion and personality characteristics were assessed by behavior ratings and self-reports; infants' characteristics by maternal reports and objective coding. Security of infant-mother attachment in the Ainsworth Strange Situation was predicted by mothers' emotional experience, expressive behavior, and personality traits, and by infants'…
Descriptors: Attachment Behavior, Emotional Experience, Empathy, Infant Behavior
Research and Clinical Center for Child Development Annual Report, 1984-1985.
Miyake, Kazuo, Ed. – 1986
The seven articles in this annual report concern aspects of attachment, social interaction among parents and children, temperament, affective behavior, and/or research methodology. Aspects of attachment and temperament are addressed in Kazuo Miyake's study of the "Relation of Temperamental Disposition to Classification of Attachment,"…
Descriptors: Affective Behavior, Attachment Behavior, Child Development, Emotional Experience