After decades of research on early attachment relationships, questions remain concerning
whether the evidence supports claims made by attachment theory, in particular, that …

Highlights•Adult attachment appears to have its origins in early caregiving experiences.•
Attachment styles appear to be more malleable in childhood and adolescence than in …

Attachment is an inborn behavioral system that is biologically driven and essential for
survival. During child development, individual differences in (in) secure attachment emerge …

THE MEASUREMENT OF ATTACHMENT SECURITY AND Page 1 1 THE MEASUREMENT
OF ATTACHMENT SECURITY AND RELATED CONSTRUCTS IN INFANCY AND EARLY …

Contrary to the substantial amount of research on infant, preschool, adolescent, and adult
attachment, middle childhood has long been neglected by the international attachment …

Sociocultural theories of development privilege the role of parent–child conversation as a
critical interpersonal context for cognitive and socioemotional development. Research on …

This observational study addressed a critical gap in the understanding of the precursors of
infant attachment by examining whether a new conceptualization of maternal caregiving …

Highlights•Attachment representations in adulthood take the form of a cognitive
script.•Secure base script knowledge develops based on the quality of early caregiving.•The …

Retrospective self-report assessments of adults' childhood experiences with their parents
are widely employed in psychological science, but such assessments are rarely validated …

Recent work examining the content and organization of attachment representations
suggests that 1 way in which we represent the attachment relationship is in the form of a …