Correlates of Attachment at Age 3: Construct Validity of the Preschool Attachment Classification System
| Autor: | Chantal Cyr, Diane St-Laurent, Ellen Moss, Jean-François Bureau, Chantal Mongeau |
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| Rok vydání: | 2004 |
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Psychometrics media_common.quotation_subject education Personal distress Child Behavior Disorders Test validity Developmental psychology Life Change Events Child Rearing Surveys and Questionnaires Developmental and Educational Psychology Humans Psychology Family Life-span and Life-course Studies Object Attachment Demography media_common Observer Variation Child rearing Emotional security Reproducibility of Results Videotape Recording Construct validity Mother-Child Relations Child Preschool Female Psychosocial Follow-Up Studies |
| Zdroj: | Developmental Psychology. 40:323-334 |
| ISSN: | 1939-0599 0012-1649 |
| DOI: | 10.1037/0012-1649.40.3.323 |
| Popis: | This study examined correlates of attachment at age 3 to further validate preschool separation-reunion measures. Three-year-olds (N = 150) and their mothers participated in a separation-reunion protocol, the Preschool Attachment Classification System (PACS: J. Cassidy & R. S. Marvin with the MacArthur Working Group on Attachment, 1992), and a mother-child interaction session during a laboratory visit. Mothers also completed psychosocial measures and, along with teachers, evaluated child behavior problems. The secure and disorganized groups received, respectively, the highest and lowest interaction scores. Disorganized children showed a higher level of teacher-reported externalizing and internalizing problems than did secure children. Mothers of insecure children reported higher child externalizing (all insecure groups) and internalizing (avoidant group) scores, more personal distress related to emotional bonding (disorganized group), childrearing control (ambivalent group), and child hyperactivity (avoidant group). Results strongly support the validity of the PACS as a measure of attachment in 3-year-olds. |
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