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Attachment Behavior at Home and in the Laboratory: Q‐Sort Observations and Strange Situation Classifications of One‐Year‐Olds
Author(s) -
Vaughn Brian E.,
Waters Everett
Publication year - 1990
Publication title -
child development
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 3.103
H-Index - 257
eISSN - 1467-8624
pISSN - 0009-3920
DOI - 10.1111/j.1467-8624.1990.tb03578.x
Subject(s) - psychology , dependency (uml) , sort , set (abstract data type) , strange situation , descriptive statistics , emotional security , developmental psychology , interpretation (philosophy) , class (philosophy) , social psychology , statistics , attachment theory , arithmetic , computer science , artificial intelligence , mathematics , programming language
This article reports Attachment Q‐set data and Strange Situation classifications of 58 1‐year‐old middle‐class infants. Security, dependency, and sociability were scored from Q‐sort reports of home observations. The primary analyses involve comparisons between securely attached infants (Group B) and anxiously attached infants (Groups A and C combined). Additional analyses compare anxious‐resistant with anxious‐avoidant infants. Secure classification in the Strange Situation was associated with quality of secure‐base behavior at home (i.e., higher Q‐sort security scores) and with sociability, but not with dependency scores. Descriptive analyses of individual Q‐set items support the secure‐base interpretation of Strange Situation security classifications. Relations between home security scores and interactive behavior scores from the Strange Situation were also examined by multiple regression analysis.