The Organization of Attachment Relationships: Maturation, Culture, and Context

by Edited by Patricia McKinsey Crittenden , Angelika Hartl Claussen

• ISBN13: 9780521580021
• ISBN10: 0521580021
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2000-04-13
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Summary

Quality of attachment has been a central variable in developmental research during the last two decades. However, even though attachment is relevant to all cultures and humans of all ages, the majority of research has focused on middle class infants in Anglicized cultures. Further, the function of attachment to protect humans from danger has been overlooked in a focus on the advantages of safety and security. This volume presents new theory on attachment that broadens its range to ages beyond infancy, to many cultures and to endangered populations, including both psychopathological individuals and those living in threatening contexts. The intent is to provide new theory and methods to better understand human variation in interpersonal and cultural self-protective strategies. The expansion of the attachment classificatory system beyond its roots in infancy and to a broad range of cultures differentiates this volume from other work on attachment.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	ix
Contributors	xi
Introduction	1	(12)
Patricia McKinsey Crittenden
PART I: MATERNAL SENSITIVITY
Parents and Toddlers at Play: Evidence for Separate Qualitative Functioning of the Play and the Attachment System	13	(25)
Karin Grossmann
Klaus E. Grossmann
Parent-Child Synchrony of Interaction	38	(23)
Grazia Maria Fava Vizziello
Cristina Ferrero
Marina Musicco
Maternal Sensitivity and Attachment in East German and Russian Family Networks	61	(14)
Lieselotte Ahnert
Tatjana Meischner
Alfred Schmidt
Behavior Problems in Swedish Four-year-olds: The Importance of Maternal Sensitivity and Social Context	75	(22)
Gunilla Bohlin
Berit Hagekull
Patterns of Attachment in Young Egyptian Children	97	(18)
Anna von der Lippe
Patricia McKinsey Crittenden
Maternal Sensitivity	115	(10)
Angelika Hartl Claussen
Patricia McKinsey Crittenden
PART II: CONTEXT
Attachment in Finnish Twins	125	(16)
Irma Moilanen
Anne Kunelius
Tiina Tirkkonen
Patricia McKinsey Crittenden
Characteristics of Attachment Behavior in Institution-reared Children	141	(30)
Stanislawa Lis
Attachment in Children Adopted from Romanian Orphanages: Two Case Studies	171	(19)
Kim Chisholm
Maternal Depression and Child-Mother Attachment in the First Three Years: A View from the Intermountain West	190	(24)
Douglas M. Teti
Relations Among Mothers' Dispositional Representations of Parenting	214	(20)
Patricia McKinsey Crittenden
Claudia Lang
Angelika Hartl Claussen
Mary F. Partridge
Adaptation to Varied Environments	234	(17)
Patricia McKinsey Crittenden
Angelika Hartl Claussen
PART III: MATURATION
Stability and Change in Infant-Mother Attachment in the Second Year of Life: Relations to Parenting Quality and Varying Degrees of Day-Care Experience	251	(26)
Hellgard Rauh
Ute Ziegenhain
Bernd Muller
Lex Wijnroks
Change and Continuity in Ambivalent Attachment Relationships from Infancy through Adolescence	277	(23)
Sydney L. Hans
Victor J. Bernstein
Belinda E. Sims
Attachment Models, Peer Interaction Behavior, and Feelings about the Self: Indications of Maladjustment in Dismissing/Preoccupied (Ds/E) Adolescents	300	(25)
Katherine A. Black
Elizabeth Jaeger
Kathleen McCartney
Patricia McKinsey Crittenden
Attachment Representation in Adolescence and Adulthood: Exploring Some Intergenerational and Intercultural Issues	325	(18)
Isabel Soares
Elisabeth Fremmer-Bombik
Klaus E. Grossmann
M. Carolina Silva
A Dynamic-Maturational Approach to Continuity and Change in Pattern of Attachment	343	(15)
Patricia McKinsey Crittenden
A Dynamic-Maturational Exploration of the Meaning of Security and Adaptation: Empirical, Cultural, and Theoretical Considerations	358	(27)
Patricia McKinsey Crittenden
References	385	(32)
Index	417