Attachment behavior at home and in the laboratory: Q-sort observations and strange situation classifications of one-year-olds.
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.
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Department of Family & Child Development, Auburn University, AL 36849.
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D001143:Arousal; D003858:Dependency, Psychological; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D008137:Longitudinal Studies; D009034:Mother-Child Relations; D009769:Object Attachment; D010553:Personality Development; D002666:Psychology, Child; D011779:Q-Sort; D012919:Social Behavior; D012931:Social Environment