Comparison of Attachment theory and Cognitive-Motivational Structure theory.
Attachment theory and Cognitive-Motivational Structure (CMS) are similar in most respects. They differ primarily in their proposal of when, during development, one's sense of the self and of the outside world are formed. I propose that the theories supplement each other after about age seven years--when Attachment theory's predictions of social function become unreliable, CMS theory comes into play.
Visiting Scholar Institute of Human Development, University of California Berkeley, USA. ajmalerstein@earthlink.net
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D000328:Adult; D002648:Child; D002675:Child, Preschool; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D009042:Motivation; D009769:Object Attachment; D010287:Parent-Child Relations; D010553:Personality Development; D011582:Psychological Theory; D012917:Social Adjustment