Patterns of Attachment

By Phil Rich. 2008

1,215 citations recorded by the source corpus.

How researchers see this paper

The researchers whose trusted networks rank it highest, strongest advocate first. Every researcher gets a different order.

The Importance of Play (2007, background): “Arising originally from the seminal work of Bowlby (1953) and Ainsworth et al. (1978), we now have abundant evidence that the formation of secure emotional attachments early in a child’s life has significant consequences for healthy brain development (Swain et al, 2007), for emotion regulation and t”
Adult Attachment Orientations, Stress, and Romantic Relationships (2012, background): “In addition, many of the prototypical features of secure, anxious, and avoidant adults closely paralleled what Ainsworth et al. (1978) had found for secure, anxious, and avoidant infants. Given the limitations associated with categorical measures, subsequent attachment researchers (e.g., Collins & R”
Invariance of adult attachment across gender, age, culture, and socioeconomic status? (2010, background): “(The letters D, E, and F are meant to parallel the infant attachment patterns that Ainsworth et al., 1978, called B, A, and C for short.)”
Child maltreatment and insecure attachment: a meta‐analysis (2006, background): “They are more needy for attention, and are resistant and angry when directed away from their parents (Ainsworth et al., 1978).”
Attachment in the Classroom (2009, background): “variety of measures, such as the Strange Situation Procedure (Ainsworth et al. 1978) and the Adult Attachment Interview (Bretherton and Munholland 1999).”