Attachment from infancy to early adulthood in a high-risk sample: continuity, discontinuity, and their correlates.

By Nancy S. Weinfield, L. Sroufe, B. Egeland. Child Development, 2000

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Early Intervention and the Development of Self-Regulation (2002, background): “Individuals with insecure early relationships are highly liable to have insecure attachment representations if they confronted social hardship in childhood years (Weinfield, Sroufe, and Egeland, 2000).”
Is attachment at ages 1, 6 and 16 related to autonomy and relatedness behavior of adolescents in interaction towards their mothers? (2008, neutral): “…4.93 0.78 Inhibiting autonomy 3.77 2.07 3.57 1.66 3.66 1.78 Promoting relatedness 5.08 1.20 6.20 1.08 6.34 1.20 Inhibiting relatedness 2.46 1.31 2.58 0.94 2.39 1.05 Merrick, Treboux, Crowell, & Albersheim, 2000) and discontinuity (Weinfield et al., 2000; Zimmermann, FremmerBombik et al., 1997).”
Social Foundations of the Capacity for Mindfulness: An Attachment Perspective (2007, background): “Longitudinal studies (eg, Grossmann et al, 2005 ; Weinfield, Sroufe, & Egeland, 2000 ) show that early security- and mentalization-enhancing interactions with primary attachment figures have beneficial effects of the kinds Ryan et al.”
The Role of Adult Attachment Styles in Psychopathology and Psychotherapy Outcomes (2006, methodology): “The third study using this methodology assessed continuity of attachment in a 19-year-old, low-income, high-risk cohort (mothers were young, mostly single, impoverished, had not completed high school, and most had unplanned pregnancies; Weinfield et al., 2000).”