The Fallacious Assumptions and Unrealistic Prescriptions of Attachment Theory: A Comment on

Hays, Sharon

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ERIC Number: EJ585258

Record Type: CIJE

Publication Date: 1998

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ISSN: ISSN-0022-2445

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The Fallacious Assumptions and Unrealistic Prescriptions of Attachment Theory: A Comment on "Parents' Socioemotional Investment in Children".

Hays, Sharon

Journal of Marriage and the Family, v60 n3 p782-90 Aug 1998

Asserts that sociocultural assumptions underlying items in the Parental Investment in the Child Questionnaire (PIC) are outdated and gender biased. Reviews the underlying logic of attachment theory and the PIC portrait of appropriate childrearing. Parental investment is shown to be maternal investment. The model provides debatable and unrealistic childrearing prescriptions. (EMK)

Descriptors: Attachment Behavior, Bias, Child Rearing, Models, Mothers, Parent Attitudes, Parent Child Relationship, Questionnaires, Test Validity

Publication Type: Journal Articles; Opinion Papers

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Language: English

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Note: For response, see CG 553 695.

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