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ERIC Number: EJ678164
Record Type: CIJE
Publication Date: 2003
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ISSN: ISSN-0012-1649
Toward Assessing Attachment on an Emotional Security Continuum: Comment on Fraley and Spieker (2003).
Cummings, E. Mark
Developmental Psychology, v39 n3 p405-08 May 2003
Advocates renewed efforts toward assessing attachment on a single continuum of emotional security. Contends that theory is essential to guide attachment assessment and that the constructs of secure base and emotional security provide the needed conceptual foundation. Addresses challenges to the scoring of attachment on a security continuum. Advocates new means for continuously scoring attachment as a supplement to the primary direction of categorically assessing attachment patterns. (Author/KB)
Descriptors: Attachment Behavior, Behavior Patterns, Individual Differences, Infant Behavior, Infants, Measurement Techniques, Models, Parent Child Relationship, Security (Psychology), Stranger Reactions, Theories
Publication Type: Journal Articles; Opinion Papers
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Language: English
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Identifiers: Ainsworth Strange Situation Procedure; Behavioral Variability; Continuum Models; Security Classifications; Security of Attachment
Note: Special Section on: "Attachment Security as Categorical vs. Dimensional: Exploring the Issues." Comments on article by Fraley and Spieker, PS 534 697, in this issue.