Attachment Research Bibliography

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Abidin, R. (1995). Parenting Stress Index, Third Edition: Professional manual. Odessa, FL: Psychological Assessment Resources.

Ainsworth, M. D. S. (1973). The development of infant-mother attachment. In B. M. Caldwell & H. Ricciuti (Eds.), Review of child development research (Vol. 3). Chicago: Chicago University Press.

Ainsworth, M. D. S., & Bell, S. M. (1974). Mother-infant interaction and the development of competence. In K. J. Connolly & J. S. Bruner (Eds.), The growth of competence (pp. 97-118). New York: Academic.

Ainsworth, M. D. S., Blehar, M. C, Waters, E., & Wall, S. (1978). Patterns of attachment: A psychological study of the strange situation. Hillsdale, NJ: Erlbaum.

Arrendondo & Edwards (2000). Attachment, Bonding and Reciprocal Connectedness; limitations of Attachment theory in the Juvenile and Family Court; Journal of the Center for Families, Children & the Courts, 109-127.

Belsky, J. (1999). Interactional and contextual determinants of attachment security. In J. Cassidy & P. Shaver (Eds.), Handbook of attachment: Theory, research and clinical applications (pp. 249-264). New York: Guildford Press.

Belsky, J. (1996). Parent, infant, and social-contextual antecedents of father-son attachment security. Developmental Psychology, 5, 905-913.

Belsky, J., Fish, M., & Isabella, R. (1991). Continuity and discontinuity in infant negative and positive emotionality: Family antecedent and attachment consequences. Developmental Psychology, 27, 421-431.

Belsky, J., & Isabella, R. A. (1988). Maternal, infant, and social-contextual determinants of attachment security. In J. Belsky & T. Nezworski (Eds.), Clinical implications of attachment (pp. 41-94). Hillsdale, NJ: Erlbaum.

Belsky, J., Rosenberger, K., & Crnic, K. (1995). Maternal personality, marital quality, social support, and infant temperament: Their significance for infant-mother attachment in human families. In C. Pryce, R. Martin, & D. Skuse (Eds.), Motherhood in human and nonhuman primates (pp. 115-124). Basel: Karger.

Belsky, J., Lerner, R.M., & Spanier, B.G. (1984). The Child in the Family. Reading, MA: Addison-Wesley Publishing, pp. 37-58.

Berlin, L., & Cassidy, J. (1999). Relations among relationships: Contributions from attachment theory and research. In J. Cassidy & P. Shaver (Eds.), Handbook of attachment: Theory, research, and clinical applications (pp. 688-712). New York: Guilford Press.

Berlin, Lisa J. et al., Loneliness in Young Children and Infant-Mother Attachment: A Longitudinal Study, 41 Merrill-Palmer Q. 1, 91-103 (1995) (Examined the relationship between childhood loneliness and insecure-ambivalent attachment in infancy. As predicted, the most loneliness in early childhood was reported by children classified insecure-ambivalent in infancy. Possible explanations center on the contribution of attachment to peer relationships, internal working models, and child temperament.)

Berrick, J., Needell, B., Barth, R., & Jonson-Reid, M. (1998). The Tender Years. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Blehar, M. C., Lieberman, A. F., & Ainsworth, M. D. S. (1977). Early face-to-face interaction and its relation to later mother-infant attachment. Child Development, 48, 182-194.

Bowlby, J. (1982). Attachment and Loss. Vol. 1: Attachment. New York: Basic.

Bradley, R. H., Caldwell, B. M., Rock, S. L., Ramey, C. T., Barnard, K. E., Gray, C., et al. (1989). Home environment and cognitive development in the first three years of life: A collaborative study involving six sites and three ethnic groups in North America. Developmental Psychology, 25, 17-235.

Bronfenbrenner, U. (1989). Ecological systems theory. In R. Vasta (Ed.), Annals of child development. Six theories of child development: Revised formulations and current issues (pp. 187-249). London: JAI Press.

Burchinal, M., Roberts, J., Nabors, L., & Bryant, D. (1996). Quality of center child care and infant cognitive and language development. Child Development, 67(2), 606-620.

Bus, A. G., & van Ijzendoorn, M. H. (1988). Mother-child interactions, attachment and emergent literacy: A cross-sectional study. Child Development, 59(5), 1262-1272.

Caldwell, B. M., & Bradley, R. H. (1984). The Home Observation for the Measurement of the Environment. Little Rock: University of Arkansas at Little Rock.

Carlson, E. (1998). A prospective longitudinal study of attachment disorganization/disorientation. Child Development, 69, 1107-1128.

Cicchetti, D., Rogosch, F. A., & Toth, S. L. (1998). Maternal depressive disorder and contextual risk: Contributions to the development of attachment insecurity and behavior problems in toddlerhood. Development and Psychopathology, 10, 283-300.

Cicchetti D. "An Odyssey of Discovery: Lessons Learned through Three Decades of Research on Child Maltreatment", American Psychologist (Nov. 2004): Vol. 59, No. 8, pp. 731­41.

Cohen, J. (1992). A power primer. Psychological Bulletin, 112, 155-159.

Crnic, K. A., Greenberg, M. T., & Slough, N. M. (1986). Early stress and social support influences on mothers' and high-risk infants' functioning in late infancy. Infant Mental Health Journal, 7, 19-33.

Cryer, D., Hurwitz, S., & Wolery, M. (2000). Continuity of caregiver for infants and toddlers in center-based child care: Report on a survey of center practices. Early Childhood Research Quarterly, 15(4), 497-514.

Cummings, E. M. (1980). Caregiver stability and day care. Developmental Psychology, 16(1), 31-37.

DeMulder, E. K., & Radke-Yarrow, M. (1991). Attachment with affectively ill and well mothers: Current behavioral correlates. Developmental Psychopathology, 3, 227-242.

De Wolff, M., & van IJzendoorn, M. H. (1997). Sensitivity and attachment: A meta-analysis on parental antecedents of infant attachment. Child Development, 68, 571-591.

Ehrle, J., Adams, G., & Tout, K. (2001). Who's Caring for Our Youngest Children?

Erdman Caffery, An Interview with Robert Marvin: Linking Systems and Attachment Theory; The Family Journal Counseling and Therapy for Couples and Families Vol 8 No3 2000 309-316

Erickson, M., Sroufe, A., & Egeland, B. (1985). The relationship between quality of attachment and behavior problems in preschool in a high-risk sample. In I. Bretherton and E. Waters (Eds.). Growing points of attachment theory and research. Monographs of the Society for Research in Child Development, 50, 147-166.

Essa, E. L., Favre, K., Thweatt, G., & Waugh, S. (1999). Continuity of care for infants and toddlers. Early Development and Care, 148, 11-19.

Farran, D.C., & Ramey, C.T. (1977). Infant day care and attachment behaviors toward mothers and teachers. Child Development, 48, 1112-1116.

Fown, N. (1977). Attachment of kibbutz infants to mother and metapelet. Child Development, 48, 1228-1239.

Freud, A., & Burlingham, D. (1944). Infants without families. New York: International Universities Press.

Frodi, A., Keller, B., Foye, H., Liptak, G., Bridges, L., Grolnick, W., et al. (1984). Determinants of attachment and master motivation in infants born to adolescent mothers. Infant Mental Health Journal, 5, 15-23.

Frosch, C., Mangelsdorf, S., & McHale, J. (2000). Marital behavior and the security of preschooler-parent attachment relationships. Journal of Family Psychology, 14, 144-161.

Garmezy, N., Masten, A. S., & Tellegen, A. (1984). The study of stress and competence in children: A building block for developmental psychopathology. Child Development, 55, 97-111.

Gean, M., Gillmore, J., & Dowler, J. (1985). Infants and toddlers in supervised custody: A pilot study for visitation. Journal of the American Academy of Child Psychiatry, 24, 5, 608-612.

Gelfand, D., & Teti, D. (1990). The effects of maternal depression on children. Clinical Psychology Review, 10, 329-353.

Glaser D. "Child Abuse and Neglect and the Brain A Review," Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry and Allied Disciplines (Jan.­Feb. 2000): Vol. 41, No. 1, pp. 97­116

Goerge, R., & Wulczyn, F. (1998). Placement experiences of the youngest foster care population: Findings from the multistate foster care data archive. Zero to Three, 19(3), 8-13.

Goldberg, W. A., & Easterbrooks, M. A. (1984). The role of marital quality in toddler development. Developmental Psychology, 20, 504-514.

Goldsmith, H. H., & Alansky, J. A. (1987). Maternal and infant temperamental predictors of attachment: A meta-analytic review. Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 55, 805-816.

Goldsmith, H. H., & Harmon, C. (1994).Temperament and attachment; Individuals and relationships. Current Directions in Psychological Science, 3, 53-57.

Goossens, F. A., & van Ijzendoorn, M. H. (1990). Quality of infants' attachments to professional caregivers: Relation to infant-parent and day-care characteristics. Child Development, 61(3), 832-837.

Hadadian, A., & Merbler, J. (1996). Mother's stress: Implications for attachment relationships. Early Child Development and Care, 125, 59-66.

Harris, J. (1992). Babies in prison. Zero to Three, 13, 17-21.

Helburn, S. W. (Ed.). (1995). Cost, Quality, and Child Outcomes in Child Care Centers. Technical report. Denver: University of Colorado at Denver.

Howes, C., & Hamilton, C. E. (1992). Children's relationships with caregivers: Mothers and child care teachers. Child Development, 63(4), 859-866.

Howes, C., & Hamilton, C. E. (1993). The changing experience of child care: Changes in teachers and in teacher-child relationships and children's social competence with peers. Early Childhood Research Quarterly, 8(1), 15-32.

Jacobson, J. L., & Wille, D. E. (1986). The influence of attachment pattern on developmental changes in peer interaction from the toddler to the preschool period. Child Development, 57(2), 338-347.

Jarvis, P. A., & Creasey, G. L. (1991). Parental stress, coping, and attachment in families with an 18-month-old infant. Infant Behavior and Development, 14, 383-395.

Kagan, J. (1982). Psychological research on the human infant: An evaluative summary. New York: W. T. Grant Foundation.

Klann-Delius, G., & Hofmeister, C. (1997). The development of communicative competence of securely and insecurely attached children in interactions with their mothers. Journal of Psycholinguistic Research, 26(1), 69-88.

Laible, D. J., & Thompson, R. A. (1998). Attachment and emotional understanding in preschool children. Developmental Psychology, 34, 1038-1045.

Laible, D. J., & Thompson, R. A. (2000). Mother-child discourse, attachment security, shared positive affect, and early conscience development. Child Development, 71, 1424-1440.

Lieberman, M., Doyle, A., & Markiewicz, D. (1999). Developmental patterns in security of attachment to mother and father in late childhood and early adolescence: Associations with peer relations. Child Development, 70, 202-213.

Luecken LJ, et al. "Early Caregiving and Physiological Stress Responses," Clinical Psychology Review (May 2004): Vol. 24, No. 2, pp. 171­91.

Luster, T, & Rhoades, K. (1989). The relation between child-rearing beliefs and the home environment in a sample of adolescent mothers. Family Relations, 38, 317-322.

Lyons (1996). "Attachment relationships among children with aggressive behavior problems. The role of disorganized early attachment patterns." Journ of Con and Clin Psych, 64(1), 64-73.

Lyons-Ruth, K., Alpern, L., & Repacholi, B. (1993). Disorganized infant attachment classification and maternal psychosocial problems as predictors of hostile-aggressive behavior in the preschool classroom. Child Development, 64, 572-585.

Matas, L., Arend, R., & Sroufe, L. (1978). Continuity of adaptation in the second year: The relationship between quality of attachment and later competence. Child Development, 49(3), 547-556.

Murray, L., Fiori-Cowley, A., Hooper, R., & Cooper, P. (1996). The impact of postnatal depression and associated adversity on early mother-infant interactions and later infant outcome. Child Development, 67, 2512-2526.

Nemeroff CB, et al. "Differential Responses to Psychotherapy versus Pharmacotherapy in Patients with Chronic Forms of Major Depression in Childhood Trauma," Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (Nov. 25, 2003): Vol. 100, No. 24, pp.14,293­96

NICHD Early Child Care Research Network. (1996). Characteristics of infant child care: Factors contributing to positive caregiving. Early Childhood Research Quarterly, 11(3), 269-306.

Parke, R. D. (1996). Fatherhood. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press. Pp. 48-60 (75% of married fathers have no regular infant-care responsibilities; 43% report never changing a diaper; Euro-American fathers on average spend only 20- 25% the time mothers do in direct child care, 33% when both parents work.)

Pederson, D. R., Gleason, K. E., Moran, G, & Bento, S. (1998). Maternal attachment representations, maternal sensitivity, and the infant-mother attachment relationship. Developmental Psychology, 5, 925-933.

Pederson, D. R., & Moran, G. (1995). A categorical description of infant-mother relationships in the home and its relation to Q-sort measures of infant-mother interaction. In E. Waters, B. Vaughn, G. Posada, & K. Kondo-Ikemura (Eds.), Monographs of the Society for Research in Child Development, 60 (2-3, Serial No. 244), 247-254.

Pederson, D., Moran, G., Sitko, C., Campbell, K., Ghesquire, K., & Acton, H. (1990). Maternal sensitivity and the security of infant-mother attachment: A Q-sort study. Child Development, 61, 1974-1983.

Pilowsky, D., & Kate, W. (1996). Foster children in acute crisis: Assessing critical aspects of attachment. Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, 35, 1095-1097.

Posada, G., Gao, Y., Wu, F., Posada, R., Tascon, M., Schoelmerich, A., et al. (1995). The secure-base phenomenon across cultures: Children's behavior, mothers' preferences, and experts' concepts. In E. Waters, B. Vaughn, G. Posada, & K. Kondo-Ikemura (Eds.), Caregiving, cultural, and cognitive perspectives on secure-base behavior and working models: New growing points of attachment theory and research. Monographs of the Society for Research in Child Development, 60 (2-3, Serial No. 244, pp. 27-48).

Posada, & K. Kondo-Ikemura (Eds.), Caregiving, cultural, and cognitive perspectives on secure-base behavior and working models: New growing points of attachment theory and research. Monographs of the Society for Research in Child Development, 60 (2-3, Serial No. 244, pp. 234-246).

Pruett, M.K., Ebling, R & Insabella, G. (2004). Critical aspects of parenting plans for young children. FCR, 42 (1), 39-59. Children's ages: birth to 6 years. Findings inconsistent in some ways with Solomon & George - some outcomes other than attachment were better for kids with overnights.

Raikes, H. (1993). Relationship duration in infant care: Time with a high-ability teacher and infant-teacher attachment. Early Childhood Research Quarterly, 8(3), 309-325.

Sapolsky RM. Why Zebras Don¹t Get Ulcers: A Guide to Stress, Stress Related Diseases, and Coping. W.H. Freeman, 1994.

Seifer, R. (1995). Perils and pitfalls of high-risk research. Developmental Psychology, 31, 420-424.

Seifer, R., Schiller, M., Sameroff, A. J., Resnick, S., & Riordan, K. (1996). Attachment, maternal sensitivity, and infant temperament during the first year of life. Developmental Psychology, 32, 12-25.

Shaw, D. S., & Vondra, J. I. (1993). Chronic family adversity and infant attachment security. Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, 34, 1205-1215.

Simms, M. (1991). Foster children and the foster care system, part II: Impact on the child. Current Problems in Pediatrics, 21, 345-369.

Smith, P. B., & Pederson, D. R. (1988). Maternal sensitivity and patterns of infant-mother attachment. Child Development, 59(4), 1097-1101.

Solis, M. L., & Abidin, R. R. (1991). The Spanish version Parenting Stress Index: A Psychometric Study. Journal of Clinical Child Psychology, 20, 372-378.

Solomon, J., & George, C. (1999). The development of attachment in separated and divorced families: Effects of overnight visitation, parent and couple variables. Attachment and Human Development, 1, 2 - 33.

Spieker, S. J., & Booth, C. L. (1988). Maternal antecedents of attachment quality: What makes social risk risky? In J. Belsky & T. Nezworski (Eds.), Clinical Implications of Attachment (pp. 95-135). Hillsdale, NJ: Erlbaum.

Spitz, R. (1945). Hospitalism: An inquiry into the genesis of psychiatric conditions in early childhood. The Psychoanalytic Study of the Child, 1, 53-74.

Sroufe, L. A. (1985). Attachment classification from the perspective of infant-caregiver relationships and infant temperament. Child Development, 56, 1-14.

Stormshak, Bellanti, Bierman; The quality of sibling relationships and the development of social competence and behavior control in Aggressive children; 1996; Developmental psychology vol 32; no 1 79-89

Stovall, K., & Dozier, M. (1998). Infants in foster care: An attachment theory perspective. Adoption Quarterly, 2, 55-88.

Susman-Stillman, A., Kalkoske, M., Egeland, B., & Waldman, I. (1996). Infant temperament and maternal sensitivity as predictors of attachment security. Infant Behavior and Development, 19, 33-47.

Teti, D. M., & Gelfand, D. M. (1991). Behavioral competence among mothers of infants in the first year: The mediational role of maternal self-efficacy. Child Development, 62, 918-929.

Teti, D. M., Gelfand, D. M., Messinger, D. S. & Isabella, R. (1995). Maternal depression and the quality of early attachment: An examination of infants, preschoolers, and their mothers. Developmental Psychology, 31, 364-376.

Teti, D. M., & McGourty, S. (1996). Using mothers versus trained observers in assessing children's secure base behavior: Theoretical and methodological considerations. Child Development, 67, 597-605.

Teti, D. M., Nakagawa, M., Das, R., & Wirth, O. (1991). Security of attachment between preschoolers and their mothers: Relations among social interaction, parenting stress, and mothers' sorts of the Attachment Q-Set. Developmental Psychology, 27, 440-447.

Tyler, R., Howard, J., Espinosa, M., & Doakes, S. (1997). Placement with substance-abusing mothers vs. placement with other relatives: Infant outcomes. Child Abuse & Neglect, 21, 337-349.

Van Ijzendoorn, M. H., Dijkstra, J., & Bus, A. G. (1995). Attachment, intelligence and language: A meta-analysis. Social Development, 4(2), 115-128.

Van IJzendoorn, M.H. (June 1994). Attachment in context. Kibbutz child-rearing as a historical experiment. Invited paper presented at the workshop on Human lives in time and place (Chair: G. Elder), at the Biennial Meeting of the International Society for the Study of Behavioral Development, June 27-July 2, 1994, Amsterdam. ("In the beginning of the eighties, Sagi, Lamb and others used the Strange Situation to study the relationships of 85 communally sleeping kibbutz infants with their parents and caregivers. They also examined the relationships with their mothers of 36 Israeli infants attending city day-care facilities. They found that only 59% of kibbutz infants were securely attached to their mothers, äs compared with 75% of Israeli day-care infants, and with 65%-70% found in most studies. Among children with insecure attachments in both Israeli samples, anxious-ambivalent relationships were overrepresented.")

Wachs, T. (1990). Must the physical environment be mediated by the social environment in order to influence development?: A further test. Journal of Applied Developmental Psychology, 11, 163-178.

Wachs, T. D., & Camli, O. (1991). Do ecological or individual characteristics mediate the influence of the physical environment upon maternal behavior? Journal of Environmental Psychology, 11, 249-264.

Walters, Wippman, Stroufe (1979). "Attachment, positive affect, and competence in the peer group: Two studies in construct validation." Child Development, 50, 821-829.

Wartner, Grossmann, Fremmer-Bombick, Suess. (1994). "Attachment patterns at age 6 in South Germany: Predictability from infance and implications for preschool behavior." Child Development, 65, 1014-1027.

Waters, E. (1995). Appendix A: The attachment Q-set (version 3.0). In E. Waters, B. Vaughn, G.

Weinfield, N. S., Sroufe, L. A., & Egeland, B. (2000). Attachment from infancy to early adulthood in a high-risk sample: Continuity, discontinuity, and their correlates. Child Development, 71, 695-702. Teti, D. M., & McGourty, S. (1996). Using mothers versus trained observers in assessing children's secure base behavior: Theoretical and methodological considerations. Child Development, 67, 597-605.

Whitebook, M., Howes, C., & Phillips, D. (1989). Who Cares? Child Care Teachers and the Quality of Care in America. Final Report of the National Child Care Staffing Study. Oakland, CA: Child Care Employee Project.

Wobie, K., Eyler, F. D., Conlan, M., Clarke, L., & Behnke, M. (1997). Women and treatment in residential treatment: Outcomes for mothers and their infants. Journal of Drug Issues, 27(3), 585-606.

Zeanah, C. H. et al. (2000). Disorganized attachment associated with partner violence: A research note. Infant Mental Health Journal,Volume 20, Issue 1 , Pages 77-86 (Seventy-two low-income mothers and their 15-month-old infants were evaluated at home and in the laboratory to determine whether mothers' reports of distress and partner violence were associated with infant-mother attachment and infant mastery motivation. As predicted, mothers who experienced more serious partner violence were more likely to have infants with disorganized attachments to them. There was no association between mothers' experiences of partner violence and infant mastery motivation.)

Zuravin, S., & DePanfilis, J. (1997). Factors affecting foster care placement of children receiving child protective services. Social Work Research, 21(1), 34-42.

"I've been in this business (of academia) for nearly a quarter century now and nothing depresses me more than the rampant, seemingly inveterate mis-characterization that lies at the core of nearly every academic debate. We are not incapable of arguing about intellectual substance and empirical reality, but we seem to prefer misunderstanding as a subject for invective. The root of this lamentable behavior can only lie in careless habits of reading and thinking (or, worse, in our willingness to argue without reading at all)."
-- Stephen J. Gould. as quoted in Belsky, J. (2001). Emanuel Miller Lecture Developmental Risks (Still) Associated with Early Child Care. J. Child Psycho). Psychiat. Vol. 42, No. 7, pp. 845-859.