Abstract: Abstract Mary D. S. Ainsworth is well known for her methodological, empirical, and theoretical contributions to the study of infant attachment. With her colleague Barbara Wittig, she devised the famous laboratory procedure called “the Strange Situation.” In this procedure, developed during her tenure at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, infants are carefully observed over several brief periods when their mothers are present, then absent, and then return. Ainsworth's research with the Strange Situation revealed reliable individual differences in infant behaviors that were correlated with ratings of maternal sensitivity to a number of infant cues during the first three months of life and to later patterns of attachment. These findings led to the widespread use of the Strange Situation as an efficient method of classifying infant‐parent attachment patterns.
Publication Year: 2013
Publication Date: 2013-10-17
Language: en
Type: other
Indexed In: ['crossref']
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