The predictive validity of the strange situation procedure: Evidence from registered analyses of two landmark longitudinal studies.

ABSTRACT: Meta-analyses demonstrate that the quality of early attachment is modestly associated with peer social competence (r = .19) and externalizing behavior (r = -.15), but weakly associated with internalizing symptoms (r = -.07) across early development (Groh et al., Child Development Perspectives, 11(1), 70-76, 2017). Nonetheless, these reviews suffer from limitations that undermine confidence in reported estimates, including evidence for publication bias and the lack of comprehensive assessments of outcome measures from longitudinal studies in the literature. Moreover, theoretical claims regarding the specificity of the predictive significance of early attachment variation for socioemotional versus academic outcomes had not been evaluated when the analyses for this

SUBMITTER: Nivison M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11169091 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature