Development and change in attachment: A multiwave assessment of attachment and its correlates across childhood and adolescence.

ABSTRACT: This research examines the contextual factors that facilitate development and change in attachment during later childhood, adolescence, and early adulthood using a longitudinal cohort design involving 690 children (7-19 years old) and their parents. At each wave, a variety of interpersonal variables (e.g., parent-child stress) were measured. We examined alternative developmental processes (i.e., long-term, catalytic, and short-term processes) that have not been previously distinguished in attachment research. Preregistered analyses revealed that nondevelopmental processes can explain the associations between almost all of the interpersonal variables of interest and attachment security, suggesting that previous research using traditional longitudinal methods may have misattributed nondevelo

SUBMITTER: Khan F 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7021586 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature