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  • Title: Representations of attachment in mothers and their one-year-old infants.
    Author: Zeanah CH, Benoit D, Barton M, Regan C, Hirshberg LM, Lipsitt LP.
    Journal: J Am Acad Child Adolesc Psychiatry; 1993 Mar; 32(2):278-86. PubMed ID: 8444755.
    Abstract:
    Attachment classifications in mothers and their 1-year-old infants were independently and concurrently assessed using the Adult Attachment Interview and the Strange Situation Procedure. Overall concordance was significant (k = 0.62), with strong links apparent between mothers classified dismissing and infants classified avoidant and between mothers classified autonomous and infants classified secure. Mothers' classified preoccupied were not more likely to have infants classified resistant. Mothers' perceptions and interpretations of the emotional distress of an infant observed in a 4-minute videotape were related to both infant and mother attachment classifications. These results are compatible with the suggestion that attachment classification reflect differences in internal working models of relationships. Other measures of maternal psychosocial adjustment were not related to infant attachment classifications.
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