This paper is organized to highlight gaps in our current understanding of attachment during
the middle and later years of childhood and to allow researchers to make informed decisions …

Despite children's need for attachment figures in middle childhood, this has been a relatively
neglected period for attachment research. This has been partly due to a lack of validated …

This chapter argues that self-report questionnaires are useful for assessing attachment in
middle childhood. The authors begin the chapter with a synopsis of prior research on …

Contrary to the substantial amount of research on infant, preschool, adolescent, and adult
attachment, middle childhood has long been neglected by the international attachment …

The assessment of attachment beyond infancy remains a controversial issue. Over the past
20 years adolescent attachment has been assessed in a variety of ways but no 'gold …

Background Attachment theory proposes that humans develop representations of self and
other in early childhood which are relatively stable across the life-course, and play a key role …

Strategies and specific measures for assessing attachment in infancy and childhood are
reviewed. The review highlights that, although the evidence base for a number of measures …

Research suggests that attachment patterns can be measured as early as 12 months of age
and that in the absence of major environmental change, they persist into adulthood …

This study examined correlates of attachment at age 3 to further validate preschool
separation-reunion measures. Three-year-olds (N= 150) and their mothers participated in a …

Ever since Mary Ainsworth's original work (eg, Ainsworth, Blehar, Waters, & Wall, 1978), the
bulk of attachment research has concerned behavioral assessments of attachment patterns …