Attachment in the Preschool Years: Theory, Research, and Intervention (Greenberg, Cicchetti & Cummings, eds.), containing Main & Solomon, pp. 121-160
This is the chapter that introduced the disorganised classification to attachment research. The original Strange Situation procedure sorted infants into three patterns, and a proportion of children fitted none of them, showing behaviour that was contradictory or apparently without strategy on reunion with a caregiver: freezing, approaching while looking away, or movements that started and stopped. This chapter set out procedures for identifying those children as a fourth category rather than forcing them into the existing three. The classification became central to later work associating attachment with risk. It is a methods chapter in an edited academic book rather than a journal paper, which is why no abstract exists for it.
This is the chapter that introduced the disorganised classification to attachment research. The original Strange Situation procedure sorted infants into three patterns, and a proportion of children fitted none of them, showing behaviour that was contradictory or apparently without strategy on reunion with a caregiver: freezing, approaching while looking away, or movements that started and stopped. This chapter set out procedures for identifying those children as a fourth category rather than forcing them into the existing three. The classification became central to later work associating attachment with risk. It is a methods chapter in an edited academic book rather than a journal paper, which is why no abstract exists for it.
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Main, M., & Solomon, J. (1990). 'Procedures for identifying infants as disorganized/disoriented during the Ainsworth Strange Situation.' In Greenberg, Cicchetti & Cummings (Eds.), Attachment in the Preschool Years, 121-160. University of Chicago Press. Prevalence of roughly 15 per cent in normative samples and higher in high-risk samples: van IJzendoorn, Schuengel & Bakermans-Kranenburg (1999), Development and Psychopathology, 11(2), 225-249, about 80 studies and over 6,000 dyads.
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