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Are Infant Attachment Patterns Continuously or Categorically Distributed? A Taxometric Analysis of Strange Situation Behavior.

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Fraley, R. Chris; Spieker, Susan J. – Developmental Psychology, 2003

This study applied Meehl's taxometric techniques for distinguishing latent types from late continua to Strange Situation data on 1,139 fifteen-month-olds from the NICHD Study of Early Child Care. Results indicated that variation in attachment patterns was largely continuous, not categorical. Implications of dimensional models for individual…

Descriptors: Attachment Behavior, Behavior Patterns, Individual Differences, Infant Behavior

What Are the Differences between Dimensional and Categorical Models of Individual Differences in Attachment? Reply to Cassidy (2003), Cummings (2003), Sroufe (2003), and Waters and Beauchaine (2003).

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Fraley, R. Chris; Spieker, Susan J. – Developmental Psychology, 2003

Discusses four questions concerning commentaries on the taxometric analysis of Strange Situation behavior related to: (1) whether the categorical model of attachment facilitates theoretical and empirical innovations; (2) whether and how a continuum of security fits into the two-dimensional model; (3) the role of types and dimensions in…

Descriptors: Attachment Behavior, Behavior Patterns, Individual Differences, Infant Behavior