Studied the role of attachment theory in adjustment to college in an effort to determine students who would need or seek out student support services. Survey findings for 184 freshmen revealed their attachment styles. By mid-semester, the predicted significant differences identifying students in need of support began to emerge. (SLD)

Examines the association between family structure, attachment, and identity formation. Results partially support the hypotheses and indicate that unresolved spouse conflict is associated with low levels of attachment in adolescents and attachment to father is linked to identity achieved and the diffused identity status. Findings support a link…

Three attachment style scales were developed. The factor structure of the attachment style construct was supported through exploratory factor analysis of attachment style scores from 1,181 and 545 recent college graduates. Additional evidence for score validity is presented, based on a measure of the Big Five personality traits. (SLD)

Creating pro-environmental behaviors requires creating bonds to the natural world. Modern technology allows more people to experience and bond with natural areas. Use of modern technology can alleviate negative impacts on nature through no-trace practices but also supports consumptive activities. Practicing primitive wilderness skills…

From interviews with 47 Mexican maquiladora workers, a model of voluntary turnover was created and compared with models from the United States, Canada, England, and Australia. Despite similarities, the cultural and economic environment affected the precise content of antecedents in the Mexican model. (Contains 63 references.) (SK)

Assessed reliability, construct, and discriminant validity of Bartholemew's four-category model of attachment in a clinical sample of adolescents. Found that Family Attachment Interview codings of attachment representations were reliable, with possible limitations of categorical assignments. Attachment representations were not associated with…

Examines a link between attachment style and person-centered comforting. Notes that research suggests that those with secure attachment beliefs tend to be better comforters than those who are more avoidantly or anxiously attached. Suggests that one possible explanation lies in secures' ability to construct person-centered comforting messages.…

Tested hypothesis that spouses' shared leisure time is form of pleasurable interaction that strengthens attachment between them and helps prevent marital dissolution. Empirical tests supported attachment hypothesis and suggest that, because couples with children have less shared leisure time, children can contribute to marital dissolution as well…

Investigates the relation between 48 mothers' perceptions of control over the termination of their 5-month-old infants' cries and the infant's security attachment at 16 months. Insecure infant attachment was associated with maternal perception of overcontrol. (RJC)

Examined the relation between infant-sibling affective involvement and the attachment security of 1-7-year-old children of 53 mothers. Secure infants reacted less negatively than insecure infants when mothers turned their attention to an older child. (RJC)

Investigated the relation of perinatal risk status to dimensions of the attachment relationships of 60 infants with their parents. The results showed no evidence that preterm or full-term status influenced infants' attachment relationships with either mothers or fathers. (RJC)

Event-related potentials (ERPs) were recorded from infants shown sets of familiar faces presented frequently and infrequently, and a set of novel faces presented infrequently, and correlated with infant emotional behavior and cortisol levels. Found that infants scoring higher on the normative ERP factor were more distressed during parent…

Studied behavior of infants with insecure-avoidant attachments who were reunited with their mothers after having been placed in a strange situation away from the mothers. Infants with extensive nonparental care experience displayed more stressful behavior in reunion episodes than did infants with less nonparental care experience. (GLR)

Administered Texas Inventory of Grief to and conducted interviews with 81 widows between the ages of 26 and 82. Compared to younger women, older women showed more intense grief at time of interview and reported more feelings of anxiety and depression. Findings showed that older women did not tolerate or adapt to bereavement more successfully than…

Studied 125 mothers and firstborn sons over 11-month period to examine relations between mothers' representations of their relationships with their children, adult representations of attachment, and observed mothering. Findings revealed significant relationship between mothers' representations of relationships with their children and adult…