“…Since then, the ASCT and adaptations to the procedure, as well to the original coding system, applied at preschool and school ages, has been validated across cultures (e.g., Pierrehumbert, Santelices, Ibáñez, Alberdi, Ongari, & Roskam, 2009) although more studies are needed to fully confi rm the convergent and the discriminant validity of the instrument (Cassibba, Coppola, & Bruno, 2003;). So far, most studies corroborate the existence of positive associations with children's attachment behaviour towards the mother in infancy (Gloger-Tippelt, Gomille, König, & Vetter, 2002;Silva, Fernandes, Veríssimo, Shin, Vaughn, & Bost, 2008;Smeekens, Riksen-Walraven, & Van-Bakel, 2009) and middle childhood (Solomon, George, & DeJong, 1995). Links with measures of contemporane-ous maternal sensitivity (Goodman, Aber, Berlin, & Brooks-Gunn, 1998) and with mothers' concurrent, although not past, depressive symptoms have also been found (Trapolini, Ungerer, & McMahon, 2007).…”