Attachment Q-set

Waters, Everett; Deane, Kathleen E.

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“…As a means of assessing the attachment relationship, the larger study used the Attachment Q-Set (AQS; Waters and Deane, 1985;Waters, 1987) in place of the Strange Situation procedure. This more current measure of attachment consists of mothers or trained observers deriving an attachment coefficient by rating an infant on items based on behaviours observed in natural environments.…”

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Exposure to child care, parenting style and attachment security

Caldera

Hart

2003

Infant and Child Development

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The present study addressed whether security of attachment is differentiated by quality of parenting and quantity of exposure to child care. Sixty mothers participated with their 14-month-old infants, who by the age of 12-months had received either exclusive maternal care, or varying degrees of exposure to child care. Levels of attachment security were assessed through maternal completion of the Attachment Q-Set(AQS); parenting quality was assessed through observations of mother-infant interactions during structured tasks. The scores that less sensitive mothers assign their toddlers is higher when their children are in child care for more hours per week; whereas the scores that more sensitive mothers assign their toddlers is lower when their children are in child care for more hours per week. These contrasting patterns suggest that the effects of parenting style on attachment security are moderated by quantity of exposure to child care. Copyright # 2003 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. EXPOSURE TO CHILD CARE, PARENTING STYLE AND ATTACHMENT SECURITYIn the past several decades, the increasing number of infants experiencing nonmaternal care has raised questions about child outcomes as a function of early exposure to child care (Barglow et al., 1987;Belsky and Rovine, 1988; Brazelton, 1985). One concern has been the possibility that early non-maternal care poses a challenge to the formation of secure infant-mother attachment relationships. From the vantage point of attachment theory (Ainsworth, 1973;Ainsworth et al., 1978;Bowlby, 1969), maternal behaviors during an infant's first year of life are critical to the formation of a secure attachment relationship. Theorists working from this perspective have been particularly concerned over the early and routine mother-infant separations entailed by child care (Matas et al., 1978;Smith and Pederson, 1988). These concerns received support from several meta-analyses of the relationship between early placement in child care and attachment (Belsky and Rovine, 1988;Clarke-Stewart, 1989;Lamb et al., 1992), and from studies revealing that entrance into child care prior to the age of 12-months is associated

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Exposure to child care, parenting style and attachment security

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Hart

2003

Infant and Child Development

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“…Ritchie (1995) compared attachment security with home caregivers (biological mothers, foster mothers, adoptive mothers, and grandmothers) in two groups of four-year-old children prenatally exposed to alcohol and/or other drugs. At the time of assessment with the Attachment Q-Set (Waters, 1990), children in the first group had experienced consistent and predictable care. They had been adopted as young infants and had lived in homes without substance abusing caregivers.…”

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Changes in Child–Teacher Relationships in a Therapeutic Preschool Program

Howes

Ritchie²

1998

Early Education & Development

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“…Security of attachment can be derived from this description by comparing it with the description of the hypothetical "most secure child" as provided by experts on mother-child attachment. Waters (1986) asked ten developmental psychologists to provide such a description. He averaged these descriptions to form a "security criterion sort."…”

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“…The Attachment Q-sort developed by Waters (1986) was used. This instrument consists of 90 small cards each of which bears a description of child behavior.…”

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Validity of Attachment Q‐Sort Descriptions by Mothers: The Japanese Case

1997

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This paper aims to study the predictive validity of mothers' attachment Q‐sort descriptions (AQS) for assessing attachment security in children in Japan. Attachment theory predicts that attachment quality will be related to quality of interaction with mother and peers. Forty‐eight mothers of two‐year‐old children described their children using the AQS. In a play session with another mother–child dyad, child–mother interaction and peer interaction were observed. Neither of the predicted relations of attachment security, i.e., to child–mother interaction or to peer interaction, were found. It is argued that these findings indicate lack of validity of the mother AQS as method for the assessment of attachment security.

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Attachment Q-set

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Exposure to child care, parenting style and attachment security

Exposure to child care, parenting style and attachment security

Changes in Child–Teacher Relationships in a Therapeutic Preschool Program

Validity of Attachment Q‐Sort Descriptions by Mothers: The Japanese Case

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