Windows to the self in 8-year-olds: Bridges to attachment representation and behavioral adjustment

Attachment and Human Development

Volumn 2, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 85-106

  Easterbrooks, M Ann ^a   Abeles, Robyn ^b  

^a TUFTS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Attachment; Behavior adjustment; Self concept

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR DISORDER; CHILD; CONTROL; EGO DEVELOPMENT; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; OBJECT RELATION; PERSONALITY TEST; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; SELF CONCEPT; SELF EVALUATION; SEPARATION ANXIETY; SOCIAL ADAPTATION;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; ANXIETY, SEPARATION; CHILD; CHILD BEHAVIOR DISORDERS; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTERNAL-EXTERNAL CONTROL; MALE; OBJECT ATTACHMENT; PERSONALITY ASSESSMENT; PERSONALITY DEVELOPMENT; SELF ASSESSMENT (PSYCHOLOGY); SELF CONCEPT; SOCIAL ADJUSTMENT;

EID: 0034173536     PISSN: 14616734     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/146167300361336     Document Type: Article

References (52)

1. Achenbach, T. (1978). The Child Behavior Profile I. Boys aged 6-11. Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 46, 478-488.
2. Achenbach, T. M. (1991). Manual for the Teachers Report Form and 1991 Profile. Burlington, VT: University of Vermont, Department of Psychiatry.
3. Achenbach, T., & Edelbrock, C. (1979). The Child Behavior Profile II. Boys aged 12-16 and girls aged 6-11 and 12-16. Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 47, 1275-1301.
4. Arend, R., Gove, F., & Sroufe, L. A. (1979). Continuity of individual adaptation from infancy to kindergarten. A predictive study of ego resiliency and curiosity in preschoolers. Child Development, 50, 950-959.
5. Bartholomew, K., & Horowitz, L. M. (1991). Attachment styles among young adults: A test of a four category model. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 61, 226-244.
6. Block, J. H., & Block, J. H. (1978). The Q-sort method of personality assessment and psychiatric research. Palo Alto: Consulting Psychologists Press.
7. Bowlby, J. (1973). Attachment and loss: Vol. 2. Separation: Anxiety and anger. New York: Basic Books.
8. Bowlby, J. (1982). Attachment and loss: Vol. 3. Loss, sadness, and depression. New York: Basic Books.
9. Bretherton, I. (1985). Attachment theory: Retrospect and prospect. In I. Bretherton & E. Waters (Eds), Growing points in attachment theory and research. Monographs of the Society for Research in Child Development, 50(1-2, Serial No. 209).
10. Bretherton, I. (1991). Pouring new wine into old bottles: The social self as internal working model. In M. R. Gunner & L. A. Sroufe (Eds), Self processes and development: The Minnesota Symposia on Child Psychology, 23, 1-41.
11. Bretherton, I., Ridgeway, D., & Cassidy, J. (1990). Assessing internal working models of attachment relationships: An attachment story completion task for 3-year-olds. In M. T. Greeberg, K. Cicchetti, & E. M. Cummings (Eds), Attachment in the preschool years: Theory, research, and intervention (pp. 273-308). Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
12. Broughton, J. (1978). Development of concepts of self, mind, reality, and knowledge. New Directions for Child Development, 1, 75-100.
13. Cassidy J. (1988). Child-mother attachment and the self in six-year-olds. Child Development, 59, 121-134.
14. Chazan, R. Z. (1995). Attachment and self concept in high risk school age sample. Unpublished master's thesis, Tufts University Medford, MA.
15. Cohn, D. A. (1990). Child-mother attachment of six-year-olds and social competence in school. Child Development, 61, 152-162.
16. Cooley, C. H. (1902). Human nature and the social order. New York: Scribner's.
17. Damon, W., & Hart, D. (1982). The development of self understanding from infancy through adolescence. Child Development, 53, 841-864.
18. Easterbrooks, M. A. (1990). Teacher assessment of peer skills. Unpublished measure, Tufts University, Medford, MA.
19. Easterbrooks, M. A., Davidson, C. E., & Chazan, R. Z. (1993). Psychosocial risk, attachment, and behavior problems among school-aged children. Development and Psychopathology, 5, 389-402.
20. Easterbrooks, M. A., & Goldberg, W. E. (1990). Security of toddler-parent attachment. Relation to children's socio-personality functioning during kindergarten. In M. T. Greeberg, K. Cicchetti, & E. M. Cummings (Eds), Attachment in the preschool years: Theory, research, and intervention (pp. 221-244). Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
21. Hansburg, H. G. (1972). Adolescent separation anxiety: A method for the study of adolescent separation problems. Springfield, IL: Thomas.
22. Harter, S. (1982). The perceived competence scale for children. Child Development, 53, 7-97.
23. Harter, S. (1986). Processing under lying self concept formation in children. In J. Suls & A. Greenwald (Eds), Psychological perspectives on the self (Vol. 3, pp. 138-164). Hillsdale, NJ: Erlbaum.
24. Harter, S. (1989). Causes, correlates and the functional role of global self worth: A life span perspective. In J. Kollogan & R. Sternberg (Eds), Perspectives of competence and incompetence across the life span (pp. 67-97). New Haven, CT: Yale University Press.
25. Harter, S. (1990). Issues in the assessment of the self-concept of children and adolescents. In A. La Greca (Ed.), Childhood assessment: Through the eyes of a child (pp. 292-325). Boston, MA: Allyn & Bacon.
26. Harter, S., & Nowakowski, M. (1987). The dimensions of depression profile for children and adolescents. University of Denver, Denver, CO.
27. Kaplan, N. (1985). Procedures for administration of the Hansburg Separation Anxiety Test for younger children adapted from Klagsbrun and Bowlby. Unpublished manuscript.
28. Klagsbrun, M., & Bowlby, J. (1976). Responses to separation from parents: A clinical test for young children. British Journal of Projective Psychology, 21, 7-21.
29. Kobak, R. R., & Sceery A. (1988). Attachment in late adolescence: Working models, affect regulation, and representation of self and others. Child Development, 59, 135-146.
30. Kohut, H. (1971). The analysis of self. New York: International Universities Press.
31. Lyons-Ruth, K., Easterbrooks, M. A., & Cibelli, C. D. (1997). Infant attachment strategies, infant mental lag, and maternal depressive symptoms: Predictors of internalizing and externalizing problems at age 7. Developmental Psychology, 33, 681-692.
32. Mahler, M. S., Pine, F., & Bergman, A. (1975). The psychological birth of the human infant. New York: Basic Books.
33. Main, M., Kaplan, N., & Cassidy J. (1985). Security in infancy, childhood, and adulthood: A move to the level of representation. In I. Bretherton and E. Waters (Eds), Growing points in attachment theory and research, Monographs of the Society for Research in Child Development, 50(1-2, Serial No. 209).
34. Marsh, H. W., & Craven, R. G. (1991). Self-other agreement on multiple dimensions of preadolescent self-concept: The accuracy of inferences by teachers, mothers, and fathers. Journal of Educational Psychology, 83, 393-404.
35. Marsh, H. W., Craven, R., & Debus, R. (1998). Structure, stability, and development of young children's self-concepts: A multicohort-multioccasion study. Child Development, 69, 1030-1053.
36. Pipp, S. L., Easterbrooks, M. A., & Harmon, R. J. (1992). The relation between attachment and knowledge of self and mother in one- to three-year-old infants. Child Development, 63, 738-750.
37. Pipp-Siegel, S., Easterbrooks, M. A., Brown, S., & Harmon, R. (1995). The relation between infants' self/mother knowledge and three attachment categories. Infant Mental Health, 3, 221-232.
38. Renouf, A. G., & Harter, S. (1990). Low self-worth and anger as components of the depressive experience in young adolescents. Development and Psychopathology, 2, 293-310.
39. Schneider-Rosen, K., & Cicchetti, D. (1984). The relationship between affect and cognition in maltreated infants: Quality of attachment and the development of self-recognition. Child Development, 55, 648-658.
40. Schore, A. N. (1994). Affect regulation and the origin of the self: The neurobiology of emotional development. Hillsdale, NJ: Erlbaum.
41. Selman, R. L. (1980). The growth of interpersonal understanding. Orlando, FL: Academic Press.
42. Slough, N. M., & Greenberg, M. T. (1990). Five-year-old's representations of separation from parents: Response from the perspective of self and other. In I. Bretherton and M. Watson (Eds), New directions for child development: Children's perspectives on the family (pp. 67-84). San Francisco: Jossey-Bass.
43. Sroufe, L. A. (1983). Infant-caregiver attachment and patterns of adaptation in preschool: The roots of maladaption and competence. In M. Perlmutter (Ed.), Minnesota Symposium on Child Psychology, 16, (pp. 41-83). Hillsdale, NJ: Erlbaum.
44. Sroufe, L. A. (1989). Relationships, self, and individual adaptation. In A. J. Sameroff & R. N. Emde (Eds), Relationship disturbances in early childhood (pp. 70-94). New York: Basic Books.
45. Sroufe, L. A., & Fleeson, J. (1986). Attachment and the construction of relationships. In W. Hartup & Z. Rubin (Eds.), Relationships and development (pp. 51-71) New York: Cambridge University Press.
46. Stern, D. (1985). The interpersonal world of an infant. New York: Basic Books.
47. Turner, P. J. (1991). Relations between attachment, gender, and behavior in peers in preschool. Child Development, 62, 1475-1488.
48. Turner, P. J. (1993). Attachment to mother and behaviour with adults in preschool. British Journal of Developmental Psychology, 11, 75-89.
49. Verschueren, K., Buyck, P., & Marcoen, A. (under review). Self-representations and socioemotional competence in young children: A three-year longitudinal study.
50. Verschueren, K., & Marcoen, A. (1999). Representation of self and socioemotional competence in kindergartners: Differentials and combined effects of attachment to mother and to father. Child Development, 70, 183-201.
51. Verschueren, K., Marcoen, A., & Schoefs, V. (1996). The internal working model of self, attachment, and competence in five-year-olds. Child Development, 67, 2493-2511.
52. Wigfield, A., Eccles, J. S., Freedman-Doam, C., & Blumfeld, P. C. (1997). Changes in children's competence beliefs and subjective task values across the elementary school years: A three year study. Journal of Educational Psychology, 89, 451-469.