In defense of unresolved attachment: re-modelling intergenerational transmission of attachment

Figures & data

Table 1. The rotated canonical loading matrices and their 95% confidence interval.

	Canonical loadings		95% confidence interval
	Dim1	Dim2	Dim1	Dim2
Dismissing	0.71	−0.30	[0.48,0.93]	[−0.58,-0.02]
Autonomous	−0.61	−0.41	[−0.80,-0.42]	[−0.65,-0.18]
Preoccupied	0.35	0.14	[0.002,0.71]	[−0.30,0.59]
Unresolved	−0.05	0.85	[−0.33,0.23]	[0.62,1.07]
Avoidant	0.84	−0.09	[0.63,1.04]	[−0.26,0.08]
Secure	−0.43	−0.58	[−0.60,-0.27]	[−0.71,-0.45]
Resistant	0.28	0.25	[−0.10,0.66]	[−0.12,0.61]
Disorganized	−0.20	0.78	[−0.39,-0.02]	[0.59,0.97]

Note. Canonical loadings in bold are those with a 95% confidence interval excluding zero.

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Table 2. The rotated inter/intra correlations and their 95% confidence interval.

	Correlations between canonical variates
	Mother_dim1	Mother_dim2	Infant_dim1	Infant_dim2
Mother_dim1	1.00	[−0.12,0.02]	[0.20,0.33]	[0.05,0.22]
Mother_dim2	−0.05	1.00	[−0.17,0.03]	[0.17,0.32]
Infant_dim1	0.26	−0.07	1.00	[−0.15,-0.02]
Infant_dim2	0.14	0.24	−0.08	1.00

Note. Correlations in bold are those with a 95% confidence interval excluding zero.

Data availability statement

Dataset is available in Verhage, M. L., Schuengel, C., Madigan, S., Fearon, R. M. P., Oosterman, M., Cassibba, R., Bakermans-Kranenburg, M. J. & Van IJzendoorn, M. H. (2016). Narrowing the transmission gap: A synthesis of three decades of research on intergenerational transmission of attachment. Psychological Bulletin, 142, 337–366. https://doi.org/10.1037/bul0000038