Piecing together the sensitivity construct: ethology and cross-cultural research

References

• Ainsworth, M. D. S. (1964). Patterns of attachment behavior shown by the infant in interaction with his mother. Merrill Palmer Quarterly, 10, 51–58.
   Google Scholar
• Ainsworth, M. D. S. (1967). Infancy in Uganda: Infant care and the growth of love. Baltimore, MD: John Hopkins University Press.
   Google Scholar
• Ainsworth, M. D. S. (1969). Object relations, dependency, and attachment: A theoretical review of the infant-mother relationship. Child Development, 40, 969–1025.
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Ainsworth, M. D. S. (1977a). Infant development and infant-mother interaction among Ganda and American families. In P. H. Leiderman, S. R. Tulkin, & A. Rosenfeld (Eds.), Culture and infancy (pp. 119–149). New York, NY: Academic Press.
   Google Scholar
• Ainsworth, M. D. S. (1977b). Attachment theory and its utility in cross-cultural research. In P. H. Leiderman, S. R. Tulkin, & A. Rosenfeld (Eds.), Culture and infancy (pp. 49–67). New York, NY: Academic Press.
   Google Scholar
• Ainsworth, M. D. S. (1991). Attachment and other affectional bonds across the life cycle. In C. M. Parkes, J. Stevenson-Hinde, & P. Morris (Eds.), Attachment across the life cycle (pp. 33–51). London: Routledge.
   Google Scholar
• Ainsworth, M. D. S., Bell, S. M., & Stayton, D. F. (1971). Individual differences in strange situation behavior of one-year-olds. In H. R. Shaffer (Ed.), The origins of human social relations (pp. 17–57). London: Academic Press.
   Google Scholar
• Ainsworth, M. D. S., Bell, S. M., & Stayton, D. F. (1974). Infant-mother attachment and social development: Socialization as a product of reciprocal responsiveness to signals. In M. P. M. Richards (Ed.), The integration of a child into a social world (pp. 99–135). New York, NY: Cambridge University Press.
   Google Scholar
• Ainsworth, M. D. S., Blehar, M. C., Waters, E., & Wall, S. (1978). Patterns of attachment. Hillsdale, NJ: Erlbaum.
   Google Scholar
• Ainsworth, M. D. S., & Marvin, R. S. (1995). On the shaping of attachment theory and research: An interview with Mary D. S. Ainsworth. Caregiving, Cultural, and Cognitive Perspectives on Secure-Base Behavior and Working Models: New Growing Points of Attachment Theory and Research. Monographs of the Society for Research in Child Development, 60 (2–3), 3–21.
   Google Scholar
• Ainsworth, M. D. S., & Wittig, B. A. (1969). Attachment and exploratory behavior of one- year-olds in a strange situation. In B. M. Foss (Ed.), Determinants of infant behaviour IV (pp. 111–136). London: Methuen.
   Google Scholar
• Atkinson, L., Paglia, A., Coolbear, J., Niccols, A., Leung, E., Poulton, L., … Chisholm, V. C. (2000). Assessing maternal sensitivity in the context of attachment security: A meta-analysis. In G. M. Tarabulsy, S. Larose, D. R. Pederson, & G. Moran (Eds.), Attachement et développement: Le rôle des premieres relations dans le développement humain [Attachment and development: The role of first relationships in human development] (pp. 27–56). Québec: Presses de l’Université du Québec.
   Google Scholar
• Bowlby, J. (1958). The nature of the child’s tie to his mother. International Journal of Psycho-Analysis, 39, 350–373.
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Bowlby, J. (1969/1982). Attachment and loss (Vol. I): Attachment. New York, NY: Basic Books.
   Google Scholar
• Bowlby, J. (1988). A secure-base. New York, NY: Basic Books Inc.
   Google Scholar
• Bretherton, I. (2003). Mary Ainsworth: Insightful observer and courageous theoretician. In G. A. Kimble & M. Wertheimer (Eds.), Portraits of pioneers in psychology (pp. 317–331). Hillsdale, NJ: Erlbaum.
   Google Scholar
• De Wolff, M. S., & van IJzendoorn, M. H. (1997). Sensitivity and attachment: A meta-analysis on parental antecedents of infant attachment. Child Development, 68, 571–591.
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Grossmann, K., Grossmann, K. E., Spangler, G., Suess, G., & Unzner, L. (1985). Maternal sensitivity and newborns’ orientation responses as related to quality of attachment in Northern Germany. Growing Points of Attachment Theory and Research. Monographs of the Society for Research in Child Development, 50 (1–2), 233–256.
   Google Scholar
• Kermoian, R., & Leiderman, P. H. (1986). Infant attachment to mother and child caretaker in an East African community. International Journal of Behavioral Development, 9, 455–469.
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Main, M. (1999). Mary D. Salter Ainsworth: Tribute and portrait. Psychoanalytic Inquiry, 19, 682–730.
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Moran, G., Pederson, D. R., Pettit, P., & Krupka, A. (1992). Maternal sensitivity and infant-mother attachment in a developmentally delayed sample. Infant Behavior and Development, 15, 427–442.
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Nakagawa, M., Lamb, M. E., & Miyake, K. (1992). Antecedents and correlates of the strange situation behavior of Japanese infants. Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology, 23, 300–310.
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Noblega, M. (2012). Conducta de base segura y sensibilidad en niños y madres del distrito de los Olivos (Unpublished Dissertation, Pontificia), Universidad Católica del Peru.
   Google Scholar
• Pederson, D. R., & Moran, G. (1995a). Maternal behavior Q-set. Caregiving, Cultural, and Cognitive Perspectives on Secure-Base Behavior and Working Models: New Growing Points of Attachment Theory and Research. Monographs of the Society for Research in Child Development, 60 (2–3), 247–254.
   Google Scholar
• Pederson, D. R., & Moran, G. (1995b). A categorical description of infant-mother relationships in the home and its relation to Q-sort measures of infant-mother interaction. Caregiving, Cultural, and Cognitive Perspectives on Secure-Base Behavior and Working Models: New Growing Points of Attachment Theory and Research. Monographs of the Society for Research in Child Development, 60 (2–3), 111–132.
   Google Scholar
• Pederson, D. R., Moran, G., Sitko, C., Campbell, K., Ghesquire, K., & Acton, H. (1990). Maternal sensitivity and the security of infant-mother attachment: A Q-sort study. Child Development, 61, 1974–1983.
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Peterson, N. J., Drotar, D., Olness, K., Guay, L., & Kiziri-Mayengo, R. (2001). The relationship of maternal and child HIV infection to security of attachment among Ugandan infants. Child Psychiatry and Human Development, 32, 3–17.
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Plata, S. J., Posada, G., Carbonell, O. A., Perez, J., Peña, P. A., Suarez, L. C., … Villanueva, C. (2012, January). Maternal secure base support and children’s secure base behavior in Colombian preschoolers. Paper presented at the 2nd. meeting of the Iberian-American Attachment Network. Santiago, Chile.
   Google Scholar
• Posada, G., Carbonell, O. A., Alzate, G., & Plata, S. J. (2004). Through Colombian lenses: Ethnographic and conventional analyses of maternal care and their associations with secure base behavior. Developmental Psychology, 40(4), 508–518.
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Posada, G., Carbonell, O. A., Kaloustian, G., & Lu, T. (2009, April). The maternal secure base support–child secure base use link in preschoolers: Findings in two different cultural groups. Poster presented at the meeting of the Society for Research in Child Development, Denver, Colorado.
   Google Scholar
• Posada, G., Gao, Y., Wu, F., Posada, R., Tascon, M., Schoelmerich, A., … Synnevaag, B. (1995). The secure-base phenomenon across cultures: Children’s behavior, mothers’ preferences, and experts’ concepts. In E. Waters, B. E. Vaughn, G. Posada, & K. Kondo-Ikemura (Eds.), Caregiving, Cultural, and Cognitive Perspectives on Secure-Base Behavior and Working Models: New Growing Points of Attachment Theory and Research. Monographs of the Society for Research in Child Development, 60(2–3), 27–48.
   Google Scholar
• Posada, G., Jacobs, A., Carbonell, O. A., Alzate, G., Bustamante, M. R., & Arenas, A. (1999). Maternal care and attachment security in ordinary and emergency contexts. Developmental Psychology, 35, 1379–1388.
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Posada, G., Jacobs, A., Richmond, M., Carbonell, O. A., Alzate, G., Bustamante, M. R., … Quiceno, J. (2002). Maternal caregiving and infant security in two cultures. Developmental Psychology, 38(1), 67–78.
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Posada, G., Kaloustian, G., Richmond, M. K., & Moreno, A. (2007). Maternal secure base support and preschoolers’ secure base behavior in natural environments. Attachment & Human Development, 9, 391–411.
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Posada, G., Lu, T., Trumbell, J., Kaloustian, G., Trudel, M., Plata, … Lay, K. L. (2013). Is the secure base phenomenon evident here, there, and anywhere? A cross-cultural study of child behavior and experts’ definitions. Child Development. doi:10.1111/cdev.12084
   Google Scholar
• Posada, G., Waters, E., Pederson, D. R., Moran, G., & Vaughn, B. (2014). Mary Ainsworth, ethology, and maternal sensitivity. In E. Waters, B. E. Vaughn, & H. S. Waters (Eds.), Measuring attachment. New York, NY: Guilford.
   Google Scholar
• Sagi, A., Lamb, M. E., Lewkowicz, K. S., Shoham, R., Dvir, R., & Estes, D. (1985). Security of infant–mother, –father, and –metapelet attachments among kibbutz-reared Israeli children. Growing Points of Attachment Theory and Research. Monographs of the Society for Research in Child Development, 50 (1–2), 257–275.
   Google Scholar
• Solomon, J., & George, C. (2008). The measurement of attachment security and related constructs in infancy and early childhood. In J. Cassidy & P. R. Shaver (Eds.), Handbook of attachment: Theory, research, and clinical applications (2nd ed., pp. 383–416). New York, NY: The Guilford Press.
   Google Scholar
• Spradley, J. P. (1979). The ethnographic interview. New York, NY: Holt, Rinehart & Winston.
   Google Scholar
• Spradley, J. P. (1980). Participant observation. New York, NY: Holt, Rinehart & Winston.
   Google Scholar
• Stevenson-Hinde, J., & Shouldice, A. (1995). Maternal interactions and self-reports related to attachment classification at 4.5 years. Child Development, 66, 583–596.
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Strauss, A. L. (1987). Qualitative analysis for social scientists. New York, NY: Cambridge University Press.
   Google Scholar
• Teti, D. M., & McGourty, S. (1996). Using mothers versus trained observers in assessing children’s secure base behavior: Theoretical and methodological considerations. Child Development, 67, 597–605.
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• van IJzendoorn, M. H., & Kroonenberg, P. M. (1988). Cross-cultural patterns of attachment: A meta-analysis of the strange situation. Child Development, 59, 147–156.
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• van IJzendoorn, M. H., & Sagi, A (2008). Cross-cultural patterns of attachment. In J. Cassidy, & P. R. Shaver (Eds.), Handbook of attachment (2nd ed., pp. 880–905). New York, NY: The Guilford Press.
   Google Scholar
• van IJzendoorn, M. H., Vereijken, C. M., Bakermans-Kranenburg, M. J., & Riksen-Walraven, J. M. (2004). Assessing attachment security with the attachment q-sort: Meta-analytic evidence for the validity of the observer AQS. Child Development, 75, 1188–1213.
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Waters, E. (1995). The Attachment Q-set (version 3). Caregiving, Cultural, and Cognitive Perspectives on Secure-Base Behavior and Working Models: New Growing Points of Attachment Theory and Research. Monographs of the Society for Research in Child Development, 60 (2–3), 234–246.
   Google Scholar
• Waters, E., & Cummings, E. M. (2000). A secure base from which to explore close relationships. Child Development, 71, 164–172.
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Waters, E., & Gao, Y. (1998). Parental secure base support and supervision Q-set. Unpublished manuscript. Department of Psychology, State University of New York, Sony Brook.
   Google Scholar
• Waters, E., Kondo-Ikemura, K., Posada, G., & Richters, J. E. (1991). Learning to love: Mechanisms and milestones. In M. R. Gunnar & L. A. Sroufe (Eds.), Self processes and development. Minnesota symposia on child psychology (Vol. 23, pp. 217–255). Hillsdale, NJ: Erlbaum.
   Google Scholar
• White, K. A., & Feldstein, S. (1994, June). Infants’ secure base behavior as assessed by the strange situation and the Q-sorts of mothers and observers: Comparisons within and across methods. Paper presented at the ninth International Conference on Infant Studies, Paris, France.
   Google Scholar