Researchers, Carlson, Hostinar, Mliner, and Gunnar (2014) examined the formation of attachment in post-institutionalized (PI) infants and their adoptive parents following early social deprivation. The sample was comprised of 65 (PI) toddlers with their parents at 1-3 and 7-9 months post-adoption who were compared to 52 non-adopted (NA) infants. Each parent-child dyad were instructed to participate in a 1.5 hour laboratory sessions at 1-3 and 7-9 months post-adoption. The sessions were videotaped and consisted of 10 segments: a 10-min Disinhibited Social Approach procedure, in which the parent was discouraged from interacting with the child and the experimenter was present, being neutral initially but increasingly friendly; a modified Strange
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The first dimension, attachment formation regards the extent to which a child differentiates familiar adults to non-familiar adults, and where the child will display preference for a certain caregiver. The second dimension, attachment organization, refers to a coherent pattern in which a child’s behaviors and/or strategies that maintain proximity to the caregiver, particularly when confronted with a stressful, or fearful situation. In addition, (Carlson et al., 2014) utilized the Attachment Q-Sort which is appropriate for use with children between 12 and 48 months; this measure has been reliably associated Strange Situation classification security. The results depicted that children exposed to greater pre-adoption adversity took longer to form an attachment to their adoptive parents, however, children at 7-9 months of age post-adoption, almost all (90%) of the children reached the highest level on an attachment formation rating …show more content…
The outcome of the study developed some limitations that consisted of gaps in information about pre-adoptive experiences; these gaps hindered the attempts to isolate certain pathways to the current behavior for disorganized patterns of attachment (Fogel, 2015). Since, the comparison group was a high-socioeconomic status, low-risk sample with high rates of attachment security and low rates of disorganization, this may limit generalizability to other populations (Fogel, 2015). A suggested alternative approach: to use individuals for the comparison group with divergent socio-economic
The first dimension, attachment formation regards the extent to which a child differentiates familiar adults to non-familiar adults, and where the child will display preference for a certain caregiver. The second dimension, attachment organization, refers to a coherent pattern in which a child’s behaviors and/or strategies that maintain proximity to the caregiver, particularly when confronted with a stressful, or fearful situation. In addition, (Carlson et al., 2014) utilized the Attachment Q-Sort which is appropriate for use with children between 12 and 48 months; this measure has been reliably associated Strange Situation classification security. The results depicted that children exposed to greater pre-adoption adversity took longer to form an attachment to their adoptive parents, however, children at 7-9 months of age post-adoption, almost all (90%) of the children reached the highest level on an attachment formation rating …show more content…
The outcome of the study developed some limitations that consisted of gaps in information about pre-adoptive experiences; these gaps hindered the attempts to isolate certain pathways to the current behavior for disorganized patterns of attachment (Fogel, 2015). Since, the comparison group was a high-socioeconomic status, low-risk sample with high rates of attachment security and low rates of disorganization, this may limit generalizability to other populations (Fogel, 2015). A suggested alternative approach: to use individuals for the comparison group with divergent socio-economic