Securely and insecurely attached children with low-risk family environments and low ratings on negativity had similar likelihood of showing the problem trajectory.
Fearful toddlers who were also insecurely attached exhibited elevated cortisol levels.
The 2 x 2 table provided information about the frequency with which the child responded securely or insecurely to both rejecting and nurturant parent behaviors.
The reader should appreciate how insecurely founded are the various ideas, although there is no shortage of circumstantial evidence.
Among insecurely attached children, economic risk accounted for 60% of the variance in total depressive symptoms.
However, differential rates for securely and insecurely attached children were pronounced for contexts with risk in the domains of family ecology, infant negativity, or both.
A stronger test of a protective effect is a direct comparison between securely and insecurely attached children within the same context.
Despite the differences between securely and insecurely attached children in these high-risk situations, the two direct comparisons are not statistically significant.
