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	== False categorization in attachment styles ==
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	The current '''Attachment styles''' section reads (to me at least) like it was based on a study that started out with three expected results and worked hard to verify them. It jumped out at me because I apparently belong to a fourth category that isn't listed, which for want of a better term I'll call "Unanxious insecure attachment". I've never been particularly attached to my mother (or any family member or friend), and, based on reports from my parents and elder relatives, was that way even as a small child. Nor am I the only one like this. I have a friend whose younger son is so detached from his nevertheless devoted mother that she, trying to understand his detachment even at 3 years old, once watched him (by covertly following him as he wandered off) calmly explore the length of an entire mall before her protective instincts overcame her need to understand her unusual child. (I'd had virtually no contact with this family, so he couldn't have gotten it from me, which also leads me to suspect this characteristic, while it may be uncommon, is far from rare.) I imagine that if either I (as a child) or my friend's child had participated in the study, we would have shown little distinction in exploration behavior regardless of who, if anyone, was in the room, as we both would have been far too self-involved. (Don't bother with the cracks; I freely admit my own asocial behavior.)
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	Nor was this the only categorical omission I noticed. Surely one might expect a few children to demonstrate no particular anxiety when a parent left a room, but still give indications that they were quite attached to their mothers. (Perhaps this would be "Secure attachment but detachable", or "Ultra-secure attachment"? I'm not trying to be funny, but it's hard to expand on these arbitrarily narrow terms.) Or was expression of separation anxiety the sole factor considered to demonstrate attachment? If so, it seems rather inadequate and misleadingly narrow.
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	I've neither done nor read any research that allows me to accurately edit this section to remove any ]. But one example that doesn't fit a categorization is enough to invalidate such false spectrum coverage, and I seriously doubt that either of the two others I mentioned is particularly rare, or that I haven't missed more alternatives. Is there someone who can discuss the failure of this section to address a more broad understanding of parental attachment? Does this truly represent the "state of the art" of developmental psychology? — ] 04:47, 2 Feb 2005 (UTC)
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	:Attachment Theory isn't the same thing as "feeling attached." You sound pretty secure to me, prossibly a bit on the avoidant side (this is my non-expert opinion). Also, it depends on how old you are. The Strange Situation only applies to very young children (1-2 years old or so). After that point, you cannot use the Srange Situation as a method of measurement for attachment. I would suggest finding someone to give you the AAI (see below) if you are really interested in your catagory of attachment. As far as children who don't care when their mother leaves, that is an indication of an avoidant child, but the child could still show secure attachment in other ways. Thus making them Secure-Avoident. No child (or adult for that matter) falls into exactly one catagory 100%. The catagories are not there to classify people into boxes, they are there to provide endpoints on a spectrum. People can be Secure and show Avoidant or Anxious tendencies. If you have insight or questions, I would suggest looking up a local Psychology professor and asking if they can answer your questions or point you to someone who can. Interesting post, I would like to hear what becomes of it --] 22:20, 8 March 2006 (UTC)
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	:<b>Attachment styles are well-established in current scientific literature.</b> Attachment styles are theoretical constructs that have been tested by different research groups in independent studies. People who have different attachment styles (as determined by standardized measurements) tend to respond differently on various other relationship factors. The fact that many studies by different researchers have found reliable patterns in attachment style correlations undermines claims of false categorization. At the same time, researchers have started to see attachment in terms of two dimensions: a dimension of anxiety about a relationship, and a dimension of avoidance within a relationship. Although you can still classify four attachment styles (high anxiety/high avoidance, high anxiety/low avoidance, low anxiety/high avoidance, low anxiety/low avoidance), many researchers simply use the measures of the two dimensions directly to correlate with other factors and test hypotheses. The section could make mention of this shift, but this would actually end up a fairly minor modification of the section. If anyone would like to know their attachment style, here's the actual questionnaire used in scientific studies: http://www.web-research-design.net/cgi-bin/crq/crq.pl ]
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			== Section 4 "Attachment styles in adults" citation & reference problems ==
	This page looks well structured to me. What is lacking in the page (as far as structure)?
	:there are hardly any wikilinks. there is room for lots in a 2 page article ] ] 20:46, August 5, 2005 (UTC)

			Hi all,
	== Attachment As Drive Fulfilment ==

			I'm concerned about some of the citations (or lack thereof) in section 4, (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/Attachment_theory#Attachment_styles_in_adults). There are several issues with the citations in this section:
	This quote, "Attachment theory assumes that humans are social beings; they do not just use other people to satisfy their drives", is surley incorrect.

			1. There are uncited passages throughout the section that editorialize about the relationship between adult attachment styles and romantic relationships;
	Standard Behaviourist school of thought on attachment theory rests solely on the mothers ability to satisfy the child's hunger, and Freud identified this and sexual fulfilment.

			2. many citations for descriptions of cognitive & social phenomena do not reference peer-reviewed academic material, but popular and 'grey' literature (e.g. nos. 93 & 95, possibly 94); and
	Unfortunatley, I do not have a knowledge of copyright laws, so I cannot quote at the moment, but the author of the page must surley be mistaken.

			3. some citations are written in parenthetical format, not in standard hyperlinked footnotes.
	*The concept of attachment theory requires reconstitution in light of the following:
	*Dependence Drive
	*Behavioral dependence is regarded as a drive with bimodal expression wherein the primary expression by the neonate elicits the secondary expression from the parent/caregiver.

			To address these issues, I propose:
	Dependence thus described is regarded as a drive due to the behavioral nature and the historicaly ancient and evolutionarily significant influence of the relevant activities. The drive should be regarded as nonhomeostatic in the same sense that sexual drive is but also as quixotic due to the mortal needs of the neonate. The evolutionary influence can be characterized as, the period of infantile, juevenile dependence can not exceed the capability of the parental response. This creates a dynamic which acts to both extend and curtail the duration of the primary dependence period.

			1. That uncited passages be immediately removed;
	Further, there should be a distinction made between the motivations of dependence attachments and attachments of mate selection or competitive sexual selection as well as incorporating the unique qualities of human competitive selection. Wherein, congregation for competitive selection evolved into congregation as competitive selection. All traits conducive to congregation (i.e. socialization/enculturation) thus become subject to the evolutionary influence of competitive selection. Therefore, the period of primary enculturation (psycho sexual stages) is a competitive process within the gestalt of the species and operates in close conjunction with the period of primary dependence. As these two motivations are not congruent and are somewhat incompatible, certain maladies can arise.

			2. references to non-peer-reviewed accounts of cognitive & social psychological phenomena be removed, their respective sections revised, and these descriptions replaced with rigorous, scholarly accounts of these complex human behaviors; and
	== Disorganized Attachment ==
	I think this subsection needs to be reworded or clarified. Maybe it's just me, but that section sounds like it's either too profound for my humble self to understand or it's complete B.S. The explanations of the other attachment types seem adequate though. -- ] 06:58, 14 December 2005

			3. citations be standardized according to the (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/Wikipedia:Citing_sources).
	It seems reasonable to me, Disorganized Attachment is a quirky thing. The description is very technical in nature and could probably be simplified to be understood by someone without a good deal of background in attachment theory :-P --] 22:00, 8 March 2006 (UTC)

			Doing so will improve both the content of the section and its legibility; in turn, these revisions will help bring the article up to the (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/Wikipedia:Citing_sources). ] (]) 14:44, 24 March 2022 (UTC)
	== Looks good to me ==

			:Yes! Thank you. Also the academic references that are cited are 30+ years old and need to be updated. ] (]) 03:13, 11 April 2022 (UTC)
	As a student of attachment theory i believe this page is well structured. However, I agree that the section about the sociality of humans needs to be changed. Bowlby specifically emphasized the idea of attachment as a homeostatic system where we use both our innate psychological abilities and physical abilities to gain proximity to our primary caregiver's. In many cases, this primary caregiver is our mother and essentially all of what we do as a young infant is keep her close to us so that we can feel a sense of security which in turn will allow us the mental freedom to explore the world. Popular wording for this is called the safe haven that is created by our caregivers. However, this safe haven is two fold; on the one hand, the safe haven is there to provide us with the sense of security needed to explore and on the other hand, it is necessary for the safe haven to act as a secure base by which we can rely on if we venture out too far into the real world and find ourselves in unfamiliar territory. I belive that there should be a link to some more recent research called the Circle of Security experiment that is being conducted in Seattle, Washington.
			:I agree, this section needs to be reworked with better citations and less vague language. I'm going to be slowly working specifically on the dismissive-avoidant section (which in my opinion is in the most dire need of complete revision), open to any and all help/input. ] (]) 14:38, 29 March 2023 (UTC)
			:Agreed. This sections seems to be influenced by the recent pop-psychology interest in attachment styles. While popular interest in the topic is welcomed, this page inherits some simplifications from that perspective. Most importantly, it takes a deficit-model approach. This both fails to reflect the actual theory and can be harmful to lay-people hoping to learn about themselves.
			:Is there a way to add a banner to this section noting the lack of citations to readers? ] (]) 00:09, 31 January 2024 (UTC)

			==Wiki Education assignment: History of Psychology==
	Also, i believe that the attachment classifications listed are correct. There are no false classifications present as was suggested in an earlier disccussion posting. Just because you don't believe your attachment pattern is present doesn't mean you can't fall under one of those categories. Granted, recently, there has been a push to expand the categories of attachment classification; however, there is good evidence that this would result in an over diagnosis of poor attachment as there is a fine line between functionally secure attachment and poor attachment.
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	:One note, a couple of the classification listed (anxious and avoidant) are usually associated with childhood attachment. In adults, these are referred to as Preoccupied and Dismissive (respectively). --] 14:46, 9 March 2006 (UTC)
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			<span class="wikied-assignment" style="font-size:85%;">— Assignment last updated by ] (]) 00:28, 9 April 2024 (UTC)</span>
	::Researchers have started to see attachment in terms of two dimensions: a dimension of anxiety about a relationship, and a dimension of avoidance within a relationship. Although you can still classify four attachment styles (high anxiety/high avoidance, high anxiety/low avoidance, low anxiety/high avoidance, low anxiety/low avoidance), many researchers simply use the measures of the two dimensions directly to correlate with other factors and test hypotheses. The section could make mention of this shift, but this would actually end up a fairly minor modification of the section. Not anything of pressing urgency. ]

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	== Adult Attachment Interview ==
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	Currently there is no information on this page concerning techniques for measuring attachment in adults. The Adult Attachment Interview is one such example. I am not an expert on the subject and it is a bit much for me to tackle, I think it is a noticable gap. --] 22:04, 8 March 2006 (UTC)

			<span class="wikied-assignment" style="font-size:85%;">— Assignment last updated by ] (]) 00:16, 18 April 2024 (UTC)</span>
	:This study might help some: (warning PDF file). It measures ''attachment anxiety'' and ''attachment avoidance'' with "self-report adult attachment instruments" (questionnaires). --] 15:11, 10 March 2006 (UTC)

			== Crime Section Additions ==
	:If anyone would like to know their attachment style, here's the actual questionnaire developed by Shaver and colleagues and used in scientific studies: http://www.web-research-design.net/cgi-bin/crq/crq.pl ]

			Added paragraph titled "Uses Within Probation Practice" under Crime. ] (]) 00:27, 2 May 2024 (UTC)
	Worthwhile doing something on Mary Main as well, who did loads at Berkeley on the transgenerational nature of attachment (and one of the most important issues) ] 00:29, 20 June 2006 (UTC)

	==~~Adults~~==		== Missing verb? ==
	Misplaced Pages needs some better coverage about the '''adult''' aspects of ''attachment''. It would take some time for me to figure out what to suggest though. Articles like ] have aspects of ''attachment avoidance'' in them, so any such project would likely need a lot of rethinking. --] 15:19, 10 March 2006 (UTC)

			This sentence - "When it comes to the opinions of others about themselves, they are very indifferent and are relatively hesitant to positive feedback from their peers." - reads like it should have a verb between "to" and "positive", like "to accept positive feedback". Maybe that's clarified in the reference, which I don't have access to. ] (]) 02:33, 25 June 2024 (UTC)
	:If I'm interpreting any of this wrong, please let me know, as I have not read the books on "love-shyness". --] 20:00, 10 March 2006 (UTC)

	:How does this relate to ]? --] 23:51, 12 March 2006 (UTC)

	:I agree. There has been a lot of research on attachment in adult romantic relationships. It would be interesting to know, for example, how it relates to outcome variables such as relationship duration and relationship satisfaction. It would interesting to know how attachment relates to jealousy, support, and intimacy (there are studies out there on these very issues). There are also gender differences in attachment that people in relationships might find interesting. ]

	==Citation==
	I think a citation providiing a reference for the "some think are cruel" recent addition would be useful. What do others think?
	] 16:42, 1 June 2006 (UTC)

	==Attachment Measures==
	The topic of attachment measures really deserves its own section. I removed some of the material I put in on the Shaver questionnaire because it did seem imbalanced to talk only about one method. I'll come back after I finish work on some other Misplaced Pages articles and, if someone hasn't already done it, create a section that deals with attachment measures. ]

	::I agree with that. I will add citations for the Adult Attachment Interview. ] 11:20, 16 June 2006 (UTC)

	==References==
	I tried to standardize the references using the < ref >< /ref > tags instead of the bullet points. Some of the works included in the references did not seem to have specific citations in the main article. I therefore moved them to a new section called recommended reading. Hope that's okay. I think a recommended reading section could even be expanded.

	==Controversial Points==
	Two points do seem somewhat controversial to me. These include:

	*"Attachment theory assumes that humans are social beings; they do not just use other people to satisfy their drives. In this way, attachment theory is similar to ]." To say we are social beings implies a need for social interactions to fulfill fundamental needs. Self-Determination Theory claims that relatedness is a fundamental human need, and relationship researchers influenced by Self-Determination Theory see attachment as the basis for satisfying the need of relatedness. I think this controversy <i>might</i> disappear if someone expanded on what is meant by not just using people to satisfy drives.

	::I agree with your point here ] 12:46, 17 June 2006 (UTC)
	:::I think non-organic Failure To Thrive does prove the need for relatedness to attachment figures, the question then is how 'social' is 'social' (ie. community or just attachment figures? Though then again, attachment provides the template for socialization..... ] 00:19, 20 June 2006 (UTC)

	*"] has become the dominant theory used today in the study of infant and toddler behavior and in the fields of infant mental health, treatment of children, and related fields." Attachment theory was indeed one of the most popular theories in developmental psychology for awhile. I don't think you can say it was ever <u>the</u> dominant theory, as there has always been popular alternatives, such as Piaget's work and the theories it inspired. I just finished a Ph.D. in developmental psychology at the University of Maryland at College Park in 2000. We briefly read about attachment theory as a historical theory in developmental psychology. Many, if not most, researchers in developmental psychologists are today influenced by cognitive psychology and neuroscience. The <i>Theory of Mind</i> in cognitive psychology, for example, has become a popular theoretical framework for understanding how children interact with others. I didn't really take an interest in attachment theory until I started reading about attachment in romantic relationships. However, I was never a therapist, so I don't know the extent to which therapists continue to rely on attachment theory.


	::I think that Attachment theory is the dominant theory in at least the filed of infant mental health. For example, see:
	:::1. Handbook of Infant Mental Health, edited by Charles Zeanah, MD., Guilford, NY, 1993.
	:::2. The primary journal for the field, Infant Mental Health Journal.
	:::3. Zero to Three journal and materials
	::It is true that other theories are frequently used in the study of infant and toddler behavior, depending on the subject of the research (cognitive issues, perception, etc.). However, infant and toddler mental mental health treatment and study seems to rely primarily on attachment theory. (BTW I also recieved my doctorate from the U of Maryland.) ::] 12:46, 17 June 2006 (UTC)

	:::You may be correct in terms of mental health (counseling and therapy). I question whether it dominates basic research in developmental psychology. There may indeed be a gap between basic research and mental health applications of attachment theory. That may be the theme...basic researchers in attachment theory have shifted attention from children to adults, but mental health professionals still rely on attachment theory in dealing with children and infants. How about a simple hedge, something like..."Although basic research in developmental psychology is influenced by many different theories, attachment theory predominates in the fields of infant and child mental health." Wording could be better, but you get the idea. ]


	::::I only wish it were the dominant theory! - however there are widespread practices, such as Controlled Crying, whose underlying principles conflict with Attachment Theory - there is alot of behaviourists and doctors with a biological focus treating children for mental health issues ] 00:19, 20 June 2006 (UTC)

	==Ideas for Expansions==
	I'd like to start some expansions on June 31 (collaboration most welcome!):

	*New section on the measurement of attachment. This would review the main methods for measuring attachment (giving equal hearing to each), and discuss some of the controversies regarding the use of different measures.

	*Revision of the styles of attachment section. The current section is a great start. Early researchers indeed proposed three main styles of attachment. However, later researchers broke the avoidant style into two types, forming four main styles of attachment (not including disorganized). Psychoetric analysis of the attachment questionnaire by Shaver and colleagues revealed two main dimensions of attachment. The trend in recent years has been to use the scores for the two dimensions for statistical analyses. Different combinations of the two dimensions still allow classification into the four main styles of attachment. I think all this needs to be mentioned to bring the section on attachment styles up to date.

	::There may be some differences between the attachment styles used in research about children (anxious, avoidant, ambivalent, disorganized) versus attachment styles used in research about adults. However, I am not as familiar with research on attachment styles and romantic relationships. ]

	:::This might be resolved by using your idea below of separating sections into children and adults. The section on adults could talk about changes in classification of attachment styles in adult studies. ]

	*New section on stability of attachment styles. Attachment theory has always claimed that attachment styles are learned through interactions with attachment figures, primarily the interaction with parents or caregivers during childhood. The learned nature of attachment styles means they can be changed by experience. The question is how much they can be changed. Bowlby theorized that children develop attachment styles that remain highly stable throughout the rest of their lives. Shaver and a number of his colleagues also view attachment styles as highly stable and therefore like personality traits. These theorists claim people bring the same attachment style to all their adult relationships. Yet, emprirical studies have called these views into question. Attachment styles show only moderate amounts of stability over time, rather than the high stability previously theorized, and people show different styles of attachment in different relationships. The explanation of these findings lies in the concept of working models.

	*New section on working models. Bowlby proposed that people develop working models of attachment. These working models consist of thoughts, or cognitions, about interactions between the self and the attachment figure. This idea has been extended considerably by advances in cognitive science. A number of studies have related working models to social cognitions. One study suggests that people create hierarchies of working models: they have a generalized working model that summarizes experiences from all relationships, and they have individual working models based on experiences in each relationship. The generalized working model may explain the moderate stability of attachment styles, while the individual working models may explain the variations in attachment observed across relationships and over time.

	*New section on attachment in adult romantic relationship. This section would look at correlations between attachment and various relationship phenomena such as satisfaction, duration, intimacy, jealousy, and so forth. Lots of citations to research would be included.


	::All these additions would be good. I wonder if it would make the article more readable to separate it into two parallel sections. One section about children and another about adults. If that were done, the article might be structured something like the following:
	:::1. Introduction. This section would have material common to both areas.
	:::2. Children. This section would then have sub-sections about the Strange Situation and other measures, Attachment styles, Treatment, Recommended Readings, See also, References, External links.
	:::3. Adults. This section would then have similiar sub-sections and others as appropriate to the subject matter.
	::In this way those readers interested in children or adults would not have to wade through material not as directly relevant to their interest.
	::Comments?
	::] 12:54, 17 June 2006 (UTC)

	:::That's a great idea. And I agree with putting the developmental sections first because it provides the historical context for what came later in the adult studies (for those reading the whole article). It may be hard to separate references into two sections because of the way the reference tags work, but if we keep the children's material first, all children's references will at least be in the upper half of the references section. Seprarate 'see also' and 'external links' sections would be fine as long we somehow make clear there are separate sections for children and adults. ]

	::Follow up - I hope you're okay with the changes I made to the section headings. Since a child's relationship to a parent is an intimate relationship (not sexually but emotionally), I thought it would help to explicitly mention the word adult. Also, there's some debate about whether adult friends count as attachment relationships, but romantic relationships are generally considered attachment relationships and are generally studied in the adult literature. Hence the word romantic. I'm less certain about the change from "Treatment" to "Attachment and psychotherapy." I considered "Attachment and mental health." I just think that, since the other headings start with the word attachment, it would be a nice alliteration to have this heading start with the word attachment as well. ]

	:::Comment on changes. These are very effective and postive. I like your ideas and I certainly support these. ] 17:38, 18 June 2006 (UTC)

	==Stubs for Sections on Adult Attachment==
	I added some proposed sections for adult attachment. I tried to stub enough information to give an idea of possible content. It's time for comments, suggestions, and changes. Once we arrive at some consensus on organization and content, I will work on expanding the sections. Help is always appreciated. ]

	:Your additions are very good. I was considering adding some information on the Adult Attachment Interview(Main & Hesse) either as a separate section or in one of the existing sections. How would you, and others, feel about that? I will await your comments. ] 11:34, 19 June 2006 (UTC)

	::Please feel free. The more collaboration we can get on these sections, polishing and refining them over the course of a few drafts, the better they will be in the long run. I'm not attached to the current organization of sections or their possible content (pun intended). Be bold--that's the Misplaced Pages philosophy. ]

	::I've begun to add material on narrative approaches to measure a child's pattern of attachment and the AAI. If this is ok, I will continue to add material and appropriate references. ] 22:39, 20 June 2006 (UTC)

	:::Please go ahead and start adding material and references on the AAI. I will start work on the self-report questionnaires. I hope you don't mind the organizational change I made. It seemed to me the AAI and self-report questionnaires are two valid ways of measuring adult attachment, so they belong as two subsections under the section dealing with measurement. If you don't like that idea, let's talk and find a more satisfying arrangement. Feel free to completely rewrite how the section on measurement begins--including removing the quote from Shaver and Fraley. I was just looking for a way to convey that there are two main approaches, both valid, and both worth getting to know. ]

	==Article Size==
	Whoops! We are already at 34 KB with this article. Misplaced Pages likes to keep its articles around the 32-50 KB range. We still have some room, but probably not as much as we think, before getting past 50 KB. The article is divided into main sections that direct readers to the topics that interest them. But are we getting to the point where we could have separate articles for children, adults, and therapy? The article on Attachment Theory could summarize and provide links to articles for attachment between children and caregivers, for attachment between adults, and for attachment in therapy. I don't care one way or the other...keeping it a long article is okay with me, and breaking it into separate articles is okay with me. What do others think?

	:I suggest that the article only mention measures (AAI, SSP, etc.) and that all the material on measures be put in one article titled something like, Measures of Attachment, or Attachment Realtionship Measures. Then in this article, there could be various links to that other page from citations of the measures and in the Also See section. What do others think?]

	::When I revised the article on ] I ended up breaking it out into several articles. What do you think about the way the article on ] handles pointing readers to related articles? Would something similar work for anything we move to separate articles for attachment theory? Also, just brainstorming here, but could we just make two articles, one for children's attachment and one for adult attachment, with the Attachment theory page pointing readers to those two articles? The children's attachment article could maintain the section on therapy, too, since I haven't seen too much about therapy and attachment in adults. Again, just putting out some ideas for consideration. I'm open to alternatives. ]

	:I don't feel comfortable breaking up this article without greater consensus on if and how it should be done. Maybe we should complete the current revisions and then see what we think. (The idea of an article devoted measurement is still a possibility.) ]

	== The graph is wrong ==

	The four-square illustration has the legend (Positive and Negative) across the top reversed.

	:Good catch. I'll correct the graph tonight (my graphics software is on my home pc). Until then I removed it. ]

	:Fixed. ]

	==Limit subheadings for adult attachment==
	As long as we stick with one article, I think we should limit the subheadings for adult attachment in the contents box. Too many headings is information overload for readers. Plus, the number of subheadings for adult attachment could give readers the false impression that more work has been done in adult attachment than in child attachment. So I designed some of the subheadings for adult attachment to not to show up in the contents box. If anyone wants to "clean" the article with standard Wiki formatting, please consider leaving these subheadings alone or using a standard Wiki subheading that does not show up in the contents box. ]

	==Proposal for Multiple Articles==
	* The Attachment theory article is now about twice the preferred size of Misplaced Pages articles. Please check out ] to see my proposal for breaking the article into multiple related articles.
	* The Attachment theory article briefly introduces Attachment theory. It also contains sections with summaries and links for each of the related articles.
	* The material on attachment measures was broken out into a new article.
	* The ] article was added to the list of related articles. The ] article needs to be considered, possibly by folding it into the Attachment disorder article.
	So what do people think? ]

	:I like most of what you propose.
	::*I think a brief article on Attachment Theory to intorduce it as you've written is good. I would only add that there should be a section on Theory in Practice that can then link to related articles: perhaps one about the use of attachment theory in the treatment of children and adults as well as links to specific approaches for which there are already pages.
	::*Measures article looks very good to me.
	] 14:54, 28 June 2006 (UTC)

	::I like the new changes proposed by kc62301 that take into account the previous suggestions. ] 17:21, 28 June 2006 (UTC)

	:::This looks very good to me. ] 02:37, 29 June 2006 (UTC)

	=Discussion After June 29th Revision=
	==Released June 29, 2006==
	* After getting a few positive comments, I decided to exercise the Misplaced Pages philosophy of being bold. I split the material on attachment theory into multiple articles.
	* It's my hope this will help readers more easily find material they are looking for, and help contributers integrate new articles into the existing Misplaced Pages articles.
	* I'm a big fan of the collaborative spirit of Misplaced Pages. I expect and welcome changes to the revisions I've made. Please feel free to be bold...I did. :-) ]

	:I like what you have done. This is excellent! Thanks for taking the lead on this. I like the remaining references to important sections and then links for more detail. ] 16:09, 30 June 2006 (UTC)

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Section 4 "Attachment styles in adults" citation & reference problems

Hi all,

I'm concerned about some of the citations (or lack thereof) in section 4, (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/Attachment_theory#Attachment_styles_in_adults). There are several issues with the citations in this section:

1. There are uncited passages throughout the section that editorialize about the relationship between adult attachment styles and romantic relationships;

2. many citations for descriptions of cognitive & social phenomena do not reference peer-reviewed academic material, but popular and 'grey' literature (e.g. nos. 93 & 95, possibly 94); and

3. some citations are written in parenthetical format, not in standard hyperlinked footnotes.

To address these issues, I propose:

1. That uncited passages be immediately removed;

2. references to non-peer-reviewed accounts of cognitive & social psychological phenomena be removed, their respective sections revised, and these descriptions replaced with rigorous, scholarly accounts of these complex human behaviors; and

3. citations be standardized according to the (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/Wikipedia:Citing_sources).

Doing so will improve both the content of the section and its legibility; in turn, these revisions will help bring the article up to the (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/Wikipedia:Citing_sources). 173.230.164.4 (talk) 14:44, 24 March 2022 (UTC)

Yes! Thank you. Also the academic references that are cited are 30+ years old and need to be updated. Wackthedrums (talk) 03:13, 11 April 2022 (UTC)

I agree, this section needs to be reworked with better citations and less vague language. I'm going to be slowly working specifically on the dismissive-avoidant section (which in my opinion is in the most dire need of complete revision), open to any and all help/input. RosieTime (talk) 14:38, 29 March 2023 (UTC)

Agreed. This sections seems to be influenced by the recent pop-psychology interest in attachment styles. While popular interest in the topic is welcomed, this page inherits some simplifications from that perspective. Most importantly, it takes a deficit-model approach. This both fails to reflect the actual theory and can be harmful to lay-people hoping to learn about themselves.

Is there a way to add a banner to this section noting the lack of citations to readers? TooManyFunFacts (talk) 00:09, 31 January 2024 (UTC)

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Missing verb?

This sentence - "When it comes to the opinions of others about themselves, they are very indifferent and are relatively hesitant to positive feedback from their peers." - reads like it should have a verb between "to" and "positive", like "to accept positive feedback". Maybe that's clarified in the reference, which I don't have access to. WilbaAtWikipedia (talk) 02:33, 25 June 2024 (UTC)

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