Only modest stability was found in attachment whether within or across classification systems, with the percentage of
insecure attachments consistently increasing over time.
Not exact matches
In a review of ambivalent
attachment literature, Cassidy and Berlin also found that observational research
consistently links ambivalent
insecure attachment to low maternal availability.
Insecure - avoidant infant - caregiver
attachment presumably results from the caregiver
consistently responding to the child's distress in ways that are rejecting.
Egeland emphasizes that security of
attachment during infancy has been
consistently shown to predict aspects of social development during childhood, with secure
attachment relating to more optimal developmental outcomes and
insecure attachment predicting socioemotional maladaptation.