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Article: Relationships between depression and attachment styles in parent- and institution-reared Turkish children.
- Article from:
- The Journal of Genetic Psychology
- Article date:
- September 1, 1993
- Author:
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ONE OF THE BASIC ASSUMPTIONS of attachment theory is that children's relationships with sensitive and responsive caretakers are important for their consequent psychological health. Children experiencing such relationships as infants are likely to develop schemata of secure relationships, whereas those who do not, are more likely to adopt either avoidant or anxious varieties of insecure relationship schemata. According to attachment theory, these early relationship schemata serve as prototypes affecting later relationships and self-schemata (Rutter, 1979, 1988). Nevertheless, effects of primary attachments may be moderated by later experiences. To our knowledge, there are no ...