Security of Attachment and the Social Development of Cognition

Name: Security of Attachment and the Social Development of Cognition
Brand: Taylor & Francis

Taylor & Francis

Investigates how children's security of attachment in infancy is related to various aspects of their cognitive development over the preschool years. > \nSecurity of Attachment and the Social Development of Cognition investigates how children's security of attachment in infancy is related to various aspects of their cognitive development over the preschool years. The book thus constitutes an ambitious attempt to build bridges between the domains of social and cognitive development, and as such addresses issues which are of increasing interest to developmental psychologists. In the first two chapters, Meins outlines Bowlby's attachment theory and the research which it has inspired, and develops the theme of a secure attachment relationship providing children with a sense of themselves as effective agents in their interactions with the world (self-efficacy).\nThe next five chapters describe a longitudinal study of a sample of children whose security of attachment was assessed in infa.