Quality of Attachment in St Petersburg (Russian Federation): A sample of family-reared infants, Pleshkova and Muhamedrahimov (2001)

Scientific Paper

The study aimed to describe the quality of attachment in the sample of children living in
St Petersburg (Russian Federation). Up to the present there were no studies on quality of attachment
relationship among infants living in families in the Russian Federation (RF), including families living
in St Petersburg. The study results have an important value for understanding of development of
attachment patterns in a changing society with a previous history of being a totalitarian state. The
St Petersburg sample consisted of 130 children, living in families, aged 11–16 months old (mean
= 13.3 months). Children were living in largely normative low-risk families. The Strange Situation
Procedure was used (Ainsworth Blehar, Waters, & Wall, 1978). The attachment categories were
classified according to the criteria of the DMM model (Crittenden, 2002). Results presented
show that 50% of children showed the complex strategies (pre-A3–4 compulsive caregiving and
compliant, pre-C3–4 aggressive and feigned helpless, A/C). It was found that among a St Petersburg
sample of families there was small number of children with secure attachment pattern and many
children with complex attachment strategies

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