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An experimental manipulation of retrospectively defined earned and continuous attachment security.Roisman GI, Fortuna K, Holland A Department of Psychology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, IL 61820, USA. roisman@uiuc.edu Recent longitudinal data suggest that retrospectively defined earned-secures are not more likely than continuous-secures to have been anxiously attached to their mothers in infancy and indeed experience high-quality maternal parenting in childhood. Such findings leave unanswered the question of why earned-secures report negative childhood experiences. On the basis of speculation that earned-security may result from depression-related biases in the recall of early experiences, this report describes the effects of an experimental mood induction on the valence of young adults' (18-25 years) life narratives as assessed in the Adult Attachment Interview. Among secure adults, individuals in a sadness condition were more likely to be classified as earned-secure; happy participants were more likely to be classified as continuous-secure. Induced mood was unrelated to security versus insecurity. Published 7 February 2006 in Child Dev, 77(1): 59-71.
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