Isabella & Belskey: Caregiver-infant Interactions

Researcher(s): Isabella & Belsky

Date: 1991

Purpose: To see how caregiver-infant interactions affect attachment type

Findings:

• Reciprocal and synchronous = securely attached
• Intrusive and over-stimulating = insecurely-avoidant attached
• Under-involved or inconistent = insecurely-resistant attached

Evaluation:

• Suggest that reciprocity and interactional synchrony…