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The ICI does not conclude attachment strategies but it is highly correlated to the maternal scales in the infant Strange Situation assessment patterns of attachment. [19] It can be used in screening, to identify levels of risk, and as a tool for clinical intervention and evaluation and has been used in numerous research projects.
The strange situation is a procedure devised by Mary Ainsworth in the 1970s to observe attachment in children, that is relationships between a caregiver and child. It applies to children between the age of 9 to 30 months. Broadly speaking, the attachment styles were (1) secure and (2) insecure (ambivalent and avoidance).
The Affective Slider is an empirically validated digital scale for the self-assessment of affect composed of two slider controls that measure basic emotions in terms of pleasure and arousal, [6] which constitute a bidimensional emotional space called core affect, that can be used to map more complex conscious emotional states.
Culture guides our understanding, expectations, and interpretations of human emotion and behavior. [18] Cultural expectations of emotion are sometimes referred to as display rules, internalized through a socialization process. [19] [20] [21] The social consequences and valuation of different emotions also vary across cultures.
Cross-cultural psychology is the scientific study of human behavior and mental processes, including both their variability and invariance, under diverse cultural conditions. [1] Through expanding research methodologies to recognize cultural variance in behavior, language, and meaning it seeks to extend and develop psychology. [2]
[1] [2] Pivotal aspects of attachment theory include the observation that infants seek proximity to attachment figures, especially during stressful situations. [2] [3] Secure attachments are formed when caregivers are sensitive and responsive in social interactions, and consistently present, particularly between the ages of six months and two ...
[1] [2] [3] Attachment also describes the function of availability, which is the degree to which the authoritative figure is responsive to the child's needs and shares communication with them. Childhood attachment can define characteristics that will shape the child's sense of self, their forms of emotion-regulation, and how they carry out ...
The assessment has been used for children as young as 12-months [7] [8] and as old as 7 years-old. [4] However, the assessment was designed for children ages 24–52 months, or preschool aged. [2] The assessment is used to diagnose attachment disorders in caregiver-child dyads.