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The authors examined whether the finding of a correspondence between specif
ic behavioral patterns of attachment in infancy and childhood and specific
representational patterns in childhood could be replicated using children's
responses to a story depicting an imagined parent-child separation experie
nce. The participants were 33 German mothers and their children (16 girls,
17 boys). Attachment quality was assessed via standard and exploratory atta
chment observations at ages 12 months, 18 months, and 6 years. Chi-square a
nalyses indicated that there was a good level of concordance between the be
havioral and representation attachment patterns in infancy and childhood.