www.psychspace.com心理学空间网 REFINING ATTACHMENT THEORY AND RESEARCH:
BOWLBY AND AINSWORTH
Before the publication of “The Nature of the Child’s Tie to His Mother” in 1958, Mary
Ainsworth received a preprint of the paper from John Bowlby. This event led Bowlby and
Ainsworth to renew their close intellectual collaboration. Ainsworth’s subsequent analysis of data
from her Ganda project (Ainsworth 1963, 1967) influenced and was influenced by Bowlby’s
reformulation of attachment theory (published in 1969). In this sharing of ideas, Ainsworth’s
theoretical contribution to Bowlby’s presentation of the ontogeny of human attachment cannot be
overestimated.
Findings From Ainsworth’s Ganda Project
BOWLBY AND AINSWORTH
Before the publication of “The Nature of the Child’s Tie to His Mother” in 1958, Mary
Ainsworth received a preprint of the paper from John Bowlby. This event led Bowlby and
Ainsworth to renew their close intellectual collaboration. Ainsworth’s subsequent analysis of data
from her Ganda project (Ainsworth 1963, 1967) influenced and was influenced by Bowlby’s
reformulation of attachment theory (published in 1969). In this sharing of ideas, Ainsworth’s
theoretical contribution to Bowlby’s presentation of the ontogeny of human attachment cannot be
overestimated.
Findings From Ainsworth’s Ganda Project