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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2017 Sep 24.
Published in final edited form as: Dev Psychopathol. 2017 May;29(2):365–378. doi: 10.1017/S0954579417000049

Table 5.

Differences between parents of children adopted internationally, foster parents, parents living in poverty and referred to Child Protective Services, and lower-risk parents for the Adult Attachment Interview dimensions

AAI Dismissing AAI Preoccupied


Basic Model Including Covariates Basic Model Including Covariates




β p β p β p β p
Internationally adoptive parents
 Versus community parents −0.21 <.01 −0.17 .03 0.13 .06 0.09 .25
 Versus poverty/CPS-referred parents −0.27 <.01 0.15 .12 −0.23 <.01 −0.32 <.01
Foster parents
 Versus community parents −0.01 .74 −0.01 .87 0.15 <.01 0.11 .08
 Versus poverty/CPS-referred parents −0.12 <.01 0.09 .10 −0.19 <.01 −0.16 <.01
 Versus internationally adoptive parents 0.17 <.01 −0.04 .54 0.06 .22 0.01 .86

Note: AAI, Adult Attachment Interview; CPS, Child Protective Services. Data for community parents are drawn from Haltigan, Leerkes, Supple, and Calkins (2014).