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...ult on Quality of Mother-Child Interaction Further planned contrasts supported our hypotheses in indicating that dyads including a secure child showed more balanced and open communication than dyads including children from each of the insecure groups. Moreover, insecure-organized children demonstrated higher qual¬ity interaction than did children from each of the insecure¬ disorganized groups. No differences were found between the dis¬organized subgroups. Maternal Psychosocial Functioning To examine how developmental changes in maternal psycho¬social functioning were associated with attachment and to test our hypotheses that mothers of children in the insecure groups (par¬ticularly the disorganized group) would report higher levels of difficulty than mothers of children in the secure group ducted a repeated measures ANOVA on both the maternal and child domains of parental stress maternal depression, and marital satisfaction. ' Results on Parental stress In summary; the hypothesis that mothers of children in the insecure groups would report greater child-related stress than mothers of children in the secure group was partly confirmed. Mothers of avoidant children reported more overall stress than, mothers of secure children. In addition, mothers, of secure; avoidant, and controlling-caregiving children reported decreasing levels of stress between preschool and early school-age, whereas mothers of ambivalent and controlling punitive children reported increasing child related stress over the same period. Results on Maternal depression We were unable to confirm the hypothesis that mothers of children in the D groups were more depressed than mothers of children in the other attachment groups. Results on Mar...