Ashley M Groh, Nanxi Xu, Madeline M Patrick, Rachael Robinson, Brooke Hoeferle, Katherine C Haydon
{"title":"Deactivation, hyperactivation, and anomalous content in the attachment script assessment: stability over time and significance for parenting behavior and physiology.","authors":"Ashley M Groh, Nanxi Xu, Madeline M Patrick, Rachael Robinson, Brooke Hoeferle, Katherine C Haydon","doi":"10.1080/14616734.2024.2367328","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14616734.2024.2367328","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>This study examined the stability of Attachment Script Assessment (ASA) deactivation, hyperactivation, and anomalous content and their significance for parenting outcomes in mothers (<i>M</i>age = 31 years; 78% White/European American) and 6-month-old infants. Comparable to ASA secure base script knowledge (SBSK), mothers' ASA deactivation, hyperactivation, and anomalous content were significantly, moderately stable over two years (<i>r</i>'s = .40 - .43). Mothers' ASA hyperactivation and anomalous content were associated with greater maternal intrusiveness, whereas ASA deactivation was associated with greater detachment and less intrusiveness. Only ASA anomalous content was associated with lower maternal sensitivity. Mothers' ASA deactivation was associated with less dynamic change in respiratory sinus arrhythmia during the Still-Face Procedure-reflective of limited mobilization of physiological resources to support responding to infants. Findings support the validity of ASA deactivation, hyperactivation, and anomalous content scripts, and demonstrate their utility in examining adult attachment stability and predictive significance for parent-child outcomes.</p>","PeriodicalId":8632,"journal":{"name":"Attachment & Human Development","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":3.3,"publicationDate":"2024-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141578879","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Lauren G. Bailes, Abigail Blum, Whitney Barnett, Hannah A. Piersiak, Sydney Takemoto, Brooke Fleming, Caelan Alexander, Kathryn L Humphreys
{"title":"Stressful life events and prenatal representations of the child.","authors":"Lauren G. Bailes, Abigail Blum, Whitney Barnett, Hannah A. Piersiak, Sydney Takemoto, Brooke Fleming, Caelan Alexander, Kathryn L Humphreys","doi":"10.1080/14616734.2024.2345242","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14616734.2024.2345242","url":null,"abstract":"Caregivers' mental representations of their children can be assessed prenatally and are prospectively associated with later caregiving quality and caregiver-child attachment. Compared to balanced, distorted or disengaged representations are linked to insecure caregiver-child attachments. The present study explored factors (i.e. stressful life experiences and positive experiences) that may be linked to risk for distorted and disengaged representations. We used a brief version of the Prenatal Working Model of the Child Interview in a sample of 298 pregnant people (ages 19 to 45 years; M = 30.83, SD = 5.00) between gestational age 11-38 weeks (M = 23.49, SD = 5.70). A greater number of stressful events across three developmental periods (i.e., lifespan, childhood, and pregnancy) were related to increased odds of distorted, compared to balanced classification. Pregnancy stress had the largest association. Positive experiences from childhood did not buffer the association between stress and representations. Findings highlight the importance of stress on prenatal representations of one's child.","PeriodicalId":8632,"journal":{"name":"Attachment & Human Development","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":3.2,"publicationDate":"2024-04-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140661135","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
A. Bernier, Sylvana M Côté, Gabrielle Leclerc, Célia Matte-Gagné, Camille Marquis-Brideau
{"title":"Revisiting the childcare-attachment question: under what conditions is childcare participation associated with mother-child attachment security?","authors":"A. Bernier, Sylvana M Côté, Gabrielle Leclerc, Célia Matte-Gagné, Camille Marquis-Brideau","doi":"10.1080/14616734.2024.2344521","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14616734.2024.2344521","url":null,"abstract":"Decades have passed since the controversy regarding the putative risks of childcare for mother-child attachment broke out. Yet, some uncertainty remains, as relevant studies have produced inconsistent evidence. Some have proposed that those conflicting findings may be due to the fact that the effects of childcare are conditioned on parenting. Accordingly, this study examined whether relations between childcare participation and mother-child attachment vary according to maternal sensitivity and autonomy support. In this sample of 236 mother-child dyads, there was no indication of main effects of childcare participation on attachment. There were, however, some interactive effects, such that the children who showed the least secure attachment behaviors were those who did not attend childcare and had either less sensitive or less autonomy-supportive mothers. The findings suggest that the effects of childcare on mother-child attachment are best understood in light of the parenting children receive at home.","PeriodicalId":8632,"journal":{"name":"Attachment & Human Development","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":3.2,"publicationDate":"2024-04-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140670151","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Frank C. P. van der Horst, Lenny van Rosmalen, René van der Veer
{"title":"The American contribution to attachment theory: John Bowlby’s WHO trip to the USA in 1950 and the development of his ideas on separation and attachment","authors":"Frank C. P. van der Horst, Lenny van Rosmalen, René van der Veer","doi":"10.1080/14616734.2024.2342665","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14616734.2024.2342665","url":null,"abstract":"This paper explores John Bowlby’s foundational contributions to attachment theory, particularly his fascination with ‘separation’ and its impact on child development. Tracing the origins of Bowlby’...","PeriodicalId":8632,"journal":{"name":"Attachment & Human Development","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":3.2,"publicationDate":"2024-04-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140609921","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Daniel Paquette, Karine Dubois-Comtois, Chantal Cyr, Jean-Pascal Lemelin, Fabien Bacro, Sophie Couture, Marc Bigras
{"title":"Early childhood attachment stability to mothers, fathers, and both parents as a network: associations with parents' well-being, marital relationship, and child behavior problems","authors":"Daniel Paquette, Karine Dubois-Comtois, Chantal Cyr, Jean-Pascal Lemelin, Fabien Bacro, Sophie Couture, Marc Bigras","doi":"10.1080/14616734.2024.2338089","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14616734.2024.2338089","url":null,"abstract":"This study examines the stability of child attachment to mothers and fathers separately, and to both parents as a network between the infancy and preschool periods using a sample of 143 biparental ...","PeriodicalId":8632,"journal":{"name":"Attachment & Human Development","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":3.2,"publicationDate":"2024-04-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140562556","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Anna R Smith, Jody Todd Manly, Jennifer M Warmingham, Michael Lynch
{"title":"Pilot examination of independent and interactive effects of maltreatment and neighborhood risk on child attachment.","authors":"Anna R Smith, Jody Todd Manly, Jennifer M Warmingham, Michael Lynch","doi":"10.1080/14616734.2024.2352848","DOIUrl":"10.1080/14616734.2024.2352848","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Elucidating the influence of microsystem and exosystem factors on development is an important goal of developmental psychopathology. This study examined the effects of maltreatment and neighborhood risk on child-caregiver attachment. Maltreatment records, neighborhood risk indices, and Strange Situation data were collected from a diverse sample of 170 four-year-old children and their caregivers. Relative contributions of maltreatment, neighborhood risk, and their interaction on attachment insecurity and disorganization were explored via latent moderation. Maltreated children demonstrated higher rates of insecure attachment, but not attachment disorganization, independent of neighborhood risk. Controlling for maltreatment, preliminary results suggested no effects of neighborhood risk on attachment. Findings support prior research that has identified maltreatment as a salient risk to the formation of secure attachment relationships. However, results add heterogeneity to the limited research investigating effects of neighborhood on attachment. Overall, this study highlights the importance of examining multilevel ecological risk in relation to attachment relationship development.</p>","PeriodicalId":8632,"journal":{"name":"Attachment & Human Development","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":3.2,"publicationDate":"2024-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11177790/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140954984","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Rachel R R Francois-Walcott, Rhia E Perks, Laura M Vowels, Katherine B Carnelley
{"title":"Insecure attachment and support-seeking during COVID-19: a sequential mixed methods investigation.","authors":"Rachel R R Francois-Walcott, Rhia E Perks, Laura M Vowels, Katherine B Carnelley","doi":"10.1080/14616734.2024.2349577","DOIUrl":"10.1080/14616734.2024.2349577","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The COVID-19 pandemic led many couples to stay at home together with minimal contact with others. As social distancing measures reduced contact with outside households, many partners could seek support only from one another. In two studies using a sequential mixed methods design, we investigated support-seeking behaviors in romantic relationships during COVID-19. In the qualitative study, semi-structured interviews (<i>n</i> = 48) showed differences in how and why partners seek support with an initial consideration of the role of attachment. We identified the following themes: direct support-seeking, indirect support-seeking, (in)dependence, and gender dynamics. In the quantitative study (<i>n</i> = 588), high COVID-19 worry, high attachment anxiety, and low attachment avoidance were associated with more support-seeking. Interestingly, we also found that when COVID-19 worry was high, individuals high in attachment avoidance were more likely to report seeking support. The paper provides a unique insight into the impact of COVID-19 on support-seeking behaviors in romantic relationships.</p>","PeriodicalId":8632,"journal":{"name":"Attachment & Human Development","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":3.2,"publicationDate":"2024-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140851284","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Stephanie G Craig, Alexis Dawson, Susan Chen, Marlene M Moretti, Debra J Pepler
{"title":"A systematic review of callous-unemotional traits and attachment in children and adolescents.","authors":"Stephanie G Craig, Alexis Dawson, Susan Chen, Marlene M Moretti, Debra J Pepler","doi":"10.1080/14616734.2024.2349569","DOIUrl":"10.1080/14616734.2024.2349569","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Methods: </strong>The systematic review and meta-analysis included 17 research articles from 1994 to 2022. Results were summarized by developmental periods.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>Attachment insecurity was associated with CU traits across development (r = .17). This association was marginally stronger for high-risk samples (e.g., clinical, justice) and for continuous attachment measures versus coding schemes. From early to middle childhood, attachment disorganization was associated with CU traits (r = .17).</p><p><strong>Implications: </strong>Research on attachment and CU traits in childhood is still in its infancy. Changes in attachment measures from childhood to adolescence make developmental comparisons difficult. Results suggest attachment as a potential developmental mechanism for youth with CU traits, however, the area requires more research.</p>","PeriodicalId":8632,"journal":{"name":"Attachment & Human Development","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":3.2,"publicationDate":"2024-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140847459","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Bien Cuyvers, Marinus van IJzendoorn, Marian Bakermans-Kranenburg, Johan Verhaeghe, Geert Molenberghs, Ginette Lafit, Melisse Houbrechts, Guy Bosmans
{"title":"Oxytocin and state attachment responses to secure base support after stress in middle childhood.","authors":"Bien Cuyvers, Marinus van IJzendoorn, Marian Bakermans-Kranenburg, Johan Verhaeghe, Geert Molenberghs, Ginette Lafit, Melisse Houbrechts, Guy Bosmans","doi":"10.1080/14616734.2024.2304874","DOIUrl":"10.1080/14616734.2024.2304874","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>We tried to replicate the finding that receiving care increases children's oxytocin and secure state attachment levels, and tested whether secure trait attachment moderates the oxytocin and state attachment response to care. 109 children (9-11 years old; M = 9.59; SD = 0.63; 34.9% boys) participated in a within-subject experiment. After stress induction (Trier Social Stress Test), children first remained alone and then received maternal secure base support. Salivary oxytocin was measured eight times. Secure trait and state attachment were measured with questionnaires, and Secure Base Script knowledge was assessed. Oxytocin levels increased after receiving secure base support from mother after having been alone. Secure state attachment changed less. Trait attachment and Secure Base Script knowledge did not moderate oxytocin or state attachment responses to support. This might mean that, regardless of the attachment history, in-the-moment positive attachment experiences might have a beneficial effect on trait attachment development in middle childhood.</p>","PeriodicalId":8632,"journal":{"name":"Attachment & Human Development","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":3.2,"publicationDate":"2024-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139490780","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
David Oppenheim, Nina Koren-Karie, Michal Slonim, Michal Mottes-Peleg, Efrat Sher-Censor, Smadar Dolev, Nurit Yirmiya
{"title":"Maternal and paternal insightfulness and reaction to the diagnosis in families of preschoolers with Autism spectrum disorder: associations with observed parental sensitivity and inter-parent interaction.","authors":"David Oppenheim, Nina Koren-Karie, Michal Slonim, Michal Mottes-Peleg, Efrat Sher-Censor, Smadar Dolev, Nurit Yirmiya","doi":"10.1080/14616734.2024.2326416","DOIUrl":"10.1080/14616734.2024.2326416","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Sensitivity among parents of children with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) is based on parental insightfulness and on resolution regarding the child's diagnosis. This has been supported in studies of mothers, and we examined whether the same is true regarding fathers. Also, we asked whether parents' Insightfulness and Resolution tap general mentalization and therefore also be expressed in parent-parent interactions. Eighty preschooler boys with ASD and both of their parents participated. As expected, fathers who were more insightful and mothers who were more resolved were more sensitive. Contrary to expectations, no associations were found between fathers' resolution and mothers' insightfulness and their sensitivity. Associations were found between parental insightfulness and resolution and positive parent-parent interaction. The findings are the first to demonstrate the insightfulness-sensitivity link among fathers of children with ASD. Also, they suggest that both insightfulness and resolution involve general mentalization that is evident both in parent-child and parent-parent interactions.</p>","PeriodicalId":8632,"journal":{"name":"Attachment & Human Development","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":3.2,"publicationDate":"2024-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140048649","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}