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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 Attachment & Human Development (IF 3.024) Pub Date : 2024-03-07 David Oppenheim, Nina Koren-Karie, Michal Slonim, Michal Mottes-Peleg, Efrat Sher-Censor, Smadar Dolev, Nurit Yirmiya
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 o...
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Oxytocin and state attachment responses to secure base support after stress in middle childhood Attachment & Human Development (IF 3.024) Pub Date : 2024-01-19 Bien Cuyvers, Marinus van IJzendoorn, Marian Bakermans-Kranenburg, Johan Verhaeghe, Geert Molenberghs, Ginette Lafit, Melisse Houbrechts, Guy Bosmans
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 a...
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What works for whom? Moderators in parental reflective functioning intervention Attachment & Human Development (IF 3.024) Pub Date : 2023-12-28 Atara Menashe-Grinberg, Sofie Rousseau, Naama Atzaba-Poria
The DUET program (a group intervention) aims to enhance parental reflective functioning (PRF). We examined whether pretreatment levels of key outcomes as well as individual parental and family-envi...
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The Protective Effects of Parent-Child Emotion Dialogues for Preschoolers Exposed to Intimate Partner Violence Attachment & Human Development (IF 3.024) Pub Date : 2023-12-28 Renee Lamoreau, Elsa Obus, Nina Koren-Karie, Sarah A. O. Gray
Exposure to intimate partner violence (IPV) during early childhood is associated with self-regulation difficulties. Caregivers can facilitate children’s self-regulation through emotion-focused conv...
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Anxious to detect deceit: an empirical investigation of social defense theory Attachment & Human Development (IF 3.024) Pub Date : 2023-12-28 Elizabeth B. Lozano, R. Chris Fraley
Social Defense Theory (SDT) states that anxious attachment reflects an adaptive sentinel strategy, whereby anxious people should be better able to detect lies than secure people. Existing research ...
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An exploration of ex-boarding school adults’ attachment styles and substance use behaviours Attachment & Human Development (IF 3.024) Pub Date : 2023-12-28 Natalie Wharton, Mariel Marcano-Olivier
Our study examines the relationship between boarding school attendance, adult attachment styles, parental bonding, and substance use, aiming was to quantitatively investigate if caregiver deprivati...
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The intergenerational transmission of attachment during middle childhood in lesbian, gay, and heterosexual parent families through assisted reproduction: The mediating role of reflective functioning Attachment & Human Development (IF 3.024) Pub Date : 2023-12-11 Nicola Carone, Marta Mirabella, Eleonora Innocenzi, Maria Quintigliano, Chiara Antoniucci, Demetria Manzi, Alexandro Fortunato, Guido Giovanardi, Anna Maria Speranza, Vittorio Lingiardi
The present study examined the attachment patterns distribution of 60 lesbian mothers, 50 gay fathers, and 42 heterosexual parents through assisted reproduction and their 76 children, using the Adu...
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Variants of Callous-unemotional traits in childhood: investigation of attachment profile and hostile attribution bias Attachment & Human Development (IF 3.024) Pub Date : 2023-11-07 M. Payot, C. Monseur, M. Stievenart
There is increasing evidence of interest in describing two variants of CallousUnemotional (CU) traits based on high (secondary variant) or low (primary variant) levels of anxiety. However, studies ...
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Triadic family interactions at 2 years: The role of prenatal marital quality and infants’ attachment configuration with mother and father Attachment & Human Development (IF 3.024) Pub Date : 2023-11-07 Ziyu Tian, Nancy Hazen, Deborah B Jacobvitz
This longitudinal study uncovered prenatal marital antecedents of infants’ attachment configurations with both mother and father at 12-15 months (n = 125). We also examined the contribution of both...
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Mentalizing in first-time fathers: reflective functioning as a mediator between attachment representation and sensitivity Attachment & Human Development (IF 3.024) Pub Date : 2023-11-07 Antonia Dinzinger, Selina Ismair, Karl Heinz Brisch, Wolfang Sperl, Audrey-Ann Deneault, Tobias Nolte, Wolfgang Hitzl, Beate Priewasser
Sensitivity in parent-child interaction is essential for child development. Since fathers are increasingly involved in childrearing, identifying factors leading to paternal sensitivity is crucial. ...
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Revisiting the debate on effects of parental power-assertive control in two longitudinal studies: early attachment security as a moderator Attachment & Human Development (IF 3.024) Pub Date : 2023-11-07 Lilly C. Bendel-Stenzel, Danming An, Grazyna Kochanska
Although there is a consensus that harsh, hostile, abusive discipline has uniformly adverse effects on children, scholars continue to debate implications of varying degrees of power assertion commo...
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Parental sensitivity modifies the associations between maternal prenatal stress exposure, autonomic nervous system functioning and infant temperament in a diverse, low-income sample Attachment & Human Development (IF 3.024) Pub Date : 2023-11-07 Karen Jones-Mason, Michael Coccia, Abbey Alkon, Kimberly Coleman-Phox Melanie Thomas, Barbara Laraia, Nancy Adler, Elissa S. Epel, Nicole R. Bush
Evidence suggests that adversity experienced during fetal development may shape infant physiologic functioning and temperament. Parental sensitivity is associated with child stress regulation and m...
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Childhood attachment security mediates the effect of childhood maltreatment chronicity on emotion regulation patterns in emerging adulthood Attachment & Human Development (IF 3.024) Pub Date : 2023-07-20 Jennifer M. Warmingham, Justin Russotti, Elizabeth D. Handley, Sheree L. Toth, Dante Cicchetti
ABSTRACT This study uses a 2-wave, longitudinal design to evaluate mother-child attachment security (child-reported) and emotion regulation capacities (wave 1, age 10-12) as mediators linking childhood maltreatment chronicity and emotion regulation (ER) patterns in emerging adulthood (wave 2; N = 399; 48.1% male; 77.2% Black/African-American, 11.3% White, 7.8% Hispanic, 3.8% other race). Children from
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Do Turkish mothers’ emotion regulation, psychological symptoms and caregiving helplessness vary based on attachment states of mind? Attachment & Human Development (IF 3.024) Pub Date : 2023-06-02 Gizem Arikan, A. Meltem Ustundag-Budak, Naz Toz, Gulenbaht Senturk
ABSTRACT Mothers’ emotion regulation, mental health, and feeling of helplessness in caring for their child may vary based on maternal attachment classifications. Particularly, insecure attachment and unresolved state of mind can act as risk factors. Therefore, we examined how emotion regulation strategies of suppression and cognitive reappraisal, maternal symptoms of depression and anxiety, and caregiving
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Cross-modal coherence and incoherence of early infant interactive behavior: links to attachment in infants born very preterm or full-term Attachment & Human Development (IF 3.024) Pub Date : 2023-05-08 Marina Fuertes, Ana Rita Almeida, Sandra Antunes, Marjorie Beeghly
ABSTRACT Infants exhibit flexibly organized configurations of facial, vocal, affective, and motor behavior during caregiver-infant interactions that convey convergent messages about their internal states and desires. Prior work documents that greater cross-modal discrepancy at 4 months predicts disorganized attachment. Here, we evaluated whether: very preterm (VPT) or full-term (FT) status predicts
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A deeper look at the association between childhood maltreatment and reflective functioning Attachment & Human Development (IF 3.024) Pub Date : 2023-05-02 Julia Garon-Bissonnette, Karine Dubois-Comtois, Diane St-Laurent, Nicolas Berthelot
ABSTRACT Childhood maltreatment is theorized as impeding the development of reflective functioning (RF; ability to perceive and interpret oneself and others in terms of mental states). However, previous research typically failed to support this association or yielded small sized and mixed associations. This study aims to provide a deeper look at the association between childhood maltreatment and RF
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Depression in middle childhood: secure base script as a cognitive diathesis in the relationship between daily stress and depressive symptoms Attachment & Human Development (IF 3.024) Pub Date : 2023-04-20 T. van Aswegen, S. Seedat, A. van Straten, L. Goossens, G. Bosmans
ABSTRACT A better understanding of protective factors against childhood depression may allow for the mitigation of severe and chronic symptoms and the timely implementation of intervention strategies. This study investigated the protective effect of having a secure base script on depressive symptoms when children face daily stressors. To test this hypothesis, moderation analyses were performed in a
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Innovations in attachment-based interventions in pandemic times: feasibility of online attachment-based interventions Attachment & Human Development (IF 3.024) Pub Date : 2023-04-04 Marinus H. van IJzendoorn, Marian J. Bakermans-Kranenburg
Published in Attachment & Human Development (Vol. 25, No. 2, 2023)
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Development of the virtual-VIPP and a systematic review of online support for families during the COVID-19 pandemic Attachment & Human Development (IF 3.024) Pub Date : 2023-04-04 Marinus H. van Ijzendoorn, Eloise Stevens, Marian J. Bakermans-Kranenburg
ABSTRACT During the COVID-19 pandemic lockdowns made it impossible for parenting coaches to reach the families without digital means of communication. Several studies were initiated to transform existing parenting interventions into hybrid or fully online versions and to examine their feasibility, acceptability and efficacy. We present one such transformation in detail, the Virtual-VIPP which is based
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eConnect: implementation and preliminary evaluation of a virtually delivered attachment-based parenting intervention during COVID-19 Attachment & Human Development (IF 3.024) Pub Date : 2023-04-04 Lin Bao, Marlene M. Moretti
ABSTRACT Connect, an attachment-based and trauma-informed parenting group intervention, has been demonstrated to improve adolescent mental health, parental wellbeing, and family functioning. We report on the online adaptation and delivery of Connect (eConnect) and pre-post treatment changes in parent, family and youth functioning in a clinical sample (N= 190) of parents of youth with serious mental
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In defense of unresolved attachment: re-modelling intergenerational transmission of attachment Attachment & Human Development (IF 3.024) Pub Date : 2023-03-18 Marinus H. van IJzendoorn, Naomichi Makino
ABSTRACT Intergenerational transmission of attachment is one of the core hypotheses of attachment theory. How parents or other caregivers look back on their childhood attachment experiences is suggested to shape their infants’ attachments. In the current paper, we show that a new twist to correspondence analysis (Canonical Correlation Analysis [CCA]) of cross-tabulated attachment classifications with
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A meta-analysis of the distribution of preschool and early childhood attachment as assessed in the strange situation procedure and its modified versions Attachment & Human Development (IF 3.024) Pub Date : 2023-03-10 Audrey-Ann Deneault, Jean-François Bureau, Robbie Duschinsky, Pasco Fearon, Sheri Madigan
ABSTRACT This meta-analysis synthesized the distribution of attachment classifications as coded with the Cassidy-Marvin Preschool Attachment Coding System and the Main-Cassidy Six-Year-Old System. These systems have extended scholars’ capacity to measure differences in the developing child-parent attachment relationship, and its sequelae, beyond the infancy period; however, the global distribution
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Seeing is believing: comment on the special issue concerning online interventions Attachment & Human Development (IF 3.024) Pub Date : 2023-02-28 Howard Steele
Published in Attachment & Human Development (Vol. 25, No. 2, 2023)
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Parental mentalization goes to school: a brief online mentalization-based intervention to improve parental academic support Attachment & Human Development (IF 3.024) Pub Date : 2023-02-27 Naama Gershy, Racheli Cohen, Naama Atzaba Poria
ABSTRACT Parental support of children’s learning contributes to children’s motivation, efficacy, and academic success. Nonetheless, in the context of homework, many parents struggle to offer adequate academic support and intervene in a manner that can curtail children’s academic progress. A mentalization-based online intervention was proposed for improving parental homework support. The intervention
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Telehealth delivery of modified attachment and biobehavioral catch-up: feasibility, acceptability, and lessons learned Attachment & Human Development (IF 3.024) Pub Date : 2023-02-20 Madelyn H. Labella, Marta Benito-Gomez, Emma T. Margolis, Jingchen Zhang, Mary Dozier
ABSTRACT The COVID-19 pandemic necessitated dramatic shifts in the delivery and evaluation of attachment-based home-visiting services. The pandemic disrupted a pilot randomized clinical trial of modified Attachment and Biobehavioral Catch-Up (mABC), an attachment-based intervention adapted for pregnant and peripartum mothers with opioid use disorders. We transitioned from in-person to telehealth delivery
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Longitudinal associations between mother-child attachment security in toddlerhood and white matter microstructure in late childhood: a preliminary investigation Attachment & Human Development (IF 3.024) Pub Date : 2023-02-15 Fanny Dégeilh, Élizabel Leblanc, Véronique Daneault, Miriam H. Beauchamp, Annie Bernier
ABSTRACT Early childhood experiences are considered to influence the strength and effectiveness of neural connections and thus the development of brain connectivity. As one of the most pervasive and potent early relational experiences, parent-child attachment is a prime candidate to account for experience-driven differences in brain development. Yet, knowledge of the effects of parent-child attachment
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Charting the social neuroscience of human attachment (SoNeAt) Attachment & Human Development (IF 3.024) Pub Date : 2023-02-02 Lars White, Melanie Kungl, Pascal Vrticka
ABSTRACT This introduction aims to set out the potential as well as some of the pitfalls of the newly emerging area of the Social Neuroscience of Human Attachment (SoNeAt). To organize and interconnect the burgeoning empirical studies in this line of research, including those in this special issue, we outline a programmatic framework including an extension of our conceptual proposals NAMA and NAMDA
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A “transmission gap” between research and practice? A Q-methodology study of perceptions of the application of attachment theory among clinicians working with children and among attachment researchers Attachment & Human Development (IF 3.024) Pub Date : 2022-11-17 Helen Beckwith, Marinus van IJzendoorn, Mark Freeston, Matt Woolgar, Paul Stenner, Robbie Duschinsky
ABSTRACT Clinical practitioners are frequently encouraged, through literature, training, and policy, to learn, understand, refer to and use their knowledge of attachment theory and research when working to meet the needs of children and families. However, there has been very little empirical study of how practitioners understand and perceive the relevance of attachment concepts and methods. Q-methodology
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Effects of maternal trauma and associated psychopathology on atypical maternal behavior and infant social withdrawal six months postpartum Attachment & Human Development (IF 3.024) Pub Date : 2022-11-13 Nina Burtchen, Mar Alvarez-Segura, Sébastien Urben, Chiara Giovanelli, Alan L. Mendelsohn, Antoine Guedeney, Daniel S. Schechter
ABSTRACT Maternal psychopathology given a history of maltreatment and domestic violence exposure increases the risk for child psychopathology. Infant social withdrawal is one warning sign of adverse developmental outcomes including child anxiety and depression. It remains unclear how maternal trauma-related psychopathology might affect infant social withdrawal six-months postpartum. Methods: One-hundred
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The combined contribution of maternal sensitivity and disrupted affective communication to infant attachment in an Israeli sample Attachment & Human Development (IF 3.024) Pub Date : 2022-11-12 Inbar Ariav-Paraira, David Oppenheim, Abraham Sagi-Schwartz
ABSTRACT Maternal sensitivity and disrupted communication are usually considered independently as antecedents of attachment security and attachment disorganization, respectively. This study examined whether considering them jointly allows specific predictions of attachment classifications. The sample (N = 159) was selected from a previous study conducted in Israel between 1991–1993, and over-represented
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Deactivating attachment strategies associate with early processing of facial emotion and familiarity in middle childhood: an ERP study Attachment & Human Development (IF 3.024) Pub Date : 2022-10-12 Melanie Kungl, Pascal Vrticka, Christine Heinisch, Matthias W. Beckmann, Peter A. Fasching, Clara Ziegler, Gottfried Spangler
ABSTRACT Neurophysiological evidence suggests associations between attachment and the neural processing of emotion expressions. This study asks whether this relationship is also evident in middle childhood, and how it is affected by facial familiarity. Attachment strategies (deactivation, hyperactivation) were assessed in 51 children (9 - 11 years) using a story stem completion task. Event-related
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Effects of intellectual disability and attachment on hostile intent attribution bias Attachment & Human Development (IF 3.024) Pub Date : 2022-08-23 Stéphanie Vanwalleghem, Raphaële Miljkovitch, Annie Vinter
ABSTRACT Understanding hostile intent attribution (HIA) seems important for prevention of problems in social adaptation. This study aimed to explore whether HIA in childhood is determined by both a cognitive factor (i.e. intellectual disability) and an affective factor (i.e. attachment representations). One hundred and eight 8- to 12-year-old children (54 with intellectual disability and 54 with typical
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Association between attachment anxiety and the gaze direction-related N170 Attachment & Human Development (IF 3.024) Pub Date : 2022-08-04 Nicolas Burra, Pascal Vrtička
ABSTRACT Attachment theory suggests that interindividual differences in attachment security versus insecurity (anxiety and avoidance) contribute to the ways in which people perceive social emotional signals, particularly from the human face. Among different facial features, eye gaze conveys crucial information for social interaction, with a straight gaze triggering different cognitive and emotional
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Concepts travel faster than thought: an empirical study of the use of attachment classifications in child protection investigations Attachment & Human Development (IF 3.024) Pub Date : 2022-06-12 Mårten Hammarlund, Pehr Granqvist, Sara Elfvik, Caroline Andram, Tommie Forslund
ABSTRACT Scholarly discussion suggests prevalent, overconfident use of attachment classifications in child protection (CP) investigations but no systematic research has examined actual prevalence, the methods used to derive such classifications, or their interpretations. We aimed to cover this gap using survey data from a nationally representative sample of Swedish CP workers (N = 191). Three key findings
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Attachment and brooding rumination during children’s transition to adolescence: the moderating role of effortful control Attachment & Human Development (IF 3.024) Pub Date : 2022-05-10 Jallu Lindblom, Guy Bosmans
ABSTRACT Brooding rumination is a maladaptive form of emotion regulation and confers a risk for psychopathology. Insecure attachment and low cognitive self-regulation are important antecedents of brooding. Yet, little is known about the developmental interplay between these two systems. Thus, we tested how children’s attachment and cognitive self-regulation, conceptualized as effortful control (EC)
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Attachment to fathers and mothers in preschoolers with an Autism Spectrum Disorder diagnosis Attachment & Human Development (IF 3.024) Pub Date : 2022-04-25 David Oppenheim, Nina Koren-Karie, Tirtsa Joels, Lior Hamburger, Yael Maccabi, Michal Slonim, Nurit Yirmiya
ABSTRACT We examined whether the Strange Situation Procedure (SSP) is applicable not only for assessing children with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) and their mothers but also with their fathers. Forty preschoolers with ASD were observed in the SSP with their mothers and 39 with their fathers. Unexpectedly, the SSP was found to be not applicable (NA) to 25% of the SSPs with fathers because levels of
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Do empathy and oxytocin predict responsiveness to a crying infant simulator in expecting and non-expecting couples? A multilevel study Attachment & Human Development (IF 3.024) Pub Date : 2022-04-19 Maria Kaźmierczak, Marinus H. van Ijzendoorn, Marian Bakermans-Kranenburg
ABSTRACT Infant crying is a strong emotional stimulus that elicits caregiving responses in adults. Here we examine the role of empathy (measured with the Polish version of Interpersonal Reactivity Index) and salivary oxytocin in modulating sensitive responsiveness to a crying infant simulator in two groups of heterosexual couples: 111 expecting or 110 not expecting a baby. Sensitive responsiveness
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Attachment theory’s core hypotheses in rural Andean Peru Attachment & Human Development (IF 3.024) Pub Date : 2022-04-07 Katherine Fourment, Magaly Nóblega, Judi Mesman
ABSTRACT This is the first study aiming to test two universality claims of attachment theory within a rural Andean sample from Cusco, Peru. A total of 69 mothers and their children (6 to 36 months) participated. Child attachment security was assessed with the Attachment Q-set (AQS), maternal sensitivity was measured during three naturalistic episodes (free interaction, bathing, and feeding) with the
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Correction Attachment & Human Development (IF 3.024) Pub Date : 2022-03-27
Published in Attachment & Human Development (Vol. 24, No. 4, 2022)
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Parents’ resolution of their child’s diagnosis: A scoping review Attachment & Human Development (IF 3.024) Pub Date : 2022-02-14 Efrat Sher-Censor, Ravit Shahar-Lahav
ABSTRACT This scoping review focused on parents’ resolution of their reactions to receiving a diagnosis for their child, based on Marvin and Pianta’s model and Reaction to Diagnosis Interview (RDI). We aimed to map the populations examined, the prevalence of parents’ narrated resolution, and what is known about its outcomes and determinants. A structured search identified 47 peer-reviewed papers published
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Taking perspective on attachment theory and research: nine fundamental questions Attachment & Human Development (IF 3.024) Pub Date : 2022-01-24 Ross A. Thompson, Jeffry A. Simpson, Lisa J. Berlin
ABSTRACT Since its inception more than 50 years ago, attachment theory has become one of the most influential viewpoints in the behavioral sciences. What have we learned during this period about its fundamental questions? In this paper, we summarize the conclusions of an inquiry into this question involving more than 75 researchers. Each responded to one of nine “fundamental questions” in attachment
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Scripted attachment representations of current romantic relationships: measurement and validation Attachment & Human Development (IF 3.024) Pub Date : 2021-12-28 Marissa D. Nivison, Katie M. DeWitt, Glenn I. Roisman, Theodore E. A. Waters
ABSTRACT This report describes the development and validation of a new coding system for the Current Relationship Interview (CRI) that assesses individual differences in secure base script knowledge with respect to adult romantic partners. Drawing on data from the Minnesota Longitudinal Study of Risk and Adaptation (N = 116) a coding system was developed to parallel the secure base script coding system
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The contributions of maternal oxytocin and maternal sensitivity to infant attachment security Attachment & Human Development (IF 3.024) Pub Date : 2021-12-28 Jane Kohlhoff, Lisa Karlov, Mark Dadds, Bryanne Barnett, Derrick Silove, Valsamma Eapen
ABSTRACT This study investigated links between maternal postnatal oxytocin, maternal sensitivity, and infant attachment security. At 3-months postpartum, participants (n=88) took part in a structured parent-infant interaction. Maternal oxytocin levels were assessed via blood, before and after the interaction. At 12-months postpartum, mother-child dyads completed the Strange Situation Procedure. Neither
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Failure to resolve loss and compromised mentalizing in female inpatients with major depressive disorder Attachment & Human Development (IF 3.024) Pub Date : 2021-12-24 Melitta Fischer-Kern, Anna Tmej, Andrea Naderer, Johannes Zimmermann, Tobias Nolte
ABSTRACT Attachment and mentalizing are central concepts in research on the etiology, course, and treatment of depression. The goal of this cross-sectional study was to clarify the unique value of these constructs in characterizing the presence, severity, and chronicity of depression. We examined 50 female inpatients suffering from Major Depressive Disorder (MDD) in comparison to 47 matched healthy
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Longitudinal associations between self-reported attachment dimensions and neurostructural development from adolescence to early adulthood Attachment & Human Development (IF 3.024) Pub Date : 2021-11-03 Lara MC Puhlmann, Mélodie Derome, Larisa Morosan, Deniz Kilicel, Pascal Vrtička, Martin Debbané
ABSTRACT The existing literature suggests that individual differences in attachment may be associated with differential trajectories of structural brain development. In addition to maturation during infancy and childhood, developmental trajectories are characteristic of adolescence, a period marked by increasingly complex interpersonal relationships and significant neurostructural and functional plasticity
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Can the family drawing be a useful tool for assessing attachment representations in children? A systematic review and meta-analysis Attachment & Human Development (IF 3.024) Pub Date : 2021-11-02 Cecilia Serena Pace, Stefania Muzi, Francesco Madera, Alessandra Sansò, Giulio Cesare Zavattini
ABSTRACT A systematic review and meta-analysis were conducted to evaluate the quality and validity of Family Drawings (FD) with an Attachment-Based Coding System in assessing attachment representations among pre-school and school-age children. A literature search in notable databases identified 645 records, of which 20 were eligible after screening and quality assessment. Results showed: 1) ABCD attachment
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Race, discrimination, and racism as “growing points” for consideration: attachment theory and research with African American families Attachment & Human Development (IF 3.024) Pub Date : 2021-10-26 Stephanie Irby Coard
ABSTRACT The author acknowledges attachment theory as a widely accepted analytic paradigm that has generated creative and impactful research for over half a century. This acknowledgment is followed with commentary on what the author considers critically relevant yet unacknowledged topics of inquiry in the attachment literature. The author contends that race, discrimination, and unaddressed systemic
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Longitudinal study of the cascading effects of racial discrimination on parenting and adjustment among African American youth Attachment & Human Development (IF 3.024) Pub Date : 2021-10-26 Velma McBride Murry, Catherine M. Gonzalez, Rachel A. Hanebutt, Dominique Bulgin, Erica E. Coates, Misha N. Inniss-Thompson, Marlena L. Debreaux, Walter E. Wilson, Dalton Abel, McKenna B. Cortez
ABSTRACT Attachment theory posits that parenting plays akey role in children’s attachment and subsequent development. Given the normativity of racial discrimination on everyday life experiences of African American families, there is a need to integrate historical and socio-environmental processes in studies to understand how minoritized parents raise secure and stable children. Results from the current
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Love in a time of anti-Blackness: social rank, attachment, and race in psychotherapy Attachment & Human Development (IF 3.024) Pub Date : 2021-10-21 Daniel J. Gaztambide
ABSTRACT This paper draws on critical race theory and research on attachment, social rank and dehumanization to theorize the implications of addressing anti-Blackness in psychotherapy with both Black and non-Black clients in the context of White Supremacy. Drawing on and critiquing a recent review of attachment theory and race, the author draws on historical and empirical research outlining the contours
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Commentary: attachment theory goes to school Attachment & Human Development (IF 3.024) Pub Date : 2021-10-14 Sandra Graham
Published in Attachment & Human Development (Vol. 24, No. 3, 2022)
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Inflammatory and environmental contributions to social information processing Attachment & Human Development (IF 3.024) Pub Date : 2021-10-08 Amanda Venta, Jeremy Bechelli, Johanna Bick, Trisha M. Brewer, Danielle Boisvert, Jessica Wells, Richard H. Lewis, Todd Armstrong
ABSTRACT It appears that social information processing is negatively affected by inflammation, but extant research is primarily experimental and comes from laboratory-based manipulations of inflammatory states. We aimed to examine interactions between inflammation, stressful life events, and positive memories of childhood relations with parents in relation to social information processing in 201 adults
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Neighborhood poverty, allostatic load, and changes in cellular aging in African American young adults: the moderating role of attachment Attachment & Human Development (IF 3.024) Pub Date : 2021-10-07 Katherine B. Ehrlich, Tianyi Yu, Aishat Sadiq, Gene H. Brody
ABSTRACT Attachment experiences are thought to contribute to physical health across the lifespan. Evidence suggests that attachment style may serve as a protective factor for individuals’ physical health by mitigating the negative effects of social and environmental risk factors. In the present study, we evaluated how attachment styles may moderate the link between African American adolescents’ exposure
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Mothers’ preparation for bias and responses to children’s distress predict positive adjustment among Black children: an attachment perspective Attachment & Human Development (IF 3.024) Pub Date : 2021-09-23 Angel S. Dunbar, Fantasy T. Lozada, Lydia HaRim Ahn, Esther M. Leerkes
ABSTRACT Traditional conceptualizations of maternal sensitivity overlook the adaptive function of some parenting behaviors. This study examined mothers’ preparation for bias, suppression responses, and supportive responses to their Black children’s distress as indicators of secure base provision at age five and predictors of children’s age six emotional and behavioral self-regulation. Participants
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Associations between Turkish incarcerated mothers’ sensitivity and their co-residing children’s attachment: The moderating role of children’s temperament Attachment & Human Development (IF 3.024) Pub Date : 2021-09-20 Zülal İşcanoğlu, Zehra Uçanok
ABSTRACT This study investigated the associations between incarcerated mothers’ sensitivity and their co-residing children’s attachment security. Furthermore, the moderating role of children’s temperament on the associations between maternal sensitivity and children’s attachment security was examined. The study sample consisted of 84 incarcerated mothers (Mage = 29.9, SD = 5.6) and their 12- to 43-month-old
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Working toward anti-racist perspectives in attachment theory, research, and practice Attachment & Human Development (IF 3.024) Pub Date : 2021-09-16 Jessica A. Stern, Oscar Barbarin, Jude Cassidy
ABSTRACT Recent social movements have illuminated systemic inequities in U.S. society, including within the social sciences. Thus, it is essential that attachment researchers and practitioners engage in reflection and action to work toward anti-racist perspectives in the field. Our aims in this paper are (1) to share the generative conversations and debates that arose in preparing the Special Issue
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Pathways linking attachment and depressive symptoms for Black and White adolescents: do race and neighborhood racism matter? Attachment & Human Development (IF 3.024) Pub Date : 2021-09-16 Jessica A. Stern, Jason D. Jones, Bridget M. Nortey, Carl W. Lejuez, Jude Cassidy
ABSTRACT Decades of evidence demonstrate that insecure attachment is associated with increased risk for depressive symptoms. Yet research has focused on predominantly White samples, with little attention to whether developmental pathways vary by social-contextual factors like racial identity and neighborhood racism. This study examines whether longitudinal links between attachment style and depressive
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Attachment research and anti-racism: learning from Black and Brown scholars Attachment & Human Development (IF 3.024) Pub Date : 2021-09-09 José M. Causadias, Kamryn S. Morris, Rodrigo A. Cárcamo, Helen A. Neville, Magaly Nóblega, Fernando Salinas-Quiroz, Jaime R. Silva
ABSTRACT Preliminary evidence suggests that people and scholars of African and/or Latin American and Caribbean origin are often under-represented in mainstream attachment scholarship. In this commentary, we highlight the difficulty of conducting attachment theory research outside of the United States, particularly in Latin American countries. We reflect on the contributions by the authors of this special
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Father–child attachment in Black families: risk and protective processes Attachment & Human Development (IF 3.024) Pub Date : 2021-09-09 Fanita A. Tyrell, Ann S. Masten
ABSTRACT Theoretical and empirical work on Black fathering has been grounded in a deficit perspective. Scholarship has focused on absenteeism and incarceration of Black fathers, neglecting their positive roles as well as the structural inequalities and challenges Black fathers face. This paper highlights the significance of positive fathering in Black youth development, with a focus on the protective
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Attachment perspectives on race, prejudice, and anti-racism: Introduction to the Special Issue Attachment & Human Development (IF 3.024) Pub Date : 2021-09-09 Jessica A. Stern, Oscar Barbarin, Jude Cassidy (Eds.)
ABSTRACT Central to attachment theory is the idea that behavior in close relationships can best be understood in context. Although decades of research have illuminated cross-cultural patterns of caregiving and attachment, there remains a critical need to increase research with African American families, examine the specific sociocultural context of systemic anti-Black racism, and integrate the rich
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Enhancing the “broaden-and-build” cycle of attachment security as a means of overcoming prejudice, discrimination, and racism Attachment & Human Development (IF 3.024) Pub Date : 2021-09-09 Mario Mikulincer, Phillip R. Shaver
ABSTRACT Attachment theory emphasizes both the importance of supportive relationship partners, beginning in infancy, for developing a sense of security, and the adaptive benefits of this sense. In this article, we consider bolstering the sense of attachment security as a means of reducing and overcoming prejudice, discrimination, and racism. We review basic concepts of attachment theory, focusing on