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Then and now: the legacy and future of attachment research Attachment & Human Development (IF 2.656) Pub Date : 2021-04-19 L. Alan Sroufe
ABSTRACT Attachment theory rescued psychology from the choice between an untestable psychoanalytic, drive reduction theory and behaviorist positions that were incapable of accounting for development. Theory and research on attachment over the last 5 decades advanced knowledge on vital topics such as the emergence of the self, emotion regulation, resilience, and mental representations. The success of
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Parental support and insecure attachment development: the cortisol stress response as a moderator Attachment & Human Development (IF 2.656) Pub Date : 2021-04-19 M. Houbrechts, B. Cuyvers, L. Goossens, P. Bijttebier, A. S. Bröhl, F. Calders, V. Chubar, S. Claes, F. Geukens, K. Van Leeuwen, W. Van Den Noortgate, S. Weyn, G. Bosmans
ABSTRACT The current study investigated whether variations at the level of the cortisol stress response moderate the association between parental support and attachment development. To test this hypothesis, we conducted a one-year longitudinal study with two waves in which 101 children (56% girls, Mage = 11.15, SDage = 0.70) participated. Attachment anxiety and avoidance were measured at baseline (Wave
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Multisystem physiological reactivity during help-seeking for attachment needs in school-aged children: differences as a function of attachment Attachment & Human Development (IF 2.656) Pub Date : 2021-04-15 Jessica L. Borelli, Gerin Gaskin, Patricia Smiley, Debbie Chung, Ben Shahar, Guy Bosmans
ABSTRACT In this study, we sought to expand on what is currently known regarding autonomic nervous system (ANS) reactivity in middle childhood as a function of attachment. ANS activity includes multiple indices – respiratory sinus arrhythmia (RSA) is an index of parasympathetic nervous system activation (PNS) and electrodermal activity (EDA) is an index of sympathetic nervous system activation (SNS)
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Children’s emerging receptive, positive orientation toward their parents in the network of early attachment relationships Attachment & Human Development (IF 2.656) Pub Date : 2021-04-06 Danming An, Grazyna Kochanska, Nicole Yeager, Neevetha Sivagurunathan, Rochelle Praska, Robin Campbell, Sung Yi Shin
ABSTRACT Early security plays a major role in inaugurating the child’s receptive, positive orientation – a foundation for cooperative parent-child relationships and successful socialization. However, few studies have considered the association between children’s attachments with both mothers and fathers and multiple aspects of children’s receptive, positive orientation, or compared all four attachment
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Attachment hierarchy in Japan: examining the validity of important people interview in Japanese young adults Attachment & Human Development (IF 2.656) Pub Date : 2021-04-01 Tomotaka Umemura, Sonoka Fusamune, Kazumi Sugimura
ABSTRACT To assess young people’s attachment hierarchy, the Important People Interview (IPI) was developed based on Bowlby’s conceptualization of ethological behavioral systems. The present study examined the validity of the IPI in a sample of Japanese young adults (N = 472; Mage = 20.34, SD = 1.28; females = 53.81%), because Bowlby’s behavioral systems conceptualization has been assumed to be universal
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Mothers’ parental mentalization, attachment dimensions and mother-infant relational patterns Attachment & Human Development (IF 2.656) Pub Date : 2021-03-17 Daphna G. Dollberg
ABSTRACT We examined the links between mothers’ prenatal attachment dimensions, parental mentalization and mother-infant relational patterns. The sample consisted of 68 mother-infant dyads. During pregnancy, mothers reported on attachment-related anxiety and avoidance. When the infants were three months old, the mothers’ parental reflective functioning (PRF) was assessed via the PDI-R2-S interview
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Multiple facets of attachment in residential-care, late adopted, and community adolescents: an interview-based comparative study Attachment & Human Development (IF 2.656) Pub Date : 2021-03-15 Stefania Muzi, Cecilia Serena Pace
ABSTRACT In this study, 117 adolescents (12–19 years) from three groups (39 each), two groups from adverse caregiving environments as placed in residential-care (RC; i.e. istitutions) or late-adopted (LA; i.e. adopted after 12 months), and one of low-risk community adolescents (COM), were compared for the attachment distribution of categories in the Friends and Family Interview (FFI), and in several
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Attachment dimensions and cortisol responses during the strange situation among young children adopted internationally Attachment & Human Development (IF 2.656) Pub Date : 2021-03-15 Nila Shakiba, K. Lee Raby
ABSTRACT Children’s attachments to their parents may help regulate their hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal (HPA) axes. Prior research has largely focused on children with relatively consistent and low-risk caregiving histories, resulting in limited knowledge about the associations between attachment quality and HPA axis reactivity among children who have experienced early adversity. This study investigated
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Attachment and attitudes toward children: effects of security priming in parents and non-parents Attachment & Human Development (IF 2.656) Pub Date : 2021-02-09 Jason D. Jones, Jessica A. Stern, Megan H. Fitter, Mario Mikulincer, Phillip R. Shaver, Jude Cassidy
ABSTRACT The present two-study investigation is the first to examine whether experimentally boosting attachment security (security priming) affects attitudes in the parenting domain for both parents and non-parents. Mothers (n = 72) and childless undergraduates (n = 82) were randomly assigned to a neutral or a secure prime condition and then completed measures of implicit attitudes (a child-focused
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Adult attachment is related to maternal neural response to infant cues: an ERP study Attachment & Human Development (IF 2.656) Pub Date : 2021-02-01 Amanda F. Lowell, Jaclyn Dell, Marc N. Potenza, Lane Strathearn, Linda C. Mayes, Helena J. V. Rutherford
ABSTRACT Maternal attachment security is an important predictor of caregiving . However, little is known regarding the neurobiological mechanisms by which attachment influences processing of infant cues, a critical component of caregiving. We examined whether attachment security, measured by the Adult Attachment Interview, might relate to neural responses to infant cues using event-related potentials
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The significance of mothers’ attachment representations for vagal responding during interactions with infants Attachment & Human Development (IF 2.656) Pub Date : 2021-01-22 Nanxi Xu, Ashley M. Groh
ABSTRACT Little is known about the significance of mothers’ attachment for neurobiological responding during interactions with infants. To address this gap, this study examined links between mothers’ (N = 139) attachment representations and dynamic change in respiratory sinus arrhythmia (RSA) while interacting with infants in the Still-Face Procedure (SFP). Mothers higher on secure base script knowledge
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Brain responses to social cues of attachment in mid-childhood Attachment & Human Development (IF 2.656) Pub Date : 2021-01-19 Margerete J.S. Schoett, Ulrike Basten, Ralf Deichmann, Christian J. Fiebach, Tamara Fischmann
ABSTRACT Physical separation from caregivers activates attachment-related behaviors. However, neural underpinnings of this biological mechanism in humans and their development are poorly understood. We examined via functional MRI brain responses to pictorial representations of separation as a function of attachment-security, attachment-avoidance, and attachment-anxiety measured using the Child-Attachment-Interview
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Infant mental health home visiting: intervention dosage and therapist experience interact to support improvements in maternal reflective functioning Attachment & Human Development (IF 2.656) Pub Date : 2021-01-11 Ann M. Stacks, Jennifer M. Jester, Kristyn Wong, Alissa Huth-Bocks, Holly Brophy-Herb, Jamie Lawler, Jessica Riggs, Julie Ribaudo, Maria Muzik, Katherine L. Rosenblum
ABSTRACT This study examined changes in parental reflective functioning (PRF) among mothers enrolled in Infant Mental Health-Home Visiting (IMH-HV) and explored whether parental risk, treatment dosage or therapist experience predicted change in PRF. Participants included 75 mothers and their children who were enrolled in IMH-HV delivered by Community Mental Health therapists. Results indicated significant
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Attachment goes to court: child protection and custody issues Attachment & Human Development (IF 2.656) Pub Date : 2021-01-11 Tommie Forslund, Pehr Granqvist, Marinus H. van IJzendoorn, Avi Sagi-Schwartz, Danya Glaser, Miriam Steele, Mårten Hammarlund, Carlo Schuengel, Marian J. Bakermans-Kranenburg, Howard Steele, Phillip R. Shaver, Ulrike Lux, John Simmonds, Deborah Jacobvitz, Ashley M. Groh, Kristin Bernard, Chantal Cyr, Nancy L. Hazen, Sarah Foster, Elia Psouni, Philip A. Cowan, Carolyn Pape Cowan, Anne Rifkin-Graboi
ABSTRACT Attachment theory and research are drawn upon in many applied settings, including family courts, but misunderstandings are widespread and sometimes result in misapplications. The aim of this consensus statement is, therefore, to enhance understanding, counter misinformation, and steer family-court utilisation of attachment theory in a supportive, evidence-based direction, especially with regard
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Attachment and task persistence: attachment orientations, perception of teacher’s responsiveness, and adolescents’ persistence in academic tasks Attachment & Human Development (IF 2.656) Pub Date : 2020-12-28 Anat Ben-Gal Dahan, Mario Mikulincer
ABSTRACT The goal of the two studies reported here was to examine the contribution of adolescents’ attachment orientations (anxiety, avoidance) and their perception of teacher’s responsiveness to persistence in academic tasks. In Study 1 (N = 160), we assessed self-reports of persistence in schoolwork. In Study 2 (N = 240), we manipulated the symbolic presence of participants’ teacher (teacher priming)
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Probing the association between maternal anxious attachment style and mother-child brain-to-brain coupling during passive co-viewing of visual stimuli Attachment & Human Development (IF 2.656) Pub Date : 2020-12-28 Atiqah Azhari, Giulio Gabrieli, Andrea Bizzego, Marc H. Bornstein, Gianluca Esposito
ABSTRACT Brain-to-brain coupling during co-viewing of video stimuli reflects similar intersubjective mentalisation processes. During an everyday joint activity of watching video stimuli (television shows) with her child, an anxiously attached mother’s preoccupation with her child is likely to distract her from understanding the mental state of characters in the show. To test the hypothesis that reduced
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Associations of maternal sensitivity and embodied mentalizing with infant-mother attachment security at one year in depressed and non-depressed dyads Attachment & Human Development (IF 2.656) Pub Date : 2020-12-21 Mette Skovgaard Væver, Katharina Cordes, Anne Christine Stuart, Anne Tharner, Dana Shai, Rose Spencer, Johanne Smith-Nielsen
ABSTRACT Parental Embodied Mentalizing (PEM) captures the parent’s capacity to extrapolate the child’s mental states from movement and respond on a nonverbal level. Little is known about PEM’s relation to other established measures of parent-child interactive behavior, such as maternal sensitivity and attachment. This is investigated in a sample of four months old infants and mothers with (n = 27)
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Verbal - prosodic association when narrating early caregiving experiences during the adult attachment interview: differences between secure and dismissing individuals Attachment & Human Development (IF 2.656) Pub Date : 2020-12-21 Maria Spinelli, Tiziana Aureli, Gabrielle Coppola, Silvia Ponzetti, Francesca Lionetti, Valentina Scialpi, Mirco Fasolo
ABSTRACT Previous studies reported an inconsistency between verbal extracts and emotional physiological activation in dismissing individuals when narrating their early caregiving experience at the Adult Attachment Interview (AAI). This study aimed to explore this discrepancy by analyzing the degree of concordance between verbal content and prosodic characteristics, index of physiological activation
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Foster children’s attachment representations: the role of type of maltreatment and the relationship with birth family Attachment & Human Development (IF 2.656) Pub Date : 2020-11-05 Pablo Carrera, Maite Román, Jesús M. Jiménez-Morago
ABSTRACT Children in foster care are at risk of developing insecure and disorganized attachment, which is problematic for establishing new relationships in foster families. However, most previous studies have focused on attachment behaviors in young children rather than on attachment representations. We compared foster children’s attachment representations with those of a community group, analyzing
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The effectiveness of parenting programs in regard to improving parental reflective functioning: a meta-analysis Attachment & Human Development (IF 2.656) Pub Date : 2020-11-04 Camilla K.M. Lo, Sui Yan Wong
ABSTRACT Although parenting interventions aiming to improve parental RF have been developed, there have been conflicting results in regard to intervention effectiveness. This meta-analytic review seeks to synthesize the available evidence that group-based parenting interventions improve parental RF, in order to provide conclusive evidence regarding their effectiveness. A systematic search was performed
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Universal and culturally specific aspects of sensitive responsiveness to young children Attachment & Human Development (IF 2.656) Pub Date : 2020-12-11 Klaus E. Grossmann, Karin Grossmann
ABSTRACT Human newborn infants are evolutionarily predisposed to communicate. Caretakers may interpret their signals, more or less correctly, as meaningful and intentional. Reliable responsiveness is the essence of the attachment system; appropriate and prompt responses to instant’s’ signals support secure quality of attachment. Other signals, if sensitively responded to, support curiosity for the
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Increasing maternal sensitivity to infant distress through attachment-based intervention: a randomized controlled trial Attachment & Human Development (IF 2.656) Pub Date : 2020-10-27 Allison D. Hepworth, Lisa J. Berlin, Katrieana Salas, Morgan Pardue-Kim, Tiffany L. Martoccio, Brenda Jones Harden
ABSTRACT Maternal sensitivity to infant distress is a key predictor of infant attachment security and social-emotional development. Preventive interventions that support mothers’ sensitive responses to infant distress are crucial, as are rigorous evaluations that test for whom such interventions are effective. The current randomized controlled trial tested main and moderated effects of an attachment-based
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Does secure base script knowledge mediate associations between observed parental caregiving during childhood and adult romantic relationship quality and health? Attachment & Human Development (IF 2.656) Pub Date : 2020-10-27 Or Dagan, Renate S. M. Buisman, Marissa D. Nivison, Theodore E. A. Waters, Brian E. Vaughn, Kelly K. Bost, Maria E. Bleil, Deborah Lowe Vandell, Cathryn Booth-LaForce, Glenn I. Roisman
ABSTRACT Increasingly, attachment representations are being assessed via secure base script knowledge – the degree to which individuals show awareness of the temporal-causal schema that summarizes the basic features of seeking and receiving effective support from caregivers during times of need. Limited research has assessed the links between secure base script knowledge and aspects of adult functioning
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Observing sensitivity in slums in Yemen: the veiled challenge Attachment & Human Development (IF 2.656) Pub Date : 2020-10-19 Khadija Alsarhi, Rahma, Mariëlle Prevoo, Lenneke Alink, Judi Mesman
ABSTRACT This study represents the first video observation of parenting practices conducted in Yemen, where women are generally fully veiled, showing only their eyes, in the presence of strangers. A total of 62 mothers and children (aged 2–6 years) were filmed in their homes for 15 minutes during free interaction. The mothers’ veils did not hamper the coding of sensitivity. Consistent with the socioeconomically
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Maternal sensitivity in rural Andean and Amazonian Peru Attachment & Human Development (IF 2.656) Pub Date : 2020-10-14 Katherine Fourment, Magaly Nóblega, Gabriela Conde, Juan Nuñez del Prado, Judi Mesman
ABSTRACT In the current study, we observed 12 mothers with a 4–21-month-old infant for around 3 hours during their daily activities such as feeding, bathing, and soothing in the multiple-caregiver cultural contexts of rural Peru. Overall, sensitivity levels were high, with an average of 7.33 (out of 9), and seven of the twelve mothers scoring in the high range (scores 7–9), and the remaining five in
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Convergent validity and stability of secure base script knowledge from young adulthood to midlife Attachment & Human Development (IF 2.656) Pub Date : 2020-10-12 Theodore E. A. Waters, Christopher R. Facompré, Or Dagan, Jodi Martin, William F. Johnson, Ethan S. Young, Jessica Shankman, Yoojin Lee, Jeffry A. Simpson, Glenn I. Roisman
ABSTRACT Attachment theory posits that early experiences with caregivers are made portable across development in the form of mental representations of attachment experiences. These representations, the secure base script included, are thought to be stable across time. Here, we present data from two studies. Study 1 (N = 141) examined the degree of empirical convergence between the two major measures
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Representations of attachment security, attachment avoidance, and gender in Ugandan children Attachment & Human Development (IF 2.656) Pub Date : 2020-10-09 Valeda Dent, Geoff Goodman
ABSTRACT Researchers returned to the home of Mary Ainsworth’s original attachment study to explore the contributions of Ugandan children’s representations of attachment interactions with their caregivers to their perceptions about gender. Researchers administered the Attachment Story-Completion Task (ASCT) and applied three attachment narrative coding systems and a gender stereotypes typology to the
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Maternal sensitivity in interactions with their 2-month-old infants in Rio de Janeiro - Brazil Attachment & Human Development (IF 2.656) Pub Date : 2020-10-09 Ana Carla Lima Ribeiro, Maria Lucia Seidl-de-Moura, Deise Maria Leal Fernandes Mendes, Judi Mesman
ABSTRACT This paper reports on a study of maternal sensitivity in 22 primiparous women and their infants from Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Sociodemographic risk was assessed through an interview, and videotaped naturalistic home observations were used to assess maternal sensitivity, and its relation with warmth, verbal and physical engagement, and camera awareness. A K-means cluster analysis was performed
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Video observations of sensitivity in context: integrating insights from seven cultural communities Attachment & Human Development (IF 2.656) Pub Date : 2020-10-07 Judi Mesman
ABSTRACT This integrative discussion of the special issue on video observations of sensitive caregiving in different cultural communities provides a reflection on the seven empirical studies that comprise this special issue. The two main aims of this special issue are highlighted in terms of their overall conclusions: (1) video observations can be useful and reliable tools to assess sensitivity in
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Video observations of sensitive caregiving “off the beaten track”: introduction to the special issue Attachment & Human Development (IF 2.656) Pub Date : 2020-10-06 Judi Mesman
ABSTRACT This introduction to the special issue on video observations of sensitive caregiving in different cultural communities provides a general theoretical and methodological framework for the seven empirical studies that are at the heart of this special issue. It highlights the cross-cultural potential of the sensitivity construct, the importance of research on sensitivity “off the beaten track
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Observing maternal sensitivity in a South African township: an exploratory study into behavioral features using different measures Attachment & Human Development (IF 2.656) Pub Date : 2020-10-05 Nicola Dawson, Katherine Bain, Judi Mesman
ABSTRACT There is evidence that sensitive responsiveness is manifested differently in varying cultural contexts. This exploratory study examines a sample of 50 South African mothers in the context of a socioeconomically deprived Township, and investigates differences between the Ainsworth sensitivity scale (that does not specify particular manifestations of sensitivity) and the Maternal Behavior Q-sort
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Video observations of maternal sensitivity in urban and Rural Iran: an exploratory study Attachment & Human Development (IF 2.656) Pub Date : 2020-10-05 Faramarz Asanjarani, Faezeh Davoud Abadi, Milad Ghomi, Mi-Lan Woudstra, Judi Mesman
ABSTRACT Aiming to contribute to the cross-cultural understanding of the nature and meaning of the sensitivity construct, this exploratory study observed 26 mothers and their 18–60-month-old children in rural (15) and urban Iran (11) for 30 minutes of free interaction in the home context. This first study to use video observations of parenting in Iran showed that mothers were generally comfortable
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Sensitive parenting in urban slums in Makassar, Indonesia: the roles of experienced child maltreatment and sociodemographic risk Attachment & Human Development (IF 2.656) Pub Date : 2020-10-05 Rahma, Khadija Alsarhi, Mariëlle J.L. Prevoo, Lenneke R.A. Alink, Judi Mesman
ABSTRACT In the context of urban slums in Makassar in Indonesia, this study aimed to test whether maternal sensitivity was associated with maternal history of childhood maltreatment, and whether this association was mediated by current partner conflict and current cumulative sociodemographic risk. A total of 98 mothers and their 2–4 year-old children were videotaped in a naturalistic observation. Maternal
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Sensitive infant caregiving among the rural Gusii in Kenya Attachment & Human Development (IF 2.656) Pub Date : 2020-10-02 Judi Mesman, Nobert Basweti, Joseph Misati
ABSTRACT The Gusii in rural Kenya represent a particularly interesting community for the study of sensitivity, as they have previously been described as not showing sensitive care. This study focuses on the observation of sensitivity in seven families with a 7-to 23-month-old infant, with extensive naturalistic video observations (ca. 2–4 hours per infant) described qualitatively and quantitatively
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Eyes to see and ears to hear: sensitivity in research on attachment and culture Attachment & Human Development (IF 2.656) Pub Date : 2020-09-30 Ross A. Thompson
ABSTRACT How and why should attachment researchers engage in research on attachment and culture? How should they strive to develop a theoretical perspective that is both contextually sensitive and also reflecting species-typical processes of evolutionary adaptation? These comments on the remarkable empirical papers of this special issue consider what is learned from these studies, what more is needed
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With(out) a little help from my friends: insecure attachment in adolescence, support-seeking, and adult negativity and hostility Attachment & Human Development (IF 2.656) Pub Date : 2020-09-29 Emily L. Loeb, Jessica A. Stern, Meghan A. Costello, Joseph P. Allen
ABSTRACT Attachment theory suggests that insecurely attached individuals will have more difficulty seeking and receiving support from others. Such struggles in adolescence may reinforce negative expectations of others and contribute to relationship difficulties into adulthood. Using a diverse community sample of 184 adolescents followed from age 13 to 27, along with friends and romantic partners, this
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Postintervention and follow-up changes in caregiving behavior and representations after individually or group delivered hybrid Circle of Security-intensive intervention with New Zealand caregiver-child dyads. Attachment & Human Development (IF 2.656) Pub Date : 2020-08-17 Anna Huber,Anne-Marie Hicks,Michelle Ball,Catherine McMahon
ABSTRACT The Circle of Security Intensive intervention (COS-I) aims to improve child attachment security and reduce disorganisation by improving caregiver capacities, including caregiving behavior and representations. Research on COS-I effectiveness with these goals is limited and none examines if positive changes are sustained. A recently revised hybrid COS-I protocol (COS-I-RH) incorporates Circle
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Early childhood attachment stability and change: a meta-analysis. Attachment & Human Development (IF 2.656) Pub Date : 2020-08-10 Jessica E Opie,Jennifer E McIntosh,Timothy B Esler,Robbie Duschinsky,Carol George,Allan Schore,Emily J Kothe,Evelyn S Tan,Christopher J Greenwood,Craig A Olsson
ABSTRACT Examining degrees of stability in attachment throughout early childhood is important for understanding developmental pathways and for informing intervention. Updating and building upon all prior meta-analyses, this study aimed to determine levels of stability in all forms of attachment classifications across early childhood. Attachment stability was assessed between three developmental epochs
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Improving parent-child interactions in maltreating families with the Attachment Video-feedback Intervention: Parental childhood trauma as a moderator of treatment effects. Attachment & Human Development (IF 2.656) Pub Date : 2020-08-04 Sabine van der Asdonk,Chantal Cyr,Lenneke Alink
ABSTRACT Research is demonstrating the effectiveness of attachment-based interventions for maltreating families. However, parents’ own traumatic childhood experiences may interfere with treatment effects. The current study investigated in a sample of maltreating families whether effects of the Attachment Video-feedback Intervention (AVI) on parent–child interactive quality were moderated by parental
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Maternal trauma and emotional availability in early mother-infant interaction: findings from the Mercy Pregnancy and Emotional Well-being Study (MPEWS) cohort. Attachment & Human Development (IF 2.656) Pub Date : 2020-07-20 Kelli K MacMillan,Andrew J Lewis,Stuart J Watson,Brendan Jansen,Megan Galbally
ABSTRACT Understanding how a mother’s traumatic experiences influence her interactions with her infant may have importance for understanding infant development and mental health. Data for this study were drawn from an Australian pregnancy cohort, the Mercy Pregnancy and Emotional Wellbeing Study. Maternal trauma from Childhood, Childbirth Experiences, and Stressful Life Events were examined. At six-months
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Enhancing food habits via sensitivity in rural low-SES mothers of children aged 1-3 living in Colombia: a randomized controlled trial using video-feedback intervention. Attachment & Human Development (IF 2.656) Pub Date : 2020-06-29 Lavinia Barone,Nicola Carone,Juan-Gabriel Salazar-Jimenez,Jenny Amanda Ortíz Muñoz
ABSTRACT In a randomized controlled trial with 25 Colombian rural low-SES mothers and their children (aged 1–3 years), the effectiveness of the Video-feedback Intervention to promote Positive Parenting and Sensitive Discipline (VIPP-SD) in enhancing maternal sensitivity and food habits was tested pre-intervention, post-intervention, and at a 6-month follow-up. The study further verified whether maternal
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Such stuff as dreams are made on: John Bowlby and the interpretation of dreams. Attachment & Human Development (IF 2.656) Pub Date : 2020-05-13 Frank C P van der Horst,René van der Veer,Robbie Duschinsky
ABSTRACT In this paper, newly uncovered archival material from the Bowlby archives is presented on Bowlby’s own dreams and dream interpretation. Although he was critical of orthodox psychoanalysis, Bowlby appears to have been seriously involved in Freudian dream interpretation in the 1930s and 1940s. Here, we present in annotated form his own interpretations of several of his dreams from that time
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Emerging patterns of infant regulatory behavior in the Still-Face paradigm at 3 and 9 months predict mother-infant attachment at 12 months. Attachment & Human Development (IF 2.656) Pub Date : 2020-05-04 Miguel Barbosa,Marjorie Beeghly,João Moreira,Ed Tronick,Marina Fuertes
ABSTRACT Prior research described three stable patterns of organized behavior employed by infants to manage stressful interactive situations with their mothers in the Face-to-Face Still-Face paradigm (FFSF) at 3 and 9 months postpartum. The current longitudinal study expands this research by examining the extent to which these patterns predict infants’ later attachment quality. For that purpose, 108
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Don't forget student-teacher dependency! A Meta-analysis on associations with students' school adjustment and the moderating role of student and teacher characteristics. Attachment & Human Development (IF 2.656) Pub Date : 2020-04-27 Debora L Roorda,Marjolein Zee,Helma M Y Koomen
ABSTRACT A meta-analytic approach was used to examine associations between student-teacher dependency and students’ school adjustment (engagement, achievement, externalizing behavior, internalizing behavior, and prosocial behavior). Furthermore, we investigated whether associations between dependency and school adjustment were moderated by student and teacher characteristics. In total, the meta-analysis
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Teacher-child dependency in preschool: links with teacher-child closeness, conflict and children's effortful control. Attachment & Human Development (IF 2.656) Pub Date : 2020-04-22 Tiago Ferreira,Joana Cadima,Marisa Matias,Teresa Leal,Paula Mena Matos
ABSTRACT Dependency is a scarcely investigated dimension of teacher-child (T-C) relationships that can reflect a lack of security and obstruct children’s autonomous exploration in the school context. We examined the within- and cross-time associations between T-C dependency, closeness, and conflict, and children’s effortful control, an ability related to children’s self-regulation. Data were collected
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Dependency in teacher-child relationships: deepening our understanding of the construct. Attachment & Human Development (IF 2.656) Pub Date : 2020-04-22 Karine Verschueren,Helma Koomen
ABSTRACT Within an attachment perspective on teacher-child relationships three affective relationship dimensions have been identified: closeness, conflict, and dependency. Whereas a lot of research is available on relational closeness and conflict, far less is known about the construct of dependency. In this paper, we aim to further the conceptualization of child-teacher dependency in several ways
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Understanding the origins of child-teacher dependency: mother-child attachment security and temperamental inhibition as antecedents. Attachment & Human Development (IF 2.656) Pub Date : 2020-04-22 Karine Verschueren,Jantine L Spilt
ABSTRACT This study investigated the joint contribution of child-mother attachment quality and child temperamental inhibition to the development of child-teacher dependency. A sample of 237 kindergartners (Mage = 60.2 months) and their teachers from 36 classrooms participated. Preschool child-mother attachment quality was assessed using the Attachment Q-set. Behavioral inhibition was rated by the preschool
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Teachers' and children's perceptions about their relationships: examining the construct of dependency in the Greek sociocultural context. Attachment & Human Development (IF 2.656) Pub Date : 2020-04-20 A Gregoriadis,V Grammatikopoulos,N Tsigilis,K Verschueren
ABSTRACT This study examines teachers’ and children’s perceptions of dependency, and their linkages with other relationship dimensions, in a cultural context with a more collectivistic orientation. Additionally, it examines the factorial validity and reliability of the Greek version of the Child Appraisal of Relationship with Teacher Scale (CARTS) and teacher-child perceptions' convergence of relationship
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Effect of video-feedback intervention on Turkish mothers' sensitivity and physical intrusiveness: a randomized control trial. Attachment & Human Development (IF 2.656) Pub Date : 2020-04-20 Cansu Alsancak-Akbulut,Basak Sahin-Acar,Nebi Sumer
ABSTRACT We examined the effectiveness of the video-feedback Intervention to Promote Positive Parenting-Sensitive Discipline (VIPP-SD) in enhancing maternal sensitivity and decreasing maternal physical intrusive behaviors among Turkish mothers. Mothers (N = 68; Mage = 29.29, SD = 5.20) with their children (Mage = 20.04 months, SD = 6.62) participated in a randomized controlled trial with pre-, post-
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The mediating role of child-teacher dependency in the association between early mother-child attachment and behavior problems in middle childhood. Attachment & Human Development (IF 2.656) Pub Date : 2020-04-17 Robin Neuhaus,Meghan McCormick,Erin O'Connor
ABSTRACT This study examines child-teacher dependency in preschool as a pathway through which mother-child attachment is associated with children’s behavior problems across middle childhood. Data include direct assessments of attachment security and styles, teacher reports of child-teacher dependency, and maternal reports of behavior problems from the NICHD SECCYD (N = 769 children). Children with
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Principles of development: the case of dependency. Attachment & Human Development (IF 2.656) Pub Date : 2020-04-17 L Alan Sroufe
ABSTRACT In this commentary, I underscore the two developmental principles or laws pointed to by this series of papers on child-teacher dependency; namely, that behavior and development are coherent and that early attachment relationships are the foundation for later development. First, I will review briefly the history of the dependency and attachment concepts and how Bowlby and Ainsworth distinguished
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Child-teacher dependency: The state of the research. Attachment & Human Development (IF 2.656) Pub Date : 2020-04-17 Kathleen Moritz Rudasill
ABSTRACT The purpose of this commentary is to situate the findings from the studies in this special issue within the broader child-teacher relationship literature, with particular focus on the complex nature of child-teacher dependency. First, I briefly describe and review each of the compelling papers in this special issue. Second, I weave the studies to each other by linking their methods and results
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Childhood abuse and neglect experiences, Hostile-Helpless attachment, and reflective functioning in mentally ill filicidal mothers Attachment & Human Development (IF 2.656) Pub Date : 2020-04-07 Lavinia Barone, Nicola Carone
ABSTRACT The present study represents the first empirical investigation of the mechanisms – a Hostile-Helpless (HH) attachment and reflective functioning (RF) – through which childhood abuse and neglect (CA&N) experiences may impact a mother’s likelihood to commit filicide. The sample was comprised of 46 mentally ill mothers. Differences in attachment-derived risk variables between filicidal mothers
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Attachment security in infancy predicts reduced parasympathetic reactivity in middle childhood. Attachment & Human Development (IF 2.656) Pub Date : 2020-03-25 Alexandra R Tabachnick,K Lee Raby,Alison Goldstein,Lindsay Zajac,Mary Dozier
ABSTRACT Children with histories of secure attachments during infancy are expected to develop healthier patterns of physiological activity at rest and in response to a stressor than children with insecure attachments. The present study examined longitudinal associations between infant attachment security and children’s respiratory sinus arrhythmia (RSA) at rest and in response to a frustration task
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Does your child need therapy? Maternal reflective functioning and perceived need for and use of child mental health treatment Attachment & Human Development (IF 2.656) Pub Date : 2020-03-13 Christina Carlone, Stephanie Milan
ABSTRACT Interventions to improve reflective functioning (RF) are being delivered to parents of children with mental health needs, yet whether this population differs in RF is unknown. We examine if mothers with varying levels of child mental health (CMH) treatment need and use differ in RF in a community sample of 212 mothers. Participants completed measures of general RF, parental RF, children’s
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Maternal attachment style, sensitivity, and infant obesity risk in low-income, Latino families. Attachment & Human Development (IF 2.656) Pub Date : 2020-03-04 Allison D Hepworth,Lisa J Berlin,Tiffany L Martoccio,Brenda Jones Harden
ABSTRACT Disparities in childhood obesity highlight the need for research to identify its early predictors in high-risk populations, such as low-income, Latino families. In the current study, the first of its kind in a low-income Latino sample (N = 55; M child age = 12.74 months, SD = 3.96), we investigated whether mothers’ self-reported attachment style predicted their infants’ weight-for-length (WFL;
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Developmental pathways from maternal history of childhood maltreatment and maternal depression to toddler attachment and early childhood behavioral outcomes. Attachment & Human Development (IF 2.656) Pub Date : 2020-03-04 Michelle E Alto,Jennifer M Warmingham,Elizabeth D Handley,Fred Rogosch,Dante Cicchetti,Sheree L Toth
ABSTRACT The current study examined the development of toddler attachment and early childhood behavior among children of mothers with a history of childhood maltreatment and current major depressive disorder. Maternal depression, maternal sensitivity, and toddler attachment were assessed as mediators of the association between maternal history of childhood maltreatment and child internalizing and externalizing
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The Connecting and Reflecting Experience (CARE): theoretical foundation and development of mentalizing-focused parenting groups. Attachment & Human Development (IF 2.656) Pub Date : 2020-02-19 Amanda Zayde,Tracy A Prout,Anna Kilbride,Tatianna Kufferath-Lin
ABSTRACT In underserved communities with limited resources and disproportionately high morbidity and mortality rates, attachment-based, short-term, group interventions that are effective yet simple to disseminate can have a profound public health impact. This paper describes the implementation of a mentalizing-focused group parenting intervention. The Connecting and Reflecting Experience (CARE) serves
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Changing developmental trajectory in high-risk families: the effectiveness of an attachment-informed Therapeutic Nursery Program (TNP) for preschool children with complex emotional and behavioral problems. Attachment & Human Development (IF 2.656) Pub Date : 2020-01-30 Yair Ziv,Kristen L Capps Umphlet,Inbar Sofri,Stephanie Olarte,Jimmy Venza
ABSTRACT The article describes a “Therapeutic Nursery Program“ (TNP) and presents a study that examined its effectiveness. This attachment-informed program serves preschoolers with severe emotional and behavioral problems. Efficacy was assessed based on: 1) children’s success in transitioning from the TNP to typical schools; (2) improvement in children’s outcomes as a function of specific intervention
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Vasopressin and parental expressed emotion in the transition to fatherhood. Attachment & Human Development (IF 2.656) Pub Date : 2020-01-30 Anna M Lotz,Jolien Rijlaarsdam,Jurriaan Witteman,Willemijn Meijer,Kim van Dijk,Marinus H van Ijzendoorn,Marian J Bakermans-Kranenburg
ABSTRACT In the last decades, parenting researchers increasingly focused on the role of fathers in child development. However, it is still largely unknown which factors contribute to fathers’ beliefs about their child, which may be crucial in the transition to fatherhood. In the current randomized within-subject experiment, the effect of nasal administration of vasopressin (AVP) on both Five Minute
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