The Circle of Security Intervention: Building Early Attachment Security

2018 ◽  
pp. 237-258 ◽  
Author(s):  
Glade L. Topham
Keyword(s):  
Attachment Security ◽  
Early Attachment ◽  
Circle Of Security

scholarly journals Infant–mother attachment security, contextual risk, and early development: A moderational analysis

2002 ◽  
Vol 14 (2) ◽  
pp. 293-310 ◽  
Author(s):  
JAY BELSKY ◽  
R. M. PASCO FEARON
Keyword(s):  
School Readiness ◽  
Attachment Security ◽  
Cumulative Risk ◽  
Subsequent Development ◽  
Socioemotional Development ◽  
Risk And Resilience ◽  
Contextual Risk ◽  
Early Attachment ◽  
Early Child Care ◽  
Mother Attachment

In light of evidence that the effects of attachment security on subsequent development may be contingent on the social context in which the child continues to develop, we examined the effect of attachment security at age 15 months, cumulative contextual risk from 1 to 36 months, and the interaction of attachment and cumulative risk to predict socioemotional and cognitive linguistic functioning at age 3 years, using data from the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development Study of Early Child Care. Results indicated that early attachment predicts both socioemotional development and language skills, but not cognitive functioning as indexed by a measure of school readiness, and that the effect of attachment on socioemotional development and expressive language varied as a function of social-contextual risk. Insecure–avoidant infants proved most vulnerable to contextual risk, not children classified as secure or insecure more generally, although in one instance security did prove protective with respect to the adverse effects of cumulative contextual risk. Findings are discussed in terms of risk and resilience and in light of the probabilistic nature of the relation between early attachment and later development.

scholarly journals Attachment and Effortful Control in Toddlerhood Predict Academic Achievement Over a Decade Later

2017 ◽  
Vol 28 (12) ◽  
pp. 1786-1795 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lilian Dindo ◽  
Rebecca L. Brock ◽  
Nazan Aksan ◽  
Wakiza Gamez ◽  
Grazyna Kochanska ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Academic Achievement ◽  
Academic Success ◽  
Early Adolescence ◽  
Effortful Control ◽  
Attachment Security ◽  
School Achievement ◽  
Current Understanding ◽  
Early Attachment ◽  
Child Attachment

A child’s attachment to his or her caregiver is central to the child’s development. However, current understanding of subtle, indirect, and complex long-term influences of attachment on various areas of functioning remains incomplete. Research has shown that (a) parent-child attachment influences the development of effortful control and that (b) effortful control influences academic success. The entire developmental cascade among these three constructs over many years, however, has rarely been examined. This article reports a multimethod, decade-long study that examined the influence of mother-child attachment and effortful control in toddlerhood on school achievement in early adolescence. Both attachment security and effortful control uniquely predicted academic achievement a decade later. Effortful control mediated the association between early attachment and school achievement during adolescence. This work suggests that attachment security triggers an adaptive cascade by promoting effortful control, a vital set of skills necessary for future academic success.

scholarly journals Effects of family risk on early attachment security: Gender-specific susceptibility and mediation by parenting behavior

2022 ◽  
pp. 251610322110654
Author(s):  
Jennifer Gerlach ◽  
Judith M. Fößel ◽  
Marc Vierhaus ◽  
Alexandra Sann ◽  
Andreas Eickhorst ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Risk Factors ◽  
Developmental Psychopathology ◽  
Attachment Security ◽  
Economic Status ◽  
Principal Component ◽  
Parenting Behavior ◽  
Family Risk Factors ◽  
Family Risk ◽  
Early Attachment ◽  
Risk Environments

Growing up in high-risk environments is detrimental to children’s development of attachment security. Parenting behavior is hypothesized to be the mechanism through which risks exert their influence. However, risk influences can vary between individuals by gender. Aim of this study was to explore specific pathways of family risk on early attachment security and additionally examine the transmission via parenting behavior. The sample consisted of 197 children and their primary caregivers. Children’s age ranged between 10 and 21 months ( M = 15.25, SD = 3.59). Data assessment included 21 distal and proximal family risk factors, children’s attachment security, and parental responsivity and supportive presence. Whereas distal risk factors had an adverse effect only on girls’ attachment security, proximal risks negatively affected only boys’ attachment security. Additionally, patterns of risk factors occurring in our sample were analyzed using an exploratory principal component analysis. Regardless of the child’s gender, a low socio- economic status was negatively related to attachment security of all children. Migration and crowding and a high emotional load of the primary caregiver both negatively predicted girls’ but not boys’ attachment security. However, the attachment security of boys was affected by a negative family climate. Most of the adverse risk effects on attachment security were mediated by parental responsivity and supportive presence so that the transmission of risk occurs through parenting behavior. Results revealed a different susceptibility of family risks for girls and boys. The consideration of a gender-sensitive approach in developmental psychopathology and interventions of developmental child welfare services is recommended.

Is early attachment security carried forward into relationships with preschool peers?

2004 ◽  
Vol 22 (2) ◽  
pp. 245-253 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jeffrey J. Wood ◽  
Natasha A. Emmerson ◽  
Philip A. Cowan
Keyword(s):  
Attachment Security ◽  
Early Attachment

scholarly journals Meaning Through Attachment: An Integrative Framework

2018 ◽  
Vol 122 (6) ◽  
pp. 2242-2265
Author(s):  
Laura Dewitte ◽  
Pehr Granqvist ◽  
Jessie Dezutter
Keyword(s):  
Attachment Security ◽  
Secure Attachment ◽  
Early Attachment ◽  
Integrative Framework ◽  
Tolerance Of Ambiguity ◽  
The World ◽  
Vital Factor ◽  
Outer Environment

We propose an integrative framework, advancing attachment as a vital factor in the development and maintenance of meaning throughout life. First, early attachment experiences provide a foundation for recognizing patterns and acquiring a sense of order and coherence. Furthermore, interactions with sensitive attachment figures stimulate mentalization capacities and exploration of the inner and outer environment, enabling the formation of complex representations of self, others, and the world, ultimately also molding how individuals appraise meaning in their lives. Second, attachment security can serve as an enduring and powerful resource for handling threats to meaning. When confronted with disruptions to meaning, secure attachment provides a coherent set of representations to fall back on and maintain or regain a firm sense of order and meaning under challenging circumstances. Moreover, by promoting cognitive openness and tolerance of ambiguity, secure attachment facilitates flexible and realistic adjustment of meaning representations when encountering discrepant information.

scholarly journals Five-year-olds’ facial mimicry following social ostracism is modulated by attachment security

PLoS ONE ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 15 (12) ◽  
pp. e0240680
Author(s):  
Stefania V. Vacaru ◽  
Johanna E. van Schaik ◽  
Erik de Water ◽  
Sabine Hunnius
Keyword(s):  
Individual Differences ◽  
Early Development ◽  
Facial Expressions ◽  
Attachment Security ◽  
Parent Report ◽  
Facial Mimicry ◽  
Early Attachment ◽  
Social Ostracism ◽  
Affiliation Motivation ◽  
Virtual Game

Social ostracism triggers an increase in affiliative behaviours. One such behaviour is the rapid copying of others’ facial expressions, called facial mimicry. Insofar, it remains unknown how individual differences in intrinsic affiliation motivation regulate responses to social ostracism during early development. We examined children’s facial mimicry following ostracism as modulated by individual differences in the affiliation motivation, expressed in their attachment tendencies. Resistant and avoidant tendencies are characterized by high and low affiliation motivation, and were hypothesized to lead to facial mimicry enhancement or suppression towards an ostracizing partner, respectively. Following an ostracism manipulation in which children played a virtual game (Cyberball) with an includer and an excluder peer, mimicry of the two peers’ happy and sad facial expressions was recorded with electromyography (EMG). Attachment was assessed via parent-report questionnaire. We found that 5-year-olds smiled to sad facial expressions of the excluder peer, while they showed no facial reactions for the includer peer. Neither resistant nor avoidant tendencies predicted facial mimicry to the excluder peer. Yet, securely attached children smiled towards the excluder peer, when sad facial expressions were displayed. In conclusion, these findings suggest a modulation of facial reactions following ostracism by early attachment.

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