Associations Between Attachment Narratives and Self-Report Measures of Attachment in Middle Childhood: Extending Evidence for the Validity of the Child Attachment Interview

2015 ◽  
Vol 25 (4) ◽  
pp. 1235-1246 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jessica L. Borelli ◽  
Jennifer Somers ◽  
Jessica L. West ◽  
John K. Coffey ◽  
Andres De Los Reyes ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Middle Childhood ◽  
Self Report ◽  
Child Attachment ◽  
Child Attachment Interview

scholarly journals Instantiating the multiple levels of analysis perspective in a program of study on externalizing behavior

2012 ◽  
Vol 24 (3) ◽  
pp. 1003-1018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Theodore P. Beauchaine ◽  
Lisa M. Gatzke-Kopp
Keyword(s):  
Middle Childhood ◽  
Externalizing Behavior ◽  
Developmental Psychopathology ◽  
Personality Development ◽  
Developmental Model ◽  
Self Report ◽  
Levels Of Analysis ◽  
Quarter Century ◽  
Trait Impulsivity ◽  
Multiple Levels

AbstractDuring the last quarter century, developmental psychopathology has become increasingly inclusive and now spans disciplines ranging from psychiatric genetics to primary prevention. As a result, developmental psychopathologists have extended traditional diathesis–stress and transactional models to include causal processes at and across all relevant levels of analysis. Such research is embodied in what is known as the multiple levels of analysis perspective. We describe how multiple levels of analysis research has informed our current thinking about antisocial and borderline personality development among trait impulsive and therefore vulnerable individuals. Our approach extends the multiple levels of analysis perspective beyond simple Biology × Environment interactions by evaluating impulsivity across physiological systems (genetic, autonomic, hormonal, neural), psychological constructs (social, affective, motivational), developmental epochs (preschool, middle childhood, adolescence, adulthood), sexes (male, female), and methods of inquiry (self-report, informant report, treatment outcome, cardiovascular, electrophysiological, neuroimaging). By conducting our research using any and all available methods across these levels of analysis, we have arrived at a developmental model of trait impulsivity that we believe confers a greater understanding of this highly heritable trait and captures at least some heterogeneity in key behavioral outcomes, including delinquency and suicide.

Review

2016 ◽  
Vol 41 (1) ◽  
pp. 74-93 ◽  
Author(s):  
Melanie J. Zimmer-Gembeck ◽  
Haley J. Webb ◽  
Christopher A. Pepping ◽  
Kellie Swan ◽  
Ourania Merlo ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Emotion Regulation ◽  
Children And Adolescents ◽  
Insecure Attachment ◽  
Self Report ◽  
Disorganized Attachment ◽  
Coping With Stress ◽  
Attachment Relationship ◽  
Avoidant Attachment ◽  
Child Attachment ◽  
And Coping

Attachment theorists have described the parent–child attachment relationship as a foundation for the emergence and development of children’s capacity for emotion regulation and coping with stress. The purpose of this review was to summarize the existing research addressing this issue. We identified 23 studies that employed validated assessments of attachment, which were not based on self-report questionnaires, and separated the summary into findings for toddlers/preschool, children, and adolescents. Although most associations were weak and only a minority of the multiple possible associations tested was supported in each study, all studies (but one) reported at least one significant association between attachment and emotion regulation or coping. The evidence pointed to the regulatory and coping problems of toddlers showing signs of ambivalent attachment or the benefits of secure (relative to insecure) attachment for toddlers, children, and adolescents. Toddlers who showed signs of avoidant attachment relied more on self-related regulation (or less social-oriented regulation and coping), but it was not clear whether these responses were maladaptive. There was little information available regarding associations of ambivalent attachment with school-age children’s or adolescents’ emotion regulation. There were also few studies that assessed disorganized attachment.

scholarly journals Three pathways from anger dysregulation to lower social status among chinese boys

2019 ◽  
Vol 13 (2) ◽  
pp. 187-204
Author(s):  
Hui Zhang ◽  
Charles Matthew Stapleton ◽  
Yeh Hsueh ◽  
Robert Cohen
Keyword(s):  
Social Status ◽  
Middle Childhood ◽  
Behavioral Problems ◽  
Social Withdrawal ◽  
Urban China ◽  
Self Report ◽  
Overt Aggression ◽  
Social And Emotional ◽  
Social Challenge ◽  
Peer Nominations

During middle childhood, Chinese boys are particularly at risk to develop both externalizing (e.g., overt aggression) and internalizing behavioral problems (e.g., social withdrawal). A possible contributor to these problems is that boys cannot regulate their anger very well. Inability to manage anger may cause a particular social challenge for Chinese boys. Open expression of anger may be prohibited by prevailing Chinese cultural norms, because it emphasizes individuality over harmony. But anger is a socially disengaging emotion which works against social harmony. This situation requires Chinese boys to manage and express anger appropriately in social interactions. Based on the hierarchical model of social relationships and the three trends of human interactions, this study examined three pathways—aggression, social withdrawal, and sociability-leadership—that lead from Chinese boys’ anger dysregulation to their lower social status among peers at school. Participants of this study were 267 boys in Grades 3-6 from an elementary school in urban China. A self-report questionnaire of anger dysregulation was used to evaluate how often Chinese boys express their anger in dysregulated ways (e.g., attacking things or people). Peer nominations were used to measure children’s overt aggression (moving against peers), social withdrawal (moving away from peers), and sociability-leadership (moving toward peers). Social status was assessed by a sociometric measure which evaluates the degree to which children were liked by their classmates. Results showed that boys’ anger dysregulation was negatively associated with their social status. Moreover, aggression, social withdrawal, and social skills fully mediated this association. This study enriches our understanding of the mechanisms linking anger dysregulation to lower social status and provides practical implications to help Chinese boys improve social and emotional functioning in middle childhood.

Emotion regulation as a mediator of associations between mother–child attachment and peer relationships in middle childhood.

2000 ◽  
Vol 14 (1) ◽  
pp. 111-124 ◽  
Author(s):  
Josefina M. Contreras ◽  
Kathryn A. Kerns ◽  
Barbara L. Weimer ◽  
Amy L. Gentzler ◽  
Patricia L. Tomich
Keyword(s):  
Emotion Regulation ◽  
Peer Relationships ◽  
Middle Childhood ◽  
Child Attachment

Early mother–child attachment and behavior problems in middle childhood: the role of the subsequent caregiving environment

2014 ◽  
Vol 16 (6) ◽  
pp. 590-612 ◽  
Author(s):  
Erin E. O’Connor ◽  
Marc A. Scott ◽  
Meghan P. McCormick ◽  
Sharon L. Weinberg
Keyword(s):  
Behavior Problems ◽  
Middle Childhood ◽  
Child Attachment ◽  
And Behavior

scholarly journals Representaciones de apego de niños y niñas con obesidad y la respuesta sensible de sus madres

2012 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
pp. 57-67 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andrea Tognarelli Guzmán
Keyword(s):  
Child Attachment ◽  
Child Attachment Interview

En el presente estudio se establecieron relaciones entre la respuesta materna sensible, el apego y la obesidad infantil. El diseño fue de tipo descriptivo-exploratorio, se utilizó entrevista semiestructurada, el Child Attachment Interview y observación no participante. Los resultados señalan que los niños(as) con obesidad presentan un apego inseguro y que la madre responde con un desacoplamiento frente a las necesidades del hijo; la emisión de respuestas de negación del problema, descuido, invalidación de la experiencia subjetiva y falta de sensibilidad para detectar el hambre y la saciedad del hijo, se relacionan con la obesidad. Se concluye que la intervención en obesidad debe incluir la relación afectiva madre-hijo y se proyecta la posibilidad de prevención del trastorno.

scholarly journals Reflective Function and Borderline Traits in Adolescents

2020 ◽  
Vol 34 (Supplement B) ◽  
pp. 1-16
Author(s):  
Carla Sharp ◽  
Francesca Penner ◽  
Karin Ensink
Keyword(s):  
Empirical Studies ◽  
Reflective Functioning ◽  
Self Report ◽  
Reflective Function ◽  
Direct Relation ◽  
Negative Relation ◽  
Child Attachment ◽  
Internalizing Psychopathology ◽  
Internalizing And Externalizing ◽  
Report Measure

Despite the developmental roots of the relation between attachment-based reflective function (RF) and borderline pathology, there is a lack of empirical studies examining this link in youth. We examined this link taking into account potential relations between RF and internalizing and externalizing pathology. A total of 421 clinical adolescents between the ages of 12 and 17 completed the Child Attachment Interview (CAI; Shmueli-Goetz, Target, Fonagy, & Datta, 2008), which was coded using the Child and Adolescent Reflective Functioning Scale (CARFS; Ensink, Target, & Oandasan, 2013), alongside a self-report measure of borderline pathology and parent-reported measures of internalizing and externalizing pathology. Exploratory analyses revealed no direct relation between RF and borderline features or internalizing psychopathology but a negative relation with externalizing pathology. Moderation analyses showed that externalizing pathology moderated the relation between RF and borderline pathology. Implications for understanding the various ways in which impaired RF may present in adolescents with BPD are discussed.

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