Early Moral Development and Attachment Theory

2019 ◽  
pp. 20-40
Author(s):  
Ross A. Thompson
Keyword(s):  
Moral Development ◽  
Attachment Theory ◽  
Social Problem Solving ◽  
Emotion Understanding ◽  
Development Theory ◽  
Secure Attachment ◽  
Problem Solving Skills ◽  
Parental Sensitivity ◽  
Prosocial Motivation ◽  
Parent Child Relationships

Attachment theory has provided a seminal orientation to understanding the early development of parent-child relationships and their enduring influence. Is attachment theory also a moral development theory? This chapter examines research on the association of secure attachment with morally relevant behaviors and dispositions. This review reveals that secure attachment is associated with greater social problem-solving skills and conflict avoidance with peers, enhanced emotion understanding and empathy, and more advanced conscience development, and there is limited evidence that it is also associated with prosocial behavior. Moreover, parental sensitivity and responsiveness are associated not only with secure attachment, but also with conscience development, empathy, prosocial motivation, and distress upon wrongdoing. In addition, findings suggest that secure attachment is associated with characteristics of parenting that are likely to contribute to an early developing premoral sensibility. Although attachment theory does not provide a comprehensive account of how secure attachment contributes to morally relevant conduct, it offers a perspective on moral development that is important to the field. The chapter concludes with an outline of what an attachment perspective to early moral development might look like.

Attachment Security and Emotional Availability

2017 ◽  
pp. 246-265
Author(s):  
Zeynep Biringen ◽  
Jennifer J. Harman ◽  
Hannah Saunders ◽  
Robert N. Emde
Keyword(s):  
Clinical Practice ◽  
Attachment Theory ◽  
Family Dynamics ◽  
Attachment Security ◽  
Emotional Availability ◽  
Secure Attachment ◽  
Parental Sensitivity ◽  
Divorced Families ◽  
Similarities And Differences

Attachment theory posits that sensitive interactions between caregivers and children are the bedrock of a secure attachment (Ainsworth, Blehar, Waters, & Wall, 1978). The larger concept of “emotional availability” (Biringen, Robinson, & Emde, 1998) refers to the avenue by which secure attachments are formed, including qualities additional to parental sensitivity. That is, according to the emotional availability framework (Biringen et al., 1998), parental structuring, non-intrusiveness, and non-hostility and sensitivity contribute to the climate that nurtures secure attachment. Child qualities also contribute to secure attachment, in the form of child's responsiveness and child's involvement/engagement with the caregiver. This paper will explore the similarities and differences in these two (primarily) observational concepts as well as propose areas that require broadening, given recent research on family dynamics. Moreover, we describe implications for clinical practice involving intact and divorced families.

Effects of Attachment Styles on the Experience of Equity in Heterosexual Couples Relationships

2003 ◽  
Vol 50 (4) ◽  
pp. 298-310 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ina Grau ◽  
Jörg Doll
Keyword(s):  
Attachment Theory ◽  
Attachment Style ◽  
Intimate Relationships ◽  
Attachment Styles ◽  
Experimental Studies ◽  
The Other ◽  
Heterosexual Couples ◽  
Secure Attachment ◽  
Dependent Variables ◽  
Equity Ratio

Abstract. Employing one correlational and two experimental studies, this paper examines the influence of attachment styles (secure, anxious, avoidant) on a person’s experience of equity in intimate relationships. While one experimental study employed a priming technique to stimulate the different attachment styles, the other involved vignettes describing fictitious characters with typical attachment styles. As the specific hypotheses about the single equity components have been developed on the basis of the attachment theory, the equity ratio itself and the four equity components (own outcome, own input, partner’s outcome, partner’s input) are analyzed as dependent variables. While partners with a secure attachment style tend to describe their relationship as equitable (i.e., they give and take extensively), partners who feel anxious about their relationship generally see themselves as being in an inequitable, disadvantaged position (i.e., they receive little from their partner). The hypothesis that avoidant partners would feel advantaged as they were less committed was only supported by the correlational study. Against expectations, the results of both experiments indicate that avoidant partners generally see themselves (or see avoidant vignettes) as being treated equitably, but that there is less emotional exchange than is the case with secure partners. Avoidant partners give and take less than secure ones.

Dimensions of marital conflict and children's social problem-solving skills.

1999 ◽  
Vol 13 (1) ◽  
pp. 33-45 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sherryl H. Goodman ◽  
Bill Barfoot ◽  
Alice A. Frye ◽  
Andrea M. Belli
Keyword(s):  
Problem Solving ◽  
Marital Conflict ◽  
Social Problem ◽  
Social Problem Solving ◽  
Problem Solving Skills

scholarly journals Relationships matter: How clinicians can support positive parenting in the early years

2019 ◽  
Vol 24 (5) ◽  
pp. 340-347 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robin C Williams ◽  
Anne Biscaro ◽  
Jean Clinton
Keyword(s):  
Healthy Adult ◽  
Primary Care Providers ◽  
Positive Parenting ◽  
Early Years ◽  
Care Providers ◽  
Secure Attachment ◽  
Basic Principles ◽  
Attachment Relationship ◽  
Daily Routines ◽  
Parent Child Relationships

Abstract A secure attachment relationship with at least one healthy adult is essential for a child to develop optimal coping abilities. Primary care providers like paediatricians and family physicians can help by supporting parents in practice settings. Every clinician encounter is an opportunity to ask parents about children’s relationships and their behaviour, daily routines, and overall family function. This statement, which focuses on children aged 0 to 6 years, describes basic principles in support of positive parenting and recommends in-office practices to promote secure parent–child relationships, engage families and build trust with parents. Crying, sleep, and difficult behaviours are described as opportunities for clinicians to provide anticipatory, responsive guidance to parents.

Teaching Collegiate Journalists How to Cover Traumatic Events Using Moral Development Theory

2019 ◽  
Vol 75 (2) ◽  
pp. 233-246
Author(s):  
Stephanie Anderson ◽  
Brian Bourke
Keyword(s):  
Moral Development ◽  
Ethical Decision ◽  
Ethical Decision Making ◽  
Traumatic Events ◽  
Psychological Effects ◽  
Development Theory ◽  
Psychological Skills ◽  
Education Students ◽  
Development Education

The authors make the argument that trauma journalism should be taught as part of the postsecondary curriculum in journalism schools. As part of that education, students will learn that coping with the psychological effects of repeated exposure to such events can have long-term impacts on their mental health. As Kohlberg and Rest found, students in college are at a pivotal point in their moral development. Education takes place as adolescents are developing key psychological skills, including moral and ethical decision-making. Collegiate journalists should be gaining these valuable reasoning skills as it relates to covering traumatic events.

scholarly journals An Approach to Developmental Cognition in Organizations

2015 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 1 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mustafa Emre Caglar
Keyword(s):  
Moral Development ◽  
Development Theory ◽  
Environmental Perceptions ◽  
Cognitive Level ◽  
Cognitive Capacities ◽  
Organizational Cognition ◽  
Ontological Approach ◽  
Starting Point ◽  
Industrial Use

<p>As an enthusing concept to re-define the organizational cosmos in a novel form, this study approve the cognition of individuals as a starting point. Despite the abundant study of organizational cognition concept, there remains an uncharted area which depicts; how perceptions of different cognitive capacities might hierarchise the organizational cosmos. Upon this, we used ‘Kohlberg’s Moral Development Theory’ as a metaphor and found 3 hierarchic cognitive level which characterize on different justification modes. Also an additional theoric level identified for possible phenomenons. We show that the consideration styles of organization members evolve while their cognitive capacities and related environmental perceptions broaden and that these shifts are consistently patterned. An objective scale was developed using an ontological approach to confirm the oral interviews. Eventually, we obtained two different scales for industrial use.</p>

Cognitive functioning and social problem-solving skills in schizophrenia

2002 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 81-95 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michi Hatashita-Wong ◽  
Thomas E. Smith ◽  
Steven M. Silverstein ◽  
James W. Hull ◽  
Deborah F. Willson
Keyword(s):  
Problem Solving ◽  
Cognitive Functioning ◽  
Social Problem ◽  
Social Problem Solving ◽  
Problem Solving Skills
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