The Relationship Among Attachment Representation, Emotion-Abstraction Patterns, and Narrative Style: A Computer-Based Text Analysis of the Adult Attachment Interview

2000 ◽  
Vol 10 (4) ◽  
pp. 390-407 ◽  
Author(s):  
A. Buchheim ◽  
E. Mergenthaler
Keyword(s):  
Adult Attachment ◽  
Text Analysis ◽  
Adult Attachment Interview ◽  
Attachment Representation ◽  
Narrative Style ◽  
Computer Based ◽  
The Relationship

scholarly journals Attachment representations and autonomic regulation in maltreating and nonmaltreating mothers

2016 ◽  
Vol 29 (3) ◽  
pp. 1075-1087 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sophie Reijman ◽  
Lenneke R. A. Alink ◽  
Laura H. C. G. Compier-De Block ◽  
Claudia D. Werner ◽  
Athanasios Maras ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Skin Conductance ◽  
Adult Attachment ◽  
Vagal Tone ◽  
Autonomic Regulation ◽  
Adult Attachment Interview ◽  
Potential Utility ◽  
Attachment Representations ◽  
Attachment Representation ◽  
State Of Mind

AbstractThis study assessed attachment representation and attachment-related autonomic regulation in a sample of 38 maltreating and 35 nonmaltreating mothers. Mothers’ state of mind regarding attachment was measured using the Adult Attachment Interview. They further watched an attachment-based comfort paradigm, during which we measured skin conductance and vagal tone. More maltreating mothers (42%) than nonmaltreating mothers (17%) had an unresolved/disoriented attachment classification. Attachment representation was related to physiology during the comfort paradigm: an unresolved state of mind and a nonautonomous classification were associated with a decrease in skin conductance during the comfort paradigm, specifically during the responsive caregiver scenario. However, physiology did not differ between maltreating and nonmaltreating mothers. The decrease in skin conductance of unresolved mothers during the comfort paradigm might be indicative of a deactivating response, which is congruent with the dissociative nature of the unresolved state of mind. The results point to the potential utility of interventions focused on attachment representations for maltreating mothers.

scholarly journals Patient’s and the Therapist’s Attachment Representations, Attachment to Therapists, and Self-Esteem-Change Through Psychotherapy

2021 ◽  
Vol 12 ◽  
Author(s):  
Katja Petrowski ◽  
Hendrik Berth ◽  
Peter Beiling ◽  
Vanessa Renner ◽  
Thomas Probst
Keyword(s):  
Attachment Style ◽  
Significant Influence ◽  
Adult Attachment ◽  
Self Esteem ◽  
Adult Attachment Interview ◽  
Naturalistic Study ◽  
Attachment Representations ◽  
Attachment Relationship ◽  
Specific Attachment ◽  
The Relationship

Objectives: The present naturalistic study aims to investigate the differential effects of the patient’s and the therapist’s attachment representations on the attachment to the therapist as perceived by the patient, and their impact on self-esteem-change through psychotherapy.Methods: Attachment variables of N = 573 patients as well as N = 16 therapists were assessed. Attachment representations were measured for therapists and patients via the Bielefelder Questionnaire for Client Attachment Exploration, the Relationship Specific Attachment to Therapist Scales and the Adult Attachment Interview. The patient’s attachment to therapists was evaluated and patients’ self-esteem was measured via the Frankfurter Selbstkonzeptskalen at the beginning and end of psychotherapy.Results: Although there were significant effects of the patient’s attachment representations on the perceived attachment to the therapist as well as between the perceived attachment to the therapist and the amount of self-esteem-change, the therapist’s attachment style had no significant influence on the perceived attachment to the therapist.Conclusion: Self-esteem-change through psychotherapy is influenced by the actually formed attachment relationship as perceived by the patient. The patient’s attachment representations but not the therapist’s attachment style contributes to the actual patient’s attachment to the therapist.

Adolescents’ nonverbal emotional expressions during negotiation of a disagreement with their mothers: An attachment approach

2001 ◽  
Vol 25 (4) ◽  
pp. 344-353 ◽  
Author(s):  
Fabienne Becker-Stoll ◽  
Andrea Delius ◽  
Stephanie Scheitenberger
Keyword(s):  
Facial Expression ◽  
Attachment Style ◽  
Adult Attachment ◽  
Adult Attachment Interview ◽  
Emotional States ◽  
Attachment Representations ◽  
Attachment Representation ◽  
Nonverbal Behaviour ◽  
Expression Of Emotion ◽  
Interaction Task

The present study investigates the influence of attachment representation on adolescents’ nonverbal behaviour during an observed mother-adolescent interaction task. In a follow-up of the Regensburg longitudinal study, 43 (of the original 51 participating families) 16-year-old adolescents and their mothers were observed in a short revealed differences task. Ekman and Friesen’s (1978) facial expression descriptions were used in the second-by-second analysis of the adolescents’ facial expressions. The analysis assessed emotional states (anger, sadness, surprise, uneasiness, joy, smiling), manipulators or adapters as signs of tension (biting of lips, biting nails), emblems, and eye contact. Concurrently, adolescents were given the Adult Attachment Interview to assess their attachment representations using Kobak’s Adult-Attachment-Interview Q-sort. Results showed a significant relationship between adolescent attachment representation and adolescent nonverbal facial expression during the interaction task. Attachment security was related to open and positive expression of emotion, whereas dismissive attachment style was associated with communication inhibiting behaviour. The results are congruent with attachment theory claiming that coherent emotional appraisals of one’s own attachment history is a prerequisite to open emotional expression and communication of one’s feelings to others.

scholarly journals Attachment Representation and Cortisol Response to the Adult Attachment Interview in Idiopathic Spasmodic Torticollis

2000 ◽  
Vol 69 (3) ◽  
pp. 155-162 ◽  
Author(s):  
C.E. Scheidt ◽  
E. Waller ◽  
H. Malchow ◽  
U. Ehlert ◽  
F. Becker-Stoll ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Adult Attachment ◽  
Spasmodic Torticollis ◽  
Adult Attachment Interview ◽  
Cortisol Response ◽  
Attachment Representation

Mothers with borderline personality and their young children: Adult Attachment Interviews, mother–child interactions, and children's narrative representations

2014 ◽  
Vol 26 (2) ◽  
pp. 539-551 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jenny Macfie ◽  
Scott A. Swan ◽  
Katie L. Fitzpatrick ◽  
Christopher D. Watkins ◽  
Elaine M. Rivas
Keyword(s):  
Adult Attachment ◽  
Self Regulation ◽  
Borderline Personality ◽  
Adult Attachment Interview ◽  
Role Reversal ◽  
Narrative Representations ◽  
Normative Comparisons ◽  
Fear Of Abandonment ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Larger Sample

AbstractBorderline personality disorder (BPD) involves disruptions in attachment, self, and self-regulation, domains conceptually similar to developmental tasks of early childhood. Because offspring of mothers with BPD are at elevated risk of developing BPD themselves (White, Gunderson, Zanarini, & Hudson, 2003), studying them may inform precursors to BPD. We sampled 31 children age 4–7 whose mothers have BPD and 31 normative comparisons. We examined relationships between mothers' Adult Attachment Interview (AAI) representations (George, Kaplan, & Main, 1984), mothers' observed parenting, and children's narrative representations. Replicating previous studies, mothers with BPD were more likely to be classified as preoccupied and unresolved on the AAI. In a larger sample, which included the current one, we also replicated two underlying AAI dimensions found in normative samples (Roisman, Fraley, & Belsky, 2007; Whipple, Bernier, & Mageau, 2011). Controlling for current mood, anxiety, and other personality disorders, mothers with BPD were significantly higher than were comparisons on the preoccupied/unresolved, but not the dismissive, dimension. Children's narrative representations relevant to disruptions in attachment (fear of abandonment and role reversal), self (incongruent child and self/fantasy confusion), and self-regulation (destruction of objects) were significantly correlated with the preoccupied/unresolved, but not the dismissive, dimension. Furthermore, mothers' parenting significantly mediated the relationship between the preoccupied/unresolved dimension and their children's narrative representations of fear of abandonment.

scholarly journals Patients’ Adult Attachment Interview classification and their experience of the therapeutic relationship: are they associated?

2019 ◽  
Vol 22 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Alessandro Talia ◽  
Madeleine Miller-Bottome ◽  
Rachel Wyner ◽  
Peter Lilliengren ◽  
Jordan Bate
Keyword(s):  
Therapeutic Relationship ◽  
Adult Attachment ◽  
Rating Scale ◽  
Adult Attachment Interview ◽  
Attachment Representations ◽  
End Of Treatment ◽  
Brief Relational Therapy ◽  
Pre Treatment ◽  
The Relationship

In the last decade of his career, Jeremy Safran became increasingly interested in investigating the ways in which attachment representations influence the therapeutic relationship. In this paper, we test such influence in a sample of thirty outpatients who received Brief Relational Therapy by comparing their independently coded pre-treatment Adult Attachment Interview (AAI) with their narratives in a post-treatment interview about the relationship with the therapist (the Patient Relationship Interview at Termination, PRI-T). The PRI-T was coded with the following three measures: i) The Patient Attachment to Therapist Rating Scale (PAT-RS), which assesses the quality of the patient’s attachment relationship to the therapist; ii) the Coherence scale from the AAI, adapted for use on the PRI-T; and iii) the Patient Attachment Classification System (PACS), which measures generalized differences in how individuals convey their experiences and feelings. Results suggest that patients’ AAI predicts how they experience, represent, and communicate about the therapeutic relationship at the end of treatment, as shown by the PAT-RS, the Coherence scale adapted for use on the PRI-T, and the PACS applied to the PRI-T. These findings lend support to Safran and others’ hypothesis that patients’ AAI-status plays a role in patients’ representations of the relationship with the therapist.

The Relationship Between Texture Responses on the Rorschach and Adult Attachment

2010 ◽  
Vol 31 (1) ◽  
pp. 4-21 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kazunori Iwasa ◽  
Toshiki Ogawa
Keyword(s):  
Graduate Students ◽  
Adult Attachment ◽  
Japanese Population ◽  
Attachment Anxiety ◽  
Anxiety Scale ◽  
Self Report ◽  
Comprehensive System ◽  
Attachment Avoidance ◽  
Sensitive Measure ◽  
The Relationship

We examined the relationship between texture responses (T) on the Rorschach and adult attachment in the Japanese population. 47 Japanese undergraduate and graduate students (mean age = 20.16, SD = 1.87) completed a self-report adult attachment scale as well as the Rorschach. An ANOVA revealed that T = 1 participants were attached more securely than were other groups. T > 1 participants were more preoccupied with attachment and scored higher on an attachment anxiety scale than the T = 1 group. Although these results were consistent with the interpretation of the texture response according to the Comprehensive System (CS), the results obtained for T = 0 participants were inconsistent with hypotheses derived from the CS. T = 0 participants were high on preoccupied and attachment anxiety scores, although they were theoretically expected to be high on dismissing or attachment avoidance. These results indicated that – at least in Japan – T should be regarded as a sensitive measure of attachment anxiety.

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