Language use in the Adult Attachment Interview: Evidence for attachment-specific emotion regulation

2012 ◽  
Vol 20 (1) ◽  
pp. 23-37 ◽  
Author(s):  
JESSICA L. BORELLI ◽  
DARYN H. DAVID ◽  
ANNE RIFKIN-GRABOI ◽  
DAVID A. SBARRA ◽  
MATTHIAS R. MEHL ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Emotion Regulation ◽  
Adult Attachment ◽  
Language Use ◽  
Adult Attachment Interview ◽  
Specific Emotion

Movement and Emotional Facial Expressions during the Adult Attachment Interview: Interaction Effects of Attachment and Anxiety Disorder

2021 ◽  
Vol 54 (1) ◽  
pp. 47-58
Author(s):  
Uwe Altmann ◽  
Catharina Friemann ◽  
Theresa S. Frank ◽  
Mareike C. Sittler ◽  
Désirée Schoenherr ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Emotion Regulation ◽  
Anxiety Disorder ◽  
Facial Expressions ◽  
Adult Attachment ◽  
Interaction Effects ◽  
Adult Attachment Interview ◽  
Psychological Disorder ◽  
Coding System ◽  
Emotional Facial Expressions ◽  
Parental Figures

Introduction: Adult attachment is commonly associated with emotion regulation. Less is known about the nonverbal embodiment of adult attachment. Objective: We hypothesized that dismissing attachment is related to less movement and fewer facial expressions of emotions, whereas preoccupied attachment is associated with more negative emotional facial expressions. Moreover, the interaction of attachment and the presence of an anxiety disorder (AD) was explored. Methods: The sample included 95 individuals, 21 with AD without comorbidity, 21 with AD and comorbid major depression (AD-CD), and 53 healthy controls. We analyzed nonverbal behavior during a part of the Adult Attachment Interview (AAI) asking about the family and parental figures. The movements of the interviewees were captured via Motion Energy Analysis. Facial expressions were coded according to the Facial Action Coding System using the OpenFace software. We compared individuals with secure, dismissing, and preoccupied states of mind (assessed with the AAI) with regard to the frequency and complexity of movements and the frequency of the facial expressions such as happy, sad, and contemptuous. Results: As expected, dismissingly attached individuals moved less often and with lower complexity than securely attached. For emotional facial expressions, a main effect of the disorder group and interaction effects of attachment by disorder were found. In the AD-CD group, dismissingly attached patients showed comparatively fewer happy facial expressions than securely attached individuals. Conclusions: Reduced movement specifically seems to be related to dismissing attachment when interviewees talk about significant parental figures. Facial expressions of emotions related to attachment occurred when maladaptive emotion regulation strategies were intensified by a psychological disorder.

scholarly journals Attachment in adolescence: A move to the level of emotion regulation

2010 ◽  
Vol 27 (2) ◽  
pp. 181-190 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joseph P. Allen ◽  
Erin M. Miga
Keyword(s):  
Emotion Regulation ◽  
Social Interactions ◽  
Adult Attachment ◽  
Adult Attachment Interview ◽  
Unexpected Finding ◽  
Strange Situation ◽  
Social Emotion ◽  
State Of Mind ◽  
Interactions With Peers

The early adolescent’s state of mind in the Adult Attachment Interview (AAI) is more closely linked to social interactions with peers, who are unlikely to serve as attachment figures, than it is to (i) qualities of the adolescent’s interactions with parents, (ii) the AAI of the adolescent’s mother, or (iii) the adolescent’s prior Strange Situation behavior. This unexpected finding suggests the value of reconceptualizing AAI autonomy/ security as a marker of the adolescent’s capacity for emotion regulation in social interactions. Supporting this, we note that the AAI was originally validated not as a marker of attachment experiences or expectations with one’s caregivers, but as a predictor of caregiving capacity sufficient to produce secure offspring. As such, the AAI may be fruitfully viewed as primarily assessing social emotion regulation capacities that support both strong caregiving skills and strong skills relating with peers.

Comparative validity of the Adult Attachment Interview and the Adult Attachment Projective

2015 ◽  
Vol 17 (5) ◽  
pp. 429-447 ◽  
Author(s):  
Karen Jones-Mason ◽  
I. Elaine Allen ◽  
Steve Hamilton ◽  
Sandra J. Weiss
Keyword(s):  
Adult Attachment ◽  
Adult Attachment Interview ◽  
Adult Attachment Projective

scholarly journals Reduced effective emotion regulation in night owls.

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ray Norbury
Keyword(s):  
Emotion Regulation ◽  
Sleep Quality ◽  
Depressive Symptomatology ◽  
Cognitive Reappraisal ◽  
Self Report ◽  
Quality Trait ◽  
Expressive Suppression ◽  
Specific Emotion ◽  
Depression Symptomatology ◽  
Age Range

Previous research has demonstrated a clear link between late chronotype and depression. The vulnerability factors underpinning this link, however, are unclear. Here the relationship between two specific emotion regulation strategies, cognitive reappraisal and expressive suppression, and chronotype was investigated using multiple regression. Two hundred and fourty participants (age range 18- 80, 189 females) completed validated self-report questionnaires assaying chronotype, neuroticism, depression symptomatology, sleep quality and emotion regulation. Eveningness was associated increased expressive suppression and morningness was associated with increased cognitive reappraisal after controlling for age, gender, depressive symptomatology, neuroticism and sleep quality. Trait expressive suppression and reduced cognitive reappraisal are known to increase depression risk. Our results suggest that eveningness is associated with impaired emotion regulation which may confer risk for future depression. These findings suggest modifiable markers that could be therapeutically targeted to prevent the onset of depression in late chronotype individuals.

scholarly journals Vinculação em mães adolescentes e seus bebés

Psicologia ◽  
2014 ◽  
Vol 20 (1) ◽  
pp. 11
Author(s):  
Ines Jongenelen ◽  
Isabel Soares ◽  
Karin Grossmann ◽  
Carla Martins
Keyword(s):  
Adult Attachment ◽  
Adult Attachment Interview

Neste artigo, as autoras apresentam uma investigação empírica com mães adolescentes e seus bebés, conduzida sob a perspectiva da Teoria da Vinculação de Bowlby. Quarenta adolescentes e seus bebés foram avaliados na gravides e 12º mês do pós-parto, com base, respectivamente, na Adult Attachment Interview e na Situação Estranha. Os resultados revelam que a maioria dos bebés apresenta uma organização de vinculação segura à mãe, aos 12 meses de idade. Não foi encontrada uma associação significativa entre a classificação das mães na AAI e a classificação dos seus bebés na Situação Estranha, quer ao nível dos três padrões, quer em função da dimensão segurança versus insegurança da vinculação. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.17575/rpsicol.v20i1.375

Earned- and continuous-security in adult attachment: Relation to depressive symptomatology and parenting style

1994 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. 359-373 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jane L. Pearson ◽  
Deborah A. Cohn ◽  
Philip A. Cowan ◽  
Carolyn Pape Cowan
Keyword(s):  
Parenting Styles ◽  
Adult Attachment ◽  
Depressive Symptomatology ◽  
Adult Attachment Interview ◽  
Model Classification ◽  
Working Models ◽  
Working Model ◽  
Early Experiences ◽  
Earned Security ◽  
Early Relationships

AbstractThe secure working model classification of adult attachment, as derived from Main and Goldwyn's (in press) Adult Attachment Interview scoring system, was considered in terms of earned-security and continuous-security. Earned-security was a classification given to adults who described difficult, early relationships with parents, but who also had current secure working models as indicated by high coherency scores; continuous-security referred to a classification in which individuals described secure early attachment relationship with parents and current secure working models. Working models of attachment were classified as earned-secure, continuous-secure, or insecure in a sample of 40 parents of preschool children. Comparisons among the classifications were conducted on a measure of depressive symptoms and two sets of ratings of observed parenting styles. Adults with earned-secure classifications had comparable depressive symptomatology to insecures, with 30% of the insecures, 40% of the earned-secures, and only 10% of the continuous-secures having scores exceeding the clinical cut-off. The rate of depressive symptomatology in the earned-secure group suggests that reconstructions of past difficulties may remain emotional liabilities despite a current secure working model. With regard to parenting styles with their preschoolers, the behavior of earned-secure parents was comparable to that of the continuous-secures. This refinement in conceptualizing secure working models suggests ways for understanding variation in pathways to competent parenting as well as a possible perspective on how adults' adverse early experiences may continue to place them and their children at risk.

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