Negotiation styles in mother—child narrative co-construction in middle childhood: Associations with early attachment

2007 ◽  
Vol 31 (2) ◽  
pp. 149-160 ◽  
Author(s):  
Motti Gini ◽  
David Oppenheim ◽  
Abraham Sagi-Schwartz
Keyword(s):  
Middle Childhood ◽  
Secure Base ◽  
Strange Situation ◽  
Early Attachment ◽  
Mother Attachment ◽  
Ainsworth's Strange Situation

This study examined associations between infant—mother attachment, assessed using Ainsworth's Strange Situation at 12-months, and mother—child narrative co-construction in 110 Israeli mothers and their 71/2 year-old children to examine aspects of Bowlby's (1973) notion of Goal-Corrected Partnerships. Narrative co-constructions were classified into a mutual-balanced style or one of two non-mutual/unbalanced styles of affective negotiation. Dyads with children classified as secure were more likely to be classified as mutual-balanced than dyads with children classified as insecure (ambivalent or disorganized). The latter were likely to be classified into one of the two Non-mutual/Unbalanced classifications (i.e., Disengaged or Overwhelming). Contributions of this study to broadening our understanding of secure-base in the post-infancy years, and for increasing our knowledge about goal-corrected partnerships, are discussed.

Mothers’ empathic understanding of their preschoolers’ internal experience: Relations with early attachment

2001 ◽  
Vol 25 (1) ◽  
pp. 16-26 ◽  
Author(s):  
David Oppenheim ◽  
Nina Koren-Karie ◽  
Abraham Sagi
Keyword(s):  
Strange Situation ◽  
Early Attachment ◽  
Empathic Understanding ◽  
Early Infant ◽  
Mother Attachment ◽  
Composite Scores ◽  
Internal Experience

This study examined the links between mothers’ empathic understanding of their preschoolers’ internal experience and early infant-mother attachment. The empathic understanding of 118 mothers of 4.5-year-olds was assessed by showing them three videotaped segments of observations of their children and themselves and interviewing them regarding their children’s and their own thoughts and feelings. Interviews were rated and then classi” ed into one empathic and three nonempathic categories, and mothers’ misperceptions of the observations were coded as well. Infant-mother attachment classifications obtained using the Strange Situation when infants were 12 months old were also available. Results showed associations between mothers’ empathic understanding classifications and children’s attachment classifications as well as differences between mothers of secure and insecure children on one of the two interview composite scores. Also, mothers of insecurely attached children had more misperceptions than those of securely attached children. The contributions of this study to the work on mothers’ representations of their children are discussed.

German Children's Behavior Towards Their Mothers at 12 Months and Their Fathers at 18 Months in Ainsworth's Strange Situation

1981 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 157-181 ◽  
Author(s):  
Klaus E. Grossmann ◽  
Karin Grossmann ◽  
Franz Huber ◽  
Ulrike Wartner
Keyword(s):  
Point Of View ◽  
The Other ◽  
Strange Situation ◽  
Attachment Relationship ◽  
Children's Behavior ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
Ainsworth's Strange Situation

Fourty-nine 12 months old children and their mothers were videotaped in Ainsworth's Strange Situation. Fourty-six of them were videotaped again in the same situation at 18 months with their fathers. Quality of attachment was determined by using Ainsworth's criteria. Fewer children had 'secure' relationships to their parents than in comparable U.S. samples. There was no correlation between infant-mother and infant-father quality of attachment relationship. The results are discussed in terms of parental attempts to cope with cultural demands imposed on them. These specific cultural demands may frequently interfere with the establishment of a securely attached relationship. On the other hand, they may be only transitory and appropriate from an adaptation to culture-specific expectancies point of view.

scholarly journals Taxometric Analysis of Secure Base Script Knowledge in Middle Childhood Reveals Categorical Latent Structure

2019 ◽  
Vol 90 (3) ◽  
pp. 694-707 ◽  
Author(s):  
Theodore E.A. Waters ◽  
Christopher R. Facompré ◽  
Adinda Dujardin ◽  
Magali Van De Walle ◽  
Martine Verhees ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Middle Childhood ◽  
Latent Structure ◽  
Secure Base ◽  
Taxometric Analysis ◽  
Secure Base Script

Intervention in Transmission of Insecure Attachment: A Case Study

1997 ◽  
Vol 80 (2) ◽  
pp. 531-543 ◽  
Author(s):  
Femmie Juffer ◽  
Marinus H. van Ijzendoorn ◽  
Marian J. Bakermans-Kranenburg
Keyword(s):  
Adult Attachment ◽  
Adult Attachment Interview ◽  
Insecure Attachment ◽  
Short Term ◽  
Strange Situation ◽  
Parental Sensitivity ◽  
Home Based ◽  
Mother Attachment ◽  
Home Based Intervention

Several attachment-based intervention studies have been performed, with varying success. An important question is whether short-term interventions can be successful in promoting parental sensitivity and security of infant-parent attachment as well as in changing parental representations of attachment. We investigated this issue in an exploratory way in a case study. A short-term home-based intervention with written material and video feedback, which was effective regarding parental sensitivity and infant security in a former study, was provided a parent who revealed an insecure attachment representation in the Adult Attachment Interview. The intervention sessions were expanded with discussions about past and present experiences of attachment. After four intervention sessions the mother's behavior towards her child was rated as more sensitive than before the intervention. Also, the infant-mother attachment, as observed in the Strange Situation, appeared to be more secure. Nevertheless, in a second Adult Attachment Interview administered after the intervention, the mother showed again an insecure representation of attachment. Possible implications of these results are discussed.

scholarly journals (In)variability of Attachment in Middle Childhood: Secure Base Script Evidence in Diary Data

2014 ◽  
Vol 31 (4) ◽  
pp. 225-242 ◽  
Author(s):  
Guy Bosmans ◽  
Magali Van de Walle ◽  
Lien Goossens ◽  
Eva Ceulemans
Keyword(s):  
Middle Childhood ◽  
Secure Base ◽  
Secure Attachment ◽  
Attachment Figure ◽  
Related Information ◽  
Diary Studies ◽  
Secure Base Script ◽  
The Stability ◽  
Insight Into

Secure attachment is characterised by a secure base script regarding the attachment figure as a source for support. Having such a cognitive script should affect the stability of state attachment. Specifically, incongruent attachment-related information should get assimilated to this secure base script, leading to state attachment scores that hardly fluctuate. For children without a script, state attachment should vary depending on the quality of attachment-related interactions. Two diary studies were carried out in 9- to 13-year-old children. Results suggested that with assimilation: (1) securely attached children fluctuated less in their daily attachment-related appraisals; (2) fluctuations were related to conflicts with mother; (3) this relation was stronger for less securely attached children. Consequently, these studies further support the secure base script hypothesis and provide insight into the interplay of trait and state components of attachment-related appraisals.

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 Stability and change in secure base script knowledge during middle childhood and early adolescence: A 3-year longitudinal study.

2019 ◽  
Vol 55 (11) ◽  
pp. 2379-2388 ◽  
Author(s):  
Theodore E. A. Waters ◽  
Christopher R. Facompré ◽  
Magali Van de Walle ◽  
Adinda Dujardin ◽  
Simon De Winter ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Longitudinal Study ◽  
Early Adolescence ◽  
Middle Childhood ◽  
Secure Base ◽  
Stability And Change ◽  
Secure Base Script

Measurement of Young Children's Close Friendship: A Comparison of Two Independent Assessment Systems and their Associations with Attachment Security

1993 ◽  
Vol 16 (4) ◽  
pp. 563-587 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lise M. Youngblade ◽  
Kathryn A. Park ◽  
Jay Belsky
Keyword(s):  
Attachment Security ◽  
Friendship Quality ◽  
Social Orientation ◽  
Dyadic Relationships ◽  
Coding System ◽  
Strange Situation ◽  
Close Friendship ◽  
Father Relationship ◽  
Mother Attachment ◽  
Q Sort

The purpose of this study was to compare two independent dyadic assessments of children's close friendship and to examine the attachment correlates of both measures. A total of 73 5-year-olds, who had participated in a longitudinal study of child and family development with their parents and their close friend were observed in a 30 minute laboratory freeplay setting. Each friendship pair was: (1) rated every 30 seconds on eight dimensions of close relationships (e.g. connectedness, negativity, synchrony) using the Dyadic Coding System (DCS: Youngblade & Belsky, 1992); (2) sorted on seven similar dimensions of relationships (e.g. positive social orientation, harmony, cohesiveness) using the Dyadic Relationships Q-sort (DRQ: Park & Waters, 1989). Antecedent attachment data were collected at 12 (with mother) and 13 (with father) months in the Strange Situation; at this time each parent also completed the Attachment Q-sort (Waters & Deane, 1985). Each parent completed the Attachment Q-sort again at 36-37 months. The results revealed that both friendship measures captured similar variation in friendship quality. Analyses of the links between child-parent attachment and friendship suggested congruence between Q-sort attachment security and friendship quality measured with the DRQ, but only for the child-father relationship. Analyses using Strange Situation assessments of infant-father attachment revealed counterintuitive associations with friendship quality, as measured by both the DRQ and DCS. There were no statistically significant relations between child-mother attachment security and friendship quality. In general, the findings point to a number of complexities regarding the measurement and interpretation of links between social relationships.

Infants' vocal engagement oriented towards mother versus stranger at 3 months and avoidant attachment behavior at 12 months

2007 ◽  
Vol 31 (1) ◽  
pp. 88-95
Author(s):  
Susanne Völker
Keyword(s):  
Eye Contact ◽  
Time Difference ◽  
Vocal Behavior ◽  
Attachment Behavior ◽  
Strange Situation ◽  
Face To Face ◽  
Avoidant Attachment ◽  
Early Infant ◽  
Ainsworth's Strange Situation

The aim of the present study was to demonstrate that mother avoidance in infants at the age of 12 months can be predicted by the infants' differential vocal engagement to mother versus a female stranger at the age of 3 months. Differential engagement in favor of the mother was supposed to relate to low future avoidance. The vocal behavior of 26 infants was assessed during face-to-face interactions with their mothers and with a strange woman at the age of 3 months. Differential vocal engagement was measured in terms of the time difference the infants spent vocalizing during eye contact with mother and stranger. At the age of 12 months avoidance of the mother was assessed during the reunion episodes of Ainsworth's Strange Situation. The result confirmed the assumption. Differential engagement in 3-month-olds is discussed as an indicator of the early infant–mother relationship.

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