Associations between parental and child attachment representations.

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Serval ID
serval:BIB_4446A7D12B79
Type
Article: article from journal or magazin.
Collection
Publications
Institution
Title
Associations between parental and child attachment representations.
Journal
Attachment & human development
Author(s)
Miljkovitch R., Pierrehumbert B., Bretherton I., Halfon O.
ISSN
1461-6734
Publication state
Published
Issued date
2004
Peer-reviewed
Oui
Volume
6
Number
3
Pages
305-25
Language
english
Notes
Publication types: Journal Article - Publication Status: ppublish
Abstract
In the present article on intergenerational transmission of attachment representations, we use mothers' and fathers' Adult Attachment Interview classifications to predict a 3-year-old's responses to the Attachment Story Completion Task (ASCT). We present a Q-sort coding procedure for the ASCT, which was developed for children as young as three. The Q-sort yields scores on four attachment dimensions (security, deactivation, hyperactivation, and disorganization). One-way ANOVAs revealed significant mother-child associations for each dimension, although results for the hyperactivation and disorganization dimensions were significant only according to contrast tests. Conversely, no father-child association was found, regardless of the dimension considered. Findings are discussed in terms of the respective part played by each parent in their children's emotional development.
Keywords
Adult, Child, Preschool, Female, Humans, Male, Middle Aged, Object Attachment, Parent-Child Relations, Questionnaires, Reactive Attachment Disorder, Reproducibility of Results
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Web of science
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10/03/2008 12:31
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20/08/2019 14:48
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