Assessing Attachment: Convergent Validity of the Adult Attachment Interview and the Parental Bonding Instrument

Manassis, Katharina; Owens, Mary; Adam, Kenneth S.; West, Malcolm; Sheldon-Keller, Adrienne

doi:10.1080/j.1440-1614.1999.00560.x

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“…However, promising findings in assessing retest reliability of the PBI suggest that the parental evaluation is a considerably stable measure, not affected by confounding variables like dysthymia, neuroticism, depressive episode, or sex (Plantes et al, 1988;Parker, 1990;Lizardi and Klein, 2005;Wilhelm et al, 2005). Furthermore, good validity of the PBI can be concluded from high agreement between sibling ratings (Parker, 1990) as well as from high correlations with according scales in the Adult Attachment Interview (Manassis et al, 1999). Further, although we have shown that total gray matter volume is not affected by this set of prenatal and postnatal factors, we cannot exclude the possibility that other regions beside the hippocampus are similarly affected.…”

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Maternal Care Modulates the Relationship between Prenatal Risk and Hippocampal Volume in Women But Not in Men

Buß¹,

Lord²,

Wadiwalla³

et al. 2007

J. Neurosci.

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Smaller hippocampal volume is associated with psychiatric disorders. Variations in hippocampal volume are discussed as both a consequence of the neurotoxic effects of stress and as a pre-existing condition leading to increased vulnerability for cognitive and emotional impairments. To investigate whether early experience can account for variability in hippocampal volume in adulthood (vulnerability hypothesis), we assessed the relationship between birth weight and hippocampal volume in 44 subjects. The reported quality of maternal care in early childhood, as evaluated by the Parental Bonding Inventory, was used as index of the quality of the postnatal environment. Hippocampal volume was assessed from magnetic resonance images using a manual segmentation protocol. We show that birth weight significantly predicts hippocampal volume in adulthood only in female subjects reporting low maternal care. The results suggest that the postnatal environment modulates the neurodevelopmental consequences of prenatal risk and that this effect is sex-specific.

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confidence: 99%

Maternal Care Modulates the Relationship between Prenatal Risk and Hippocampal Volume in Women But Not in Men

Buß¹,

Lord²,

Wadiwalla³

et al. 2007

J. Neurosci.

177

115

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“…The presence of PD or some temperamental traits independent from panic could influence the recall of qualitative but also quantitative features of the attachment relation [54]; generally speaking, it is possible that patients with emotional pathologies tend to search for the cause of their anxiety symptoms in their early relations with their parents.…”

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Attachment and Panic Disorder

Pacchierotti¹,

Bossini²,

Castrogiovanni³

et al. 2002

Psychopathology

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A dysfunctional relationship between parents and children can influence cognitive and emotional development and contribute to the development of psychiatric disorders, particularly panic disorder (PD). With the aim of exploring childhood experiences of parenting in PD patients, we compared subjectively perceived climate and objective recall by administering the Parental Bonding Instrument and 10 adjunctive items to 22 out-patients and 22 matched controls. Our analysis showed that DSM-III-R-diagnosed PD patients reported their parents to be significantly less caring than did the control group, while there was no significant difference in objective recall of parenting experiences.

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“…Respondents indicate the degree to which they agree or disagree with 25 statements using a 4-point Likert scale. PBI ratings have been corroborated by reports and interviews with siblings and parents (Parker, 1990) and differ by adult attachment classification (Manassis, Owens, Adam, West, & Sheldon-Keller, 1999). Because children's responses to the mother and father versions were highly correlated (r = .76, p < .001) and because the current study involved parents of both genders, children's responses to the mother and father versions of the questionnaire were averaged to create a composite score of parental warmth (M = 3.37, SD = .56).…”

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Assessing parental empathy: a role for empathy in child attachment

Stern

Borelli

Smiley

2014

Attachment & Human Development

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Although empathy has been associated with helping behavior and relationship quality, little research has evaluated the role of parental empathy in the development of parent-child relationships. The current study (1) establishes preliminary validity of the Parental Affective and Cognitive Empathy Scale (PACES), a method for coding empathy from parents' narrative responses to the Parent Development Interview - Revised for School-Aged Children (PDI-R-SC), and (2) tests a theoretical model of empathy and attachment. Sixty caregivers and their children completed a battery of questionnaire and interview measures, including the PDI-R-SC and the Child Attachment Interview (CAI). Caregivers' interview narratives were scored for empathy using PACES. PACES showed good interrater reliability and good convergent validity with a self-report empathy measure. Parent empathy was positively related to child attachment security (using a continuous score for narrative coherence) and emotional openness on the CAI, as well as to child perceptions of parental warmth. Moreover, parent empathy mediated the relation between parents' self-reported attachment style and their children's attachment security. Implications for attachment theory and future directions for establishing scale validity are discussed.

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Assessing Attachment: Convergent Validity of the Adult Attachment Interview and the Parental Bonding Instrument

Cited by 65 publications

References 23 publications

Maternal Care Modulates the Relationship between Prenatal Risk and Hippocampal Volume in Women But Not in Men

Maternal Care Modulates the Relationship between Prenatal Risk and Hippocampal Volume in Women But Not in Men

Attachment and Panic Disorder

Assessing parental empathy: a role for empathy in child attachment

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