Attachment patterns and emotion regulation strategies in the second year

Crugnola, C Riva; Tambelli, Renata; Spinelli, Maria; Gazzotti, S; Caprin, C; Albizzati, A

doi:10.1016/j.infbeh.2010.11.002

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“…Second, infant attachment security at 12 months was expected to predict infants’ use of emotion regulation strategies at 12 and 18 months. In line with attachment theory and previous findings, secure infants were expected to engage in more adaptive strategies than insecure infants; insecure-avoidant infants were expected to engage in less mother-oriented, more object (toy)-oriented, and more self-comforting strategies (Braungart & Stifter, 1991; Crugnola et al, 2011; Diener et al, 2002; Leerkes & Wong, 2012); and insecure-resistant infants were expected to engage in more mother-oriented, avoidance, and tension-reduction strategies (Crugnola et al, 2011; Leerkes & Wong, 2012), compared to secure infants. Third, infant temperamental negative affectivity (at 12 and 18 months) was expected to moderate the relation between maternal bedtime emotional availability and infant emotion regulation strategies at 12 and 18 months.…”

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“…Insecure-avoidant infants who likely experienced repeated rejection from their parent tend to engage in less parent-oriented, more object-oriented, and more self-comforting emotion regulation strategies (Braungart & Stifter, 1991; Crugnola et al, 2011; Diener et al, 2002; Leerkes & Wong, 2012; Martins, Soares, Martins, Tereno, & Osório, 2012). Insecure-resistant infants are more likely to employ high levels of parent-oriented emotion regulation strategies possibly due to their uncertainty of parental emotional availability based on a history of inconsistent care (Bridges & Grolnick, 1995; Cassidy, 1994).…”

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Infant emotion regulation: Relations to bedtime emotional availability, attachment security, and temperament

Kim¹,

Stifter²,

Philbrook³

et al. 2014

Infant Behavior and Development

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The present study examines the influences of mothers’ emotional availability towards their infants during bedtime, infant attachment security, and interactions between bedtime parenting and attachment with infant temperamental negative affectivity, on infants’ emotion regulation strategy use at 12 and 18 months. Infants’ emotion regulation strategies were assessed during a frustration task that required infants to regulate their emotions in the absence of parental support. Whereas emotional availability was not directly related to infants’ emotion regulation strategies, infant attachment security had direct relations with infants’ orienting towards the environment and tension reduction behaviors. Both maternal emotional availability and security of the mother-infant attachment relationship interacted with infant temperamental negative affectivity to predict two strategies that were less adaptive in regulating frustration.

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Infant emotion regulation: Relations to bedtime emotional availability, attachment security, and temperament

Kim¹,

Stifter²,

Philbrook³

et al. 2014

Infant Behavior and Development

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“…During normal interaction, mother-infant communication appears to be characterized by processes of matching/mismatching/disruption/repair in which the mother and the infant, after failing to share their actions and intentions, effect successful repair, leading to the emergence of new matched states [25,26,27]. These methods of mutual regulation form the basis of future attachment patterns and determine the quality of secure versus insecure attachment [28,29]. They also form the basis of an infant's subsequent ability to regulate emotions, and they have a long-term impact on an infant's socioemotional skills and psychopathological risk [30].…”

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Mother-Infant Emotion Regulation at Three Months: The Role of Maternal Anxiety, Depression and Parenting Stress

Crugnola

Ierardi²,

Ferro³

et al. 2016

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Background: While the association between anxiety and postpartum depression is well known, few studies have investigated the relationship between these two states and parenting stress. Furthermore, a number of studies have found that postpartum depression affects mother-infant emotion regulation, but there has been only one study on anxiety and emotion regulation and no studies at all on parenting stress and emotion regulation. Therefore, the primary aim of our study is to identify, in a community sample of 71 mothers, the relationship between maternal depression, anxiety, and parenting stress. The second aim is to examine the relationship between anxiety, postpartum depression, and parenting stress and mother-infant emotion regulation assessed at 3 months. Methods: Mother-infant interaction was coded with a modified version of the Infant Caregiver and Engagement Phases (ICEP) using a microanalytic approach. The Edinburgh Postnatal Depression Scale (EPDS), State-Trait Anxiety Inventory (STAI), and Parenting Stress Index-Short Form (PSI-SF) were administered to the mothers to assess depression, anxiety, and parenting stress, respectively. Results: Analysis revealed correlations between anxiety and depression, showing that parenting stress is associated with both states. In a laboratory observation, depression was correlated with both negative maternal states and negative dyadic matches as well as infant positive/mother negative mismatches; anxiety was correlated with both negative maternal states and infant negative states as well as mismatches involving one of the partners having a negative state. Multiple regression analysis showed that anxiety is a greater predictor than depression of less adequate styles of mother-infant emotion regulation. Parenting stress was not shown to predict such regulation.

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“…self-soothing and distraction) used for emotion regulation purposes in preschool years (Calkins, 2004). Securely attached children demonstrate help-seeking behavior for example by communicating their need for co-regulation of emotion to adults, using more positive strategies and thus protecting the attachment relationship in high-stress situations (Crugnola et al, 2011). This protected relationship provides the child with more diverse strategies for monitoring, evaluating and modifying emotional reactions (Leerkes & Wong, 2012), making them capable of "guided self-regulation" (Sroufe et al, 2005, p. 107).…”

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Parent–child attachment, academic performance and the process of high-school dropout: a narrative review

Ramsdal

Bergvik

Wynn

2015

Attachment & Human Development

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Poor academic performance is a strong predictor of school dropout. Researchers have tried to disentangle variables influencing academic performance. However, studies on preschool and early care variables are seldom examined when explaining the school dropout process. We reviewed the literature on the relationship between caregiver-child attachment and academic performance, including attachment studies from preschool years, seeking out potential contributions to academic performance and the dropout process. The review was organized according to a model of four main mediating hypotheses: the attachment-teaching hypothesis, the social network hypothesis, the attachment-cooperation hypothesis, and the attachment self-regulation hypothesis. The results of the review are summed up in a model. There is some support for all four hypotheses. The review indicates that attachment and early care contribute substantially to dropout and graduation processes. Mediation effects should be given far more attention in future research.

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Attachment patterns and emotion regulation strategies in the second year

Cited by 42 publications

References 47 publications

Infant emotion regulation: Relations to bedtime emotional availability, attachment security, and temperament

Infant emotion regulation: Relations to bedtime emotional availability, attachment security, and temperament

Mother-Infant Emotion Regulation at Three Months: The Role of Maternal Anxiety, Depression and Parenting Stress

Parent–child attachment, academic performance and the process of high-school dropout: a narrative review

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