Attachment Representations in Adults with Congenital Blindness: Association with Maternal Interactive Behaviors during Childhood

Ardito, Rita B.; Adenzato, Mauro; Dell'Osbel, Gianmario; Izard, Elena; Veglia, Fabio

doi:10.2466/pr0.95.1.263-274

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“…Although our results are preliminary and refer to a limited sample, they tend to falsify the idea that the directive and overprotective behavior of mothers of children with acquired blindness necessarily has disturbing consequences for their children's development. The results of this work extend results reported by Ardito, Adenzato, Dell'Osbel, Izard, and Veglia (2004) concerning a group of adults with congenital blindness and demonstrate that the mental state with respect to attachment of a person with blindness does not depend on the onset age of visual impairment.…”

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Impact of Maternal Directiveness and Overprotectiveness on the Personality Development of a Sample of Individuals With Acquired Blindness

2006

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The literature has frequently shown how mothers of children with blindness tend to be highly directive and overprotective with their children. This study investigated whether this maternal interactive style can have negative consequences on the psychological development of persons with acquired blindness, or whether it can be considered functional and appropriate to these individuals' needs during childhood. This aim was pursued by adopting attachment theory as a conceptual reference and administering the Adult Attachment Interview (AAI) to a sample of participants with early onset blindness. Results suggested that, as long as mothers are loving and are sensitive to their children's needs, their greater physical intervention and control of child exploration can play an important role in helping their severely sight-impaired children develop secure and well-balanced personalities.

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Impact of Maternal Directiveness and Overprotectiveness on the Personality Development of a Sample of Individuals With Acquired Blindness

2006

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“…Concerning the low frequency of exploration behaviors displayed toward the two stimuli by control participants, it is interesting to note that, according to the attachment theory, the ability to explore arises as a consequence of the perception of a safety state, which control participants did not seem to have (e.g., Ardito et al, 2004; Steele et al, 2004; Cookman, 2005; Adenzato et al, 2006; Cicerale et al, 2013). In particular, according to the attachment theory humans are motivated to maintain a dynamic balance between familiarity-preserving, stress-reducing behaviors (attachment to protective individuals and to familiar home sites, retreat from the strange and novel) and antithetical exploratory and information-seeking behaviors (Bretherton, 1992).…”

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Can Doll therapy preserve or promote attachment in people with cognitive, behavioral, and emotional problems? A pilot study in institutionalized patients with dementia

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Doll therapy is a non-pharmacological intervention aimed at reducing behavioral and psychological disorders in institutionalized patients with dementia. This therapy as a care tool has been integrated into the context of long-term care institutions, in which the need to find solutions to cognitive, behavioral and emotional problems showed by people with dementia meets the primary objective of developing good care practices focusing on patients and their needs. In the present work we adopt the Bowlby’s theory of attachment to investigate the effectiveness of Doll therapy. The hypothesis that we here propose is that the emotional experience of the person with dementia during Doll therapy activates caregiving and exploration systems together with the attachment one. To test this hypothesis we compared institutionalized patients with dementia undergoing Doll therapy with a control group and assessed measures of the relational dimension with the environment, such as gaze direction, behaviors of exploration, and behaviors of caregiving. We used an experimental protocol consisting of 10 non-consecutive sessions structured with the goal of recreating a situation of (1) separation from a known figure and (2) interaction with the environment in order to partially recreate the prototypical phases of the “Strange situation.” All sessions were videotaped and analyzed through an observational grid. Results support the effectiveness of Doll therapy in promoting and maintaining the affective-relational dimension of attachment-caregiving and the attentive dimension of exploration in patients with advanced stage of dementia. Thus, our results suggest that the use of Doll therapy promotes clinically significant improvements in the ability to relate with the surrounding world. This may be important for managing and caring for patients with dementia in institutionalized context.

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“…Many studies stated that children who have cochlear implants at an early age and are able to develop spoken language proficiency are more likely to involve positive psycho-social functioning, increased selfconfidence, greater self-esteem, improved communication skills, and a more positive view of life than those who did not receive cochlear implants [24 -29] . [30] . They pursued this hypothesis by adopting theory of attachment, which states that directive and overprotective parental behaviors are experienced by the person with congenital blindness as encouraging and functional, as long as they are accompanied by an affective, loving, and supportive attitude.…”

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Perceived parenting as related to emotional competence of visually and hearing impaired adolescents

Juyal

2013

International Journal on Disability and Human Development

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This study was designed to investigate the difference between perceived parenting style of adolescents with visual and hearing impairment, as well as their emotional competence as an effect of perception of parenting style. We also found a relationship between the variable of perceived parenting and the emotional competence. The sample consisted of 140 participants, 70 visually and 70 hearing impaired adolescents, who were equally divided according to gender in each group. Results indicated that adolescents of both groups differed significantly on perceived parenting and the emotional competence variable. Visually impaired adolescents showed more positive perception and were more emotionally competent than the adolescents with hearing impairment. A positive significant relationship was shown by the visually impaired group between most of the modes of perceived parenting and aspects of emotional competence variable. On the whole, the perception of parenting of adolescents with hearing impairment was found to be significantly lower than the visually impaired adolescents. Similarly, emotional competence among the hearing impaired group as regards the relationship between the two variables was also found to be significantly lower as compared with the visually impaired group. Regarding gender, boys with visual impairment perceived more positive parenting and showed more emotional competence than the girls compared with hearing impaired group.

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Attachment Representations in Adults with Congenital Blindness: Association with Maternal Interactive Behaviors during Childhood

Cited by 12 publications

References 32 publications

Impact of Maternal Directiveness and Overprotectiveness on the Personality Development of a Sample of Individuals With Acquired Blindness

Impact of Maternal Directiveness and Overprotectiveness on the Personality Development of a Sample of Individuals With Acquired Blindness

Can Doll therapy preserve or promote attachment in people with cognitive, behavioral, and emotional problems? A pilot study in institutionalized patients with dementia

Perceived parenting as related to emotional competence of visually and hearing impaired adolescents

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