Attachments in a Multiple-Caregiver and Multiple-Infant Environment: The Case of the Israeli Kibbutzim

Attachment theory in adolescence and its relevance to developmental psychopathology

“…These findings substantiate the way in which an adult's state of mind in relation to their emotional experience during childhood links to their own parenting practices, thus maintaining attachment patterns (Rosenstein and Horowitz, 1996). However, instances have also been found when transmission of patterns does not occur intergenerationally (e.g., Sagi et al, 1995), which arguably points towards the probabilistic nature of the transmission of attachment, and indicates that attachment patterns can change in some circumstances. Research has also shown that some adults have been able to develop autonomous states of mind in relation to attachment figures (termed 'earned security'), despite clear indications of early adverse attachment experiences in later years (Pearson et al, 1994;Phelps et al, 1998;Schuengel et al, 1999).…”

Change in Atypical Maternal Behavior Predicts Change in Attachment Disorganization From 12 to 24 Months in a High‐Risk Sample

“…Of course, the current study did not include genetic information that would have allowed an investigation of the possibility that the concordance between mother–child dyads was a product of genes shared by the mother and infant. There is some suggestion that the DRD4 long allele is related to disorganization (e.g., Lakatos et al, 2000, 2003); however, other studies have failed to find evidence of such causal processes within the attachment system (e.g., Bokhorst et al, 2003; Sagi et al, 1995).…”

Balancing the Family and the Collective in Raising Children: Why Communal Sleeping in Kibbutzim Was Predestined to End*

“…Secondly, unlike the ecology of kibbutz home sleeping, absence of intergenerational attachment transmission (Sagi et al, 1997), and links between infants' attachment security and maternal sensitivity (Aviezer et al, 1999) suggest that maternal sensitivity did not mediate between mothers' attachment representations and infants' attachment classifications in the unusual ecology of kibbutz collective sleeping. Recall that in a collectively sleeping sample, similar lower congruence was found in the quality of attachments that two children formed with the same caregiver (Sagi et al, 1995). Analogously, the incongruity found only for collectively sleeping families between young adolescent's anxious coping style with separation from close people and their parents' positive appraisal of their encounters with numerous caregiving changes may allude to parents' higher detachment from their children's daily experiences and feelings (Aviezer & Sagi, 1999).…”

“…It was proposed that when rearing conditions and children's characteristics are comparable, caregivers would tend to establish similar attachment relationships with different children because adults' representations of attachment are expressed in their caregiving behaviors. Thus, a second study focused on the congruence of the quality of attachments that two children form with the same caregiver in a collectively sleeping sample and home sleeping sample (Sagi et al, 1995). Again the data showed that congruence characterized only the home sleeping sample and was much less prevalent in the communally sleeping sample.…”

“…Again the data showed that congruence characterized only the home sleeping sample and was much less prevalent in the communally sleeping sample. It was suggested, therefore, that the ecology of night care might influence not only the relationships with mothers but also the coherence of relationships with professional caregivers across different infants in the same infant house (Sagi et al, 1995). Finally, it was important to examine the pattern of influence of these early relationships on later adaptations.…”