Children's Attentional Processing of Mother and Proximity Seeking

Bosmans, Guy; Braet, Caroline; Heylen, Joke; Raedt, Rudi De

doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0124038

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“…Also, less trusting children remember more negative interactions with mother at the expense of remembering positive interactions with her (Dujardin, Bosmans, Braet, & Goossens, ). Finally, the attention of insecurely attached children is automatically overly focused on mother, at the expense of exploration and support seeking (Bosmans, Braet, Koster, & De Raedt, ; Bosmans, Braet, Heylen, & De Raedt, ).…”

Section: Parent–child Secure Attachment In Middle Childhoodmentioning

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Attachment in Middle Childhood: Progress and Prospects

Bosmans

Kerns

2015

New Directions for Child and Adolescent Development

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Contrary to the substantial amount of research on infant, preschool, adolescent, and adult attachment, middle childhood has long been neglected by the international attachment research community. In the past two decades, however, there has been a steep increase in research focusing on middle childhood attachment. This article provides an overview of past research, with a focus on the characteristics of secure versus insecure attachment at this age period, and an understanding of the different approaches to measure attachment. The article demonstrates the relevance of past middle childhood attachment research for both developmental psychologists and clinicians trying to understand the importance of middle childhood in individuals' development across the life span.

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Section: Parent–child Secure Attachment In Middle Childhoodmentioning

confidence: 99%

Attachment in Middle Childhood: Progress and Prospects

Bosmans

Kerns

2015

New Directions for Child and Adolescent Development

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“…An experimental observational procedure was used to assess children's support‐seeking behavior during stress in middle childhood. This procedure was developed to elicit observable and quantifiable support‐seeking behavior toward mother in middle childhood (Bosmans, Braet, Heylen, & De Raedt, ). In accordance with the proposition that social comparison and hurt pride are particularly stressful and activate a need for parental support in this age group (see Bosmans et al., ; Gunnar, Talge, & Herrera, ; Mayseless, ), children were given an unsolvable puzzle described as easily solved by their peers.…”

Section: Research Aim 1: Attachment Expectations and Support Seekingmentioning

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Middle Childhood Support‐Seeking Behavior During Stress: Links With Self‐Reported Attachment and Future Depressive Symptoms

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This study tested whether children's more anxious and avoidant attachment is linked to decreased support-seeking behavior toward their mother during stress in middle childhood, and whether children's decreased support-seeking behavior enhances the impact of experiencing life events on the increase of depressive symptoms 18 months later. Ninety-eight 8- to 12-year-old children filled out questionnaires assessing their level of anxious and avoidant attachment and depressive symptoms. Children's support-seeking behavior was observed through measuring the time children waited before calling for their mother's help while carrying out a stressful task. Results supported the hypothesis that more anxiously or avoidantly attached children waited longer before seeking maternal support. Moreover, waiting longer was related to increased depressive symptoms at follow-up in children who reported more experienced life events.

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“…Like scripts more generally, these features of the secure base script are thought to provide a direct link to cognitive processing and behavior in relationships (e.g. Bosmans, Braet, Heylen & De Raedt, in press; Waters, Brockmeyer, & Crowell, 2013). …”

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Secure base representations in middle childhood across two Western cultures: Associations with parental attachment representations and maternal reports of behavior problems.

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Recent work examining the content and organization of attachment representations suggests that one way in which we represent the attachment relationship is in the form of a cognitive script. That said, this work has largely focused on early childhood or adolescence/adulthood, leaving a large gap in our understanding of script-like attachment representations in the middle childhood period. We present two studies and provide three critical pieces of evidence regarding the presence of a script-like representation of the attachment relationship in middle childhood. We present evidence that a middle childhood attachment script assessment tapped a stable underlying script using samples drawn from two western cultures, the United States (Study 1) and Belgium (Study 2). We also found evidence suggestive of the intergenerational transmission of secure base script knowledge (Study 1) and relations between secure base script knowledge and symptoms of psychopathology in middle childhood (Study 2). The results from this investigation represent an important downward extension of the secure base script construct.

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Children's Attentional Processing of Mother and Proximity Seeking

Cited by 34 publications

References 66 publications

Attachment in Middle Childhood: Progress and Prospects

Attachment in Middle Childhood: Progress and Prospects

Middle Childhood Support‐Seeking Behavior During Stress: Links With Self‐Reported Attachment and Future Depressive Symptoms

Secure base representations in middle childhood across two Western cultures: Associations with parental attachment representations and maternal reports of behavior problems.

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