Lack of Trust in Maternal Support is Associated with Negative Interpretations of Ambiguous Maternal Behavior

Winter, Sabrina De; Vandevivere, Eva; Waters, Theodore E. A.; Braet, Caroline; Bosmans, Guy

doi:10.1007/s10826-015-0197-4

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“…Trust in parents develops during early attachment relationships with caregivers [70,71]. Over numerous interactions in which caregivers make and keep promises, individuals develop an expectation that others will act in trustworthy ways, strengthening their capacity to trust others [72].…”

Section: Parent-teen Trustmentioning

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Exploring mentalization, trust, communication quality, and alienation in adolescents

Clarke

Rose

2020

PLoS ONE

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Introduction A growing body of evidence has demonstrated the importance of mentalization for adolescents' psychosocial functioning; however, further research is needed to understand links between mentalization and other socio-cognitive factors. The aim of this quantitative, crosssectional study was to investigate the relationship between a teen's capacity to mentalize and three attachment-related factors: parent-teen trust, parent-teen communication, and parent-teen alienation. Methods In an online survey, 82 (mainly) Australian adolescents (57 female; 23 male; 2 non-binary; mean age 17.09 years) completed: i) The Children's Eyes Test, which measured mentalization; and ii) The Inventory of Parent and Peer Attachment-45, which measured trust, communication quality, and alienation. Results In teens' relationships with both mothers and fathers, trust and communication quality were significantly positively correlated (p = .001) when controlling for age and gender. Both were significantly negatively correlated with alienation (p = .001) with control variables included. Capacity to mentalize did not correlate with trust, communication quality, or alienation in relationships with either mothers or fathers (p � .05). Conclusions Possible reasons are proposed for why no relationship was found between mentalization and trust, communication quality, or alienation. Implications for future research are discussed.

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Section: Parent-teen Trustmentioning

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Exploring mentalization, trust, communication quality, and alienation in adolescents

Clarke

Rose

2020

PLoS ONE

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“…In middle childhood, Bosmans and colleagues experimentally confirmed information processing biases. These interpretation (De Winter et al 2016), attentional (Bosmans et al 2009), and memory biases (Dujardin et al 2014) exclude the processing of incongruent attachment information, assuming that once trait trust (or lack of trait trust) is established, this becomes a stable feature of the attachment relationship.…”

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State Trust in Middle Childhood: An Experimental Manipulation of Maternal Support

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Roels

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J Child Fam Stud

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Attachment representations have traditionally been considered a stable trait, although evidence is found that attachment varies over time and situations conditional upon exposure to life-events and diverse contextual factors. This suggests that attachment consists of both trait and state like components. The current study aimed to evaluate if experiences with maternal support modulate children's state trust in mother's availability. For this purpose, we set up an experimental procedure. First, children watched a negative mood inducing video to activate negative emotions. In the following experimental phase, mothers were randomly assigned to one of three conditions. In condition one, mothers were instructed to provide secure base support to the distressed child. In the second condition, mother

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“…Recent research showed that children with more trust in maternal support, more frequently interpret ambiguous maternal behavior in a secure manner (De Winter, Vandevivere, Waters, Braet, & Bosmans, ). However, this correlational study could not determine the causal direction of this effect.…”

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Exploring the Causal Effect of Interpretation Bias on Attachment Expectations

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Attachment theory implies that children's inclination to interpret attachment figures behavior as supportive and available causally influences children's trust in their attachment figure's availability. An experiment was conducted to test whether training children (8-12 years old) to interpret ambiguous interactions with their mothers in a more secure way increases their trust in their mother's availability. Participants (N = 49) were randomly assigned to either a secure condition to train children to interpret their mother's behavior as supportive or a neutral placebo condition, where interpretations were unrelated to maternal support. Results supported the hypothesis: After the secure training, children interpreted maternal behavior more securely and trusted more in her availability. This suggests that attachment-related processing biases causally affect attachment expectations.

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Lack of Trust in Maternal Support is Associated with Negative Interpretations of Ambiguous Maternal Behavior

Cited by 16 publications

References 29 publications

Exploring mentalization, trust, communication quality, and alienation in adolescents

Exploring mentalization, trust, communication quality, and alienation in adolescents

State Trust in Middle Childhood: An Experimental Manipulation of Maternal Support

Exploring the Causal Effect of Interpretation Bias on Attachment Expectations

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