Les représentations d'attachement du jeune enfant. Développement d'un système de codage pour les histoires à compléter

Miljkovitch, Raphaële; Pierrehumbert, Blaise; Karmaniola, Athanassia; Halfon, Olivier

doi:10.3917/dev.032.0143

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“…However, birth order is confounded with age, and after including both variables in the analysis, older children generally had secure attachment classifications more frequently than did younger children (no significant birth order effect was found). This result is in line with Miljkovitch, Pierrehumbert, Karmaniola, and Halfon (2003) who also assessed child attachment in preschool years (3 to 5 years) and used the same attachment measure but evaluated the ASCT by a self-developed Q-sort technique.…”

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Concordance of Attachment Representations in Preschool Siblings Assessed by the Attachment Story Completion Task

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Several studies have indicated only a modest concordance of attachment security in siblings in infancy. Until now, very little was known about the concordance of siblings' attachment security beyond infancy, as assessed by the attachment story completion task. This cross-sectional study aims to examine the concordance of attachment representations of 38 first-born (4-7 years) and 38 second-born (3-5 years) siblings living in middle-class two-parent families. Personality factors and the level of parenting stress of the biological mothers (30-43 years) were analysed in relation to children's attachment security. The results indicate a 43 % secure-insecure concordance rate between siblings' attachment representations. Sibling's gender correspondence, age differences and differences in parenting stress were not related to attachment concordance whereas gender of the first-born child was related to attachment concordance. The results also indicate that older children more frequently had secure attachment representations compared to younger children and that attachment insecurity was associated with greater negative impacts of life events, lower maternal life satisfaction and higher parenting stress. Our study indicates that siblings' attachment representations may lack concordance even when siblings are assessed by the same method at the same time. If maternal and environmental factors are able to explain a substantial amount of variance in the attachment security of individual children, non-shared environmental factors might be underestimated when studying siblings' attachment representations. The significant effect of age on children's attachment representations found in this study suggests the need for future research on the stability of attachment representations during the preschool years. Until now, very little was known about the concordance of siblings' attachment security beyond infancy, as assessed by the Attachment Story Completion Task. This cross-sectional study aims to examine the concordance of attachment representations of 38 first-born (4-7 years) and 38 second-born (3-5 years) siblings living in middle-class two-parent families. Personality factors and the level of parenting stress of the biological mothers (30-43 years) were analysed in relation to children's attachment security. The results indicate a 43% secureinsecure concordance rate between siblings' attachment representations. Sibling's gender correspondence, age differences and differences in parenting stress were not related to attachment concordance whereas gender of the first-born child was related to attachment concordance. The results also indicate that older children more frequently had secure attachment representations compared to younger children and that attachment insecurity was associated with greater negative impacts of life events, lower maternal life satisfaction and higher parenting stress. Our study indicates that siblings' attachment representations may lack concordance even when siblings are assessed by the same m...

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Concordance of Attachment Representations in Preschool Siblings Assessed by the Attachment Story Completion Task

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“…The stories involved handling materials, and covered themes such as transgression, fear, separation from and reunion with parents, and the loss of a dog. The narratives were coded by the clinician research assistants using the Q-set procedure which was developed by Pierrehumbert (Miljkovitch, Pierrehumbert, Karmaniola, & Halfon, 2003). This resulted in continuous scores, which were obtained by comparing the children's individual Q-sort description with the criterion sort provided by experts for a prototypical child using Main and Cassidy's four patterns (secure, avoidant, ambivalent and disorganized) (Miljkovitch et al, 2003).…”

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The reciprocal relation between children’s attachment representations and their cognitive ability

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Meunier

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International Journal of Behavioral Development

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This study explores reciprocal relations between children’s attachment representations and their cognitive ability. Previous literature has mainly focused on the prediction of cognitive abilities from attachment, rarely on the reverse prediction. This was explored in the current research. Attachment representations were assessed with the Attachment Story Completion Task (Bretherton, Ridgeway, & Cassidy, 1990); the IQ was measured with the WPPSI-III (Wechsler, 2004). Data were collected twice, at a two-year interval, from about 400 preschoolers. Reasoning IQ was found to influence the development of secure attachment representations, while attachment security and disorganization influenced later verbal IQ. The implications of the findings for both clinical and research purposes are discussed in the light of the interactions between cognitive abilities and attachment representations.

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“…This percentage was very similar to that obtained by van Ijzendoorn (1995) for the link between parents' attachment representations (assessed with the AAI) and children's attachment behaviour (assessed with the SSP). Miljkovitch, Pierrehumbert, Karmaniola, and Halfon (2003) also observed significant correlations between mothers' and children's attachment representations, assessed with the AAI and the ASCT respectively. Using a coding system based on the continuous scores of the ASCT that was different to that of Gloger-Tippelt and colleagues (2002), they obtained similar results.…”

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Concordance of Attachment Representations in Mother-/Father-Child Dyads and between Siblings

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Roskam

2013

PSYCHOL BELG

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This study focuses on the concordance of attachment representations in twoparent, two-child families as an original contribution to the current attachment literature. It uses both categorical attachment patterns and continuous scores. Data was collected on 92 native French-speaking Belgian families. In order to disentangle conceptual and methodological interpretations, each hypothesis was tested in two complementary ways: first in a sample where the parent completed the Cartes pour les Modèles Internes de Relation (CaMir) and their young children (four-to seven-year-olds) the French version of the Attachment Story Completion Task (Fr-ASCT) and second, in a sample where both parents and their teenage to young-adult children (15-to 34-year-olds) completed the CaMir. Our results indicated very little if any concordance of attachment representations, either when using categorical scores or when using continuous scores. The implications of these results for both theoretical and research purposes are discussed.

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Les représentations d'attachement du jeune enfant. Développement d'un système de codage pour les histoires à compléter

Cited by 76 publications

References 18 publications

Concordance of Attachment Representations in Preschool Siblings Assessed by the Attachment Story Completion Task

Concordance of Attachment Representations in Preschool Siblings Assessed by the Attachment Story Completion Task

The reciprocal relation between children’s attachment representations and their cognitive ability

Concordance of Attachment Representations in Mother-/Father-Child Dyads and between Siblings

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