Maternal caregiving and infant security in two cultures.

Posada, Germán; Jacobs, Amanda; Richmond, Melissa K.; Carbonell, Olga Alicia; Alzate, Gloria; Bustamante, Maria R.; Quiceno, Julio

doi:10.1037/0012-1649.38.1.67

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“…Children in the US sample had the lowest average scores (r = .35) and children in the Colombian sample had the highest average scores (r = .49). The security score for the Colombian sample is somewhat higher than reported previously in Colombian samples (i.e., .43 and .46 in Posada et al, 2002;Posada, Carbonell, Alzate, & Plata, 2004) and the difference between Colombian and US means was not itself significant (z = 1.2, p > .25), suggesting that the samples could be combined for our primary analyses. E. Waters (1995) also provides a Dependency Criterion sort for the AQS and we calculated this score as well.…”

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The quality of maternal secure-base scripts predicts children's secure-base behavior at home in three sociocultural groups

Vaughn

Coppola

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et al. 2007

International Journal of Behavioral Development

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The secure-base phenomenon is central to the Bowlby/Ainsworth theory of attachment and is also central to the assessment of attachment across the lifespan. The present study tested whether mothers' knowledge about the secure-base phenomenon, as assessed using a recently designed wordlist prompt measure for eliciting attachment-relevant stories, would predict their children's securebase behavior, as assessed by observers in the home and summarized with the Attachment Q-set (AQS). In each of three sociocultural groups (from Colombia, Portugal, and the US), scores characterizing the quality of maternal secure-base narratives elicited using the word-list prompt procedure were internally consistent, as indicated by tests of cross-story reliability, and they were positively and significantly associated with the child's security score from the AQS for each subsample. The correlation in the combined sample was r(129) = .33, p < .001. Subsequent analyses with the combined sample evaluated the AQS item-correlates of the secure-base script score.These analyses showed that mothers whose stories indicate that they have access to and use a positive secure-base script in their story production have children who treat them as a “secure base” at home. These results suggest that a core feature of adult attachment models, in each of the three sociocultural groups studied, is access to a secure-base script. Additional results from the study indicate that cross-language translations of the maternal narratives can receive valid, reliable scores even when evaluated by non-native speakers.

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“…Twenty-five mother-child pairs (15 male children) from a larger study (total N = 41) on parental support for secure-base relationships (Posada et al, 2002) comprised the Colombian sample. Participants from Colombia came from middle-class neighborhoods in Bogotá, Colombia.…”

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The quality of maternal secure-base scripts predicts children's secure-base behavior at home in three sociocultural groups

Vaughn

Coppola

Veríssimo

et al. 2007

International Journal of Behavioral Development

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“…The validity of this instrument has been supported in several investigations (e.g., Pederson et al, 1998;Pederson et al, 1990;Posada et al, 1999;Posada et al, 2002, Posada, Carbonell, Alzate, & Silver, 2004.…”

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“…Empirical evidence consistently reports a minor but significant relationship between the mother's sensitivity and the security level observed in the child (De Wolff & van IJzendoorn, 1997;Posada et al, 1999;Posada et al, 2002;Posada, Waters, Crowell, & Lay, 1995). Therefore, the quality of maternal care, i.e., the mother's level of sensitivity, is seen as essential for the establishment of secure attachments with the child (Bowlby, 1969(Bowlby, /1982.…”

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“…The scoring of these observations was made by pairs of evaluators following the methodology proposed by previous research (Bárrig, 2004;Nóblega, 2012;Posada et al, 2004;Posada et al, 2002;Vaughn et al, 2007). Thus, inter-observer reliability was evaluated by obtaining an average coefficient of .82 (SD = 0.09) with values ranging between .59 and .92.…”

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Attachment Representations and Maternal Sensitivity in Low Socioeconomic Status Mothers

Bárrig-Jó

Nóblega²,

Prado³

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IJPS

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According to attachment theory, mental representations are defined as dynamic cognitive guides that organize both perceptual and behavioral aspects of the self, attachment figure, and relationships with others. Based on this assumption, several studies had reported a relationship between attachment representations and the quality of care provided by mothers to their infants. This study explored on the relationship between maternal attachment representations, assessed by a narrative script task, and the quality of maternal care observed at home. Participants were 32 mothers between 19 and 44 years of age (M = 29.6, SD = 6.28) and their children between 8 and 10 months (M = 8.91, SD = 0.96). The results did not show a significant relationship between global scores of participants' observed care (i.e., maternal sensitivity) and their attachment representations. However, a specific association was found between two dimensions of sensitivity (acceptance and active/animated interactions) and the narrative script that refers to a child's physical injury event. Additionally, mothers who reported early separation experiences with their children showed a significant association between sensitivity and attachment representations on mother-child scripts. Moreover, these mothers showed lower scores on global sensitivity and on specific behavioral care dimensions, such as sensitive response and acceptance to child's signals, than those of mothers that did not report separations early in their children' lives.

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Pena-Shaff

2013

The Encyclopedia of Cross‐Cultural Psychology

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Attachment is an enduring emotional bond that develops between two people and is characterized by a tendency to seek and maintain closeness, particularly during times of stress such as when the person is frightened, tired, or sick. Although attachment is often used to describe the relationship between infants or young children and their caregivers, attachment, as Bowlby emphasized, is an essential, lifelong need. Infants, through countless interactions, develop an internal working model of attachment, a framework of thoughts, feelings, plans, and goals that help organize their interactions in relationships with others across the lifespan. This working model of attachment that develops during the early years of life has often been associated with a wide range of children's and adults' adaptive and maladaptive socioemotional functioning and patterns of future relationships with others. Thus, attachment theory is a theory of relationships.

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Maternal caregiving and infant security in two cultures.

Cited by 83 publications

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The quality of maternal secure-base scripts predicts children's secure-base behavior at home in three sociocultural groups

The quality of maternal secure-base scripts predicts children's secure-base behavior at home in three sociocultural groups

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