Maternal Sensitivity and the Security of Infant-Mother Attachment: A Q-Sort Study

Pederson, David R.; Moran, Greg; Sitko, Carolyn; Campbell, Kathy; Ghesquire, Kristen; Acton, Heather M.

doi:10.2307/1130851

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“…Matemal sensitivity, however, is not related to social class, incorne, occupational status, matemal age, or infant age (Moran et al, 1992;Pederson et al, 1990). The relation between sensitivity and educational level is unclear; it has been found to be both related (Pederson et al,1 WO), and unrelated ( Moran et al, 1992) to sensitivity.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…While these measures tend to be more consistent than behaviorai scaies, they are broad and do not provide much information about individuai differences. Use of these scales also requires the observer to have an understanding of the mother's psychologicai processes and the infant's needs, and observations must be carried out in situations in which subtle attributes can be discemed (Pederson et al, 1990).…”

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confidence: 99%

“…The overaii inter-rater reliabiiity kappas for these cases were as follows: The Maternai Behavior Q-sort (MBQ: Pederson et al, 1990) describes motherchild interaction using a set of 90 cards, which are sorted by a trained observer into nine piles of 10 cards each. These piles Vary fiom most like the mother to least like the rnother.…”

Section: Matemal Behavior During Irnmunizationmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…The MBQ was developed fiom an onguial pool of more than 150 items, which were based on theoretical and empirical descriptions of maternal sensitivity (Pederson et al, 1990). These items were narrowed, based on the opinions of faculty and graduate students with expertise in the area.…”

Section: Matemal Behavior During Irnmunizationmentioning

confidence: 99%

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“…Maternal responsiveness has proven the most robust predictor of infants' patterns of attachment (see Pederson et al, 1990 ), which in turn predict social adjustment and relationship patterns at least into adolescence (the current general age of the first participants being followed in longitudinal attachment research since infancy). Other research has shown that parents' attachment patterns vis-à-vis their own parents are highly predictive of their unborn infants' later patterns of attachment to them, documenting the impact of parental attachment style on the child's developing experience of relationships ( Fonagy, Steele, & Steele, 1991 ;H.…”

Section: The Role Of Childhood Experiencesmentioning

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The scientific legacy of Sigmund Freud: Toward a psychodynamically informed psychological science.

Westen

1998

Psychological Bulletin

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Although commentators periodically declare that Freud is dead, his repeated burials lie on shaky grounds. Critics typically attack an archaic version of psychodynamic theory that most clinicians similarly consider obsolete. Central to contemporary psychodynamic theory is a series of propositions about (a) unconscious cognitive, affective, and motivational processes; (b) ambivalence and the tendency for affective and motivational dynamics to operate in parallel and produce compromise solutions; (c) the origins of many personality and social dispositions in childhood; (d) mental representations of the self, others, and relationships; and (e) developmental dynamics. An enormous body of research in cognitive, social, developmental, and personality psychology now supports many of these propositions. Freud's scientific legacy has implications for a wide range of domains in psychology, such as integration of affective and motivational constraints into connectionist models in cognitive science.Freud, like Elvis, has been dead for a number of years but continues to be cited with some regularity. Although the majority of clinicians report that they rely to some degree upon psychodynamic 1 principles in their work ( Pope, Tabachnick, & Keith-Spiegel, 1987 ), most researchers consider psychodynamic ideas to be at worst absurd and obsolete and at best irrelevant or of little scientific interest. In the lead article of a recent edition of Psychological Science, Crews (1996) arrived at a conclusion shared by many: " [T]here is literally nothing to be said, scientifically or therapeutically, to the advantage of the entire Freudian system or any of its component dogmas" (p. 63).Despite the explosion of empirical studies of unconscious cognitive processes (see, e.g., Greenwald, 1992 ;Kihlstrom, 1987 ;Schacter, 1992 ), few reference Freud; none cite any contemporary psychodynamic work; and in general, psychodynamic concepts are decreasingly represented in the major psychology journals ( Robins & Craik, 1994 ). The situation is similar in the popular media and in broader intellectual discourse. Publications ranging from Time to the New York Review of Books periodically publish Freud's intellectual obituary, with critics charging that Freud's ideas-such as his dual-instinct theory or his hypotheses about female personality development-are seriously out of date and without scientific merit (e.g., Crews, 1993 ).Many aspects of Freudian theory are indeed out of date, and they should be: Freud died in 1939, and he has been slow to undertake further revisions. His critics, however, are equally behind the times, attacking countenance was last sighted in earnest. Contemporary psychoanalysts and psychodynamic therapists no longer write much about ids and egos, nor do they conceive of treatment for psychological disorders as an archaeological expedition in search of lost memories ( Aron, 1996 ;Gabbard, 1994 ;Horowitz, 1988 ;Kolb, Cooper, & Fishman, 1995 ;Mitchell, 1988 ;Wachtel, 1993 ). People do sometimes describe feelings or behav...

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