Precursors of relatedness and self-definition in mother-infant interaction.

Feldman, Ruth

doi:10.1037/10219-001

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“…In normal personality development, these two developmental processes evolve in an interactive, reciprocally balanced, mutually facilitating fashion from birth through senescence. Feldman and Blatt (1996) investigated some of the early antecedents of the development of relatedness and self-definition in infant-mother interactions, but further longitudinal research should be directed to studying infants and children who eventually develop extreme anxious and avoidant insecure attachment patterns. Attachment research indicates that secure attachment involves both a capacity to establish affective bonds and to tolerate and benefit from separation.…”

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Attachment Theory, Psychoanalysis, Personality Development, and Psychopathology

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2003

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“…Recent research (e.g., Beebe et al, 2007;Feldman & Blatt, 1996) demonstrates that a balance of attachment and separation in mother-infant interaction is an antecedent of the coordinated early development of relatedness and of selfdefinition. These findings are consistent with findings in attachment research that a secure attachment pattern in the second year of life evolves from the capacity to establish affective bonds and to tolerate and benefit from separation Sibley, 2006).…”

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A structural–developmental psychodynamic approach to psychopathology: Two polarities of experience across the life span

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Consistent with principles of developmental psychopathology, this paper presents a broad psychodynamic structural developmental perspective that establishes conceptual continuities between processes of normal personality development, personality organization, concepts of psychopathology, and processes of therapeutic change. The major assumption of this approach is that personality development proceeds in a dialectic synergistic interaction between the development of capacities for interpersonal relatedness and the development of self-definition or identity. Extensive research demonstrates that these two dimensions define two broad types of personality organization, each with a particular experiential mode; preferred forms of cognition, defense, and adaptation; unique qualities of interpersonal relatedness and specific types of object and self-representation. Severe disruptions of this normal dialectic developmental process result in various forms of psychopathology organized in two basic configurations in which there is distorted defensive preoccupation, at different developmental levels, with one of these polarities (relatedness or self-definition) at the expense of the development of the other dimension. This paper reviews empirical findings supporting this approach to normal and disrupted personality development throughout the life cycle and considers its relationship to the internalizing-externalizing distinction in childhood and adolescence, attachment theory, and research on the interaction between biological and psychosocial factors in development across the life span. Finally, we discuss the implications of this approach for intervention and prevention.

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“…Social engagement develops on the basis of both infant biological dispositions (Porges, 2003) and the parental facilitation of the infant's active involvement (Bakeman & Brown, 1980;Feldman, Greenbaum, Mayes, & Erlich, 1997), and has shown to predict cognitive and social-emotional outcomes in the toddler years (Feldman & Blatt, 1996;Mundy & Acra, 2006). Considering the path from middle childhood to adult life, the social status of boys in the peer group at 9 years was found to predict social adjustment in young adulthood (Nelson & Dishion, 2004), underscoring the child's social skills as a marker of long-term adaptation.…”

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The relational basis of adolescent adjustment: trajectories of mother–child interactive behaviors from infancy to adolescence shape adolescents' adaptation

Feldman

2010

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Theories of social-emotional growth propose that repeatedly-experienced parent-infant interactions shape the individual's adaptation across development, yet few studies examined interactive behaviors repeatedly from infancy to adolescence. This study assessed the trajectories of four mother-child relational behaviors at six time-points from 3 months to 13 years: maternal sensitivity, child social engagement, mother intrusiveness, and dyadic reciprocity. Trajectories were examined separately for infants who later exhibited higher and lower psychological adaptation in adolescence. Overall, relational behaviors changed substantially with age in non-linear ways and changes in the four patterns were inter-related. Differences between the high- and low-adaptation groups were observed for maternal sensitivity and intrusiveness already in infancy and differences on all factors emerged at the transition to adolescence. Maternal sensitivity, mother intrusiveness, and dyadic reciprocity were individually stable from infancy to adolescence. Maternal psychological distress, infant difficult temperament, and dyadic reciprocity predicted adolescent adaptation. Results point to the long-term effects of risk and resilience components in the mother-infant relationship and underscore continuity in social development from infancy.

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Precursors of relatedness and self-definition in mother-infant interaction.

Cited by 12 publications

References 63 publications

Attachment Theory, Psychoanalysis, Personality Development, and Psychopathology

Attachment Theory, Psychoanalysis, Personality Development, and Psychopathology

A structural–developmental psychodynamic approach to psychopathology: Two polarities of experience across the life span

The relational basis of adolescent adjustment: trajectories of mother–child interactive behaviors from infancy to adolescence shape adolescents' adaptation

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