The Child in the Family of a Drug-Using Father: Attachment Styles and Family Characteristics

Finzi‐Dottan, Ricky; Cohen, Orna; Iwaniec, Dorota; Sapir, Yaffa; Weizman, Abraham

doi:10.1300/j160v06n01_05

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“…In addition, several studies have examined how attachment styles relate to parents’ perceptions of family functioning. For example, two studies found that parental security was associated with higher ratings of family cohesion and adaptability (Mikulincer & Florian, 1999a; Finzi-Dottan, Cohen, Iwaniec, Sapir, & Wiezman, 2006; yet see Mikulincer & Florian, 1999b, for non-significant results). In addition, Kor et al (2012) found that parents’ avoidance and anxiety were related to greater emotional distance among family members and greater family chaos (i.e., lower organization and control).…”

Section: Review and Analysis Of The Empirical Evidencementioning

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Parents’ Self-Reported Attachment Styles

Jones

Cassidy

Shaver

2014

Pers Soc Psychol Rev

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146

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For decades, attachment scholars have been investigating how parents’ adult attachment orientations relate to the ways in which they parent. Traditionally, this research has been conducted by developmental and clinical psychologists who typically employ the Adult Attachment Interview (AAI) to measure adult attachment. However, dating back to the mid-1990s, social and personality psychologists have been investigating how self-reported adult attachment styles relate to various facets of parenting. The literature on self-reported attachment and parenting has received less attention than AAI research on the same topic and, to date, there is no comprehensive review of this literature. In this article, we review over 60 studies of the links between self-reported attachment styles and parenting, integrate the findings to reach general conclusions, discuss unresolved questions, and suggest future directions. Finally, we discuss the potential benefits to the study of parenting of collaborations among researchers from the developmental and social attachment research traditions.

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Section: Review and Analysis Of The Empirical Evidencementioning

confidence: 99%

Parents’ Self-Reported Attachment Styles

Jones

Cassidy

Shaver

2014

Pers Soc Psychol Rev

207

146

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“…Although consistent research attests the prevalence of insecure attachment representations in adults with substance misuse, a specific association between drug-related disorders and a particular attachment style does not emerge ( 70 , 98 ); indeed, some works have observed a prevalence of the anxious-preoccupied attachment style ( 73 , 78 , 81 , 83 , 99 ), while others have underlined the presence of the dismissing style ( 68 , 71 , 72 , 77 , 82 , 90 , 93 ). Others suggest an association with the unresolved loss and/or trauma (U) pattern ( 73 , 92 , 100 ).…”

Section: Attachment and Parenthood At Risk: Maternal Substance Addictmentioning

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Attachment Theory and Maternal Drug Addiction: The Contribution to Parenting Interventions

Parolin

Simonelli

2016

Front. Psychiatry

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Children’s emotional and relational development can be negatively influenced by maternal substance abuse, particularly through a dysfunctional caregiving environment. Attachment Theory offers a privileged framework to analyze how drug addiction can affect the quality of adult attachment style, parenting attitudes and behaviors toward the child, and how it can have a detrimental effect on the co-construction of the attachment bond by the mother and the infant. Several studies, as a matter of fact, have identified a prevalence of insecure patterns among drug-abusing mothers and their children. Many interventions for mothers with Substance Use Disorders have focused on enhancing parental skills, but they have often overlooked the emotional and relational features of the mother–infant bond. Instead, in recent years, a number of protocols have been developed in order to strengthen the relationship between drug-abusing mothers and their children, drawing lessons from Attachment Theory. The present study reviews the literature on the adult and infant attachment style in the context of drug addiction, describing currently available treatment programs that address parenting and specifically focus on the mother–infant bond, relying on Attachment Theory.

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“…Mothers high in attachment anxiety may wish that they were more involved in their adolescents’ lives and knew more about their activities. In other words, anxious mothers’ perceptions that they lack knowledge about their adolescents’ whereabouts and activities may reflect more general feelings they have about their close relationships – feelings of not being close enough to their relationship partners and fears that partners will want distance – rather than a reflection of actual communication in the parent-adolescent relationship (see Finzi-Dottan, Cohen, Iwaniec, Sapir, & Wiezman, 2006 and Kor, Mikulincer, & Pirutinsky, 2012, for evidence that anxious parents perceive their family relationships as low in cohesion and high in emotional distance). The lack of a connection between mothers’ anxiety and adolescent-reported PK suggests that adolescents may not be systematically withholding information from their parents as a result of their mothers’ concerns about closeness, however.…”

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Parental knowledge of adolescent activities: Links with parental attachment style and adolescent substance use.

Jones¹,

Ehrlich²,

Lejuez³

et al. 2015

Journal of Family Psychology

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Parents’ knowledge of their adolescents’ whereabouts and activities is a robust predictor of adolescent risk behavior, including the use of drugs and alcohol. Surprisingly few studies have attempted to identify parental characteristics that are associated with the degree of parental knowledge. The present study is the first to examine how parental attachment style relates to mother, father, and adolescent reports of parental knowledge. Further, we used structural equation modeling to test the associations among parents’ attachment styles, reports of parental knowledge, and adolescents’ alcohol and marijuana use. Participants included 203 adolescents (mean age = 14.02, SD = .91) living in two-parent households and their parent(s). As predicted, mothers’ and fathers’ insecure attachment styles were negatively associated with self-reported and adolescent-reported parental knowledge, and all three reports of parental knowledge were negatively related to adolescent substance use. Mothers’ and fathers’ attachment styles were unrelated to adolescent substance use. However, evidence emerged for indirect effects of parental attachment style on adolescent substance use through reports of parental knowledge. Implications for prevention efforts and the importance of multiple reporters within the family are discussed.

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The Child in the Family of a Drug-Using Father: Attachment Styles and Family Characteristics

Abstract: The study examined the impact of family characteristics and parental attachment styles on the children of drug-using (DU) fathers in fifty-six families (n = 168) in Israel. Of the DU fathers, 60.7%

Cited by 9 publications

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Parents’ Self-Reported Attachment Styles

Parents’ Self-Reported Attachment Styles

Attachment Theory and Maternal Drug Addiction: The Contribution to Parenting Interventions

Parental knowledge of adolescent activities: Links with parental attachment style and adolescent substance use.

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