Young Adolescent’s Confidence in Maternal Support: Attentional Bias Moderates the Link Between Attachment-Related Expectations and Behavioral Problems

Bosmans, Guy; Koster, Ernst H. W.; Vandevivere, Eva; Braet, Caroline; Raedt, Rudi De

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“…This article has taken a first step toward developing such a framework by applying dual process theory to attachment measures. Although some preliminary studies show that combining measures of strategic and automatic processes provide a more subtle and improved understanding of attachment‐related outcomes (Bosmans, Koster, Vandevivere, Braet, & De Raedt, ), more research is now needed to investigate this framework.…”

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Attachment in Middle Childhood: Progress and Prospects

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2015

New Directions for Child and Adolescent Development

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Contrary to the substantial amount of research on infant, preschool, adolescent, and adult attachment, middle childhood has long been neglected by the international attachment research community. In the past two decades, however, there has been a steep increase in research focusing on middle childhood attachment. This article provides an overview of past research, with a focus on the characteristics of secure versus insecure attachment at this age period, and an understanding of the different approaches to measure attachment. The article demonstrates the relevance of past middle childhood attachment research for both developmental psychologists and clinicians trying to understand the importance of middle childhood in individuals' development across the life span.

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Attachment in Middle Childhood: Progress and Prospects

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“…For example, it was repeatedly demonstrated that a more narrow attentional field around the mother can be found in children with high as well as low levels of trust in maternal support and that these levels predicted the nature of its effect Claes et al, 2016). More specifically, only when individuals had a more narrow attentional field around the mother, trust in maternal support predicted the prevalence of emotional and behavioral problems in middle childhood (replicated in two samples in Bosmans et al, 2013), and nonsuicidal self-injury in young adults (Claes et al, 2016). So, children with a more narrow attentional field and at the same time less trust in maternal support had more emotional and behavioral problems whereas children with a more narrow attentional field and at the same more trust in maternal support had less emotional and behavioral problems.…”

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“…So, children with a more narrow attentional field and at the same time less trust in maternal support had more emotional and behavioral problems whereas children with a more narrow attentional field and at the same more trust in maternal support had less emotional and behavioral problems. Bosmans et al (2013) explained the finding as follows:…”

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Repetitive thinking about the mother during distress moderates the link between children's attentional breadth around the mother and depressive symptoms in middle childhood

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Behaviour Research and Therapy

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“…In older children, one could predict that children with more trust are less focused on their mother. Thus far, no age‐effects have been found on the attentional breadth‐trust association (Bosmans, Braet, et al, ; Bosmans et al, ). However, this could have been due to a less optimal design of the original ABT.…”

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Children's attentional breadth around their mother: Comparing stimulus‐driven vs. cognitively controlled processes

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Attentional processes in children are tuned toward their mother. It is unclear whether this is a cognitively controlled or more automatic, stimulus-driven process. Therefore, 172 children (age 9-13) were assigned to either a cognitively controlled or a stimulus-driven task measuring the breadth of their attentional field around their mother.Results demonstrated a narrower field around the mother for children completing the more stimulus-driven task. Moreover, only for the stimulus-driven task, this effect was linked with the interaction between children's age and self-reported trust in maternal support.More trust was linked with a narrower attentional field around the mother in younger children, but with a less narrow field in older children. This resembles the expected age-related shift toward increased autonomy and points at stimulus-driven attentional processes.attachment, attentional bias, attentional breadth, middle childhood, mother-child relationship, trust | I NTR OD U CTI ONAccording to attachment theory, primary caregivers like mothers are crucial for children's development because young children need their mother to ensure survival (Bowlby, 1969). Bowlby (1969) proposed that care-related experiences with the mother are stored as an internal representation or internal working model. When infants repeatedly experience sensitive maternal responses to distress, they develop secure attachment representations, which means that they will trust that they can rely on the mother as a secure base from which to solicit support (Bowlby, 1969;Waters & Waters, 2006). Instead, in the context of absent or inconsistent maternal responses to distress, children develop insecure attachment representations and less trust. These internal working models determine how future information regarding caregivers will be cognitively processed (i.e., attention, memory, and interpretation), affecting perceived social Social Development. 2018;27:95-108.wileyonlinelibrary.com/journal/sode

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Young Adolescent’s Confidence in Maternal Support: Attentional Bias Moderates the Link Between Attachment-Related Expectations and Behavioral Problems

Cited by 19 publications

References 45 publications

Attachment in Middle Childhood: Progress and Prospects

Attachment in Middle Childhood: Progress and Prospects

Repetitive thinking about the mother during distress moderates the link between children's attentional breadth around the mother and depressive symptoms in middle childhood

Children's attentional breadth around their mother: Comparing stimulus‐driven vs. cognitively controlled processes

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