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Parents' attachment styles, mental representations, and institutionalization of children in Bulgaria

✍ Scribed by Galina Markova; Robert Shilkret; Liubomir Djalev

Book ID
102279587
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons
Year
2008
Tongue
English
Weight
167 KB
Volume
29
Category
Article
ISSN
0163-9641

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✦ Synopsis

Abstract

We first summarize the history, extent, and characteristics of institutionalization of non‐orphan children in Bulgaria. Then we describe a study of certain psychological characteristics of mothers who use institutionalization compared with mothers similar in ethnicity and close‐to‐poverty circumstances, those using state daycare programs, and those using weekly care programs for their children. Institutionalizing mothers had been institutionalized themselves far more often than had the other mothers. On two attachment measures, as expected, institutionalizing mothers were less secure and more insecure than daycare mothers, with weekly care mothers intermediate. On a parental representation task, results were somewhat more equivocal. Results suggest that psychological characteristics, especially attachment style, are important in decisions to use institutionalization as a means of child care.

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