The relations between maternal behaviors and urban preschool children's internal working models of attachment security
✍ Scribed by Geoff Goodman; J. Lawrence Aber; Lisa Berlin; Jeanne Brooks-Gunn
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 1998
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 112 KB
- Volume
- 19
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0163-9641
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✦ Synopsis
Interviewed 93 African-American, low-income women who had become pregnant as teenagers and their preschool-aged children in their homes. Mothers answered questions regarding their everyday stresses and feelings of depression. Children were assessed for receptive vocabulary ability, then videotaped completing five stories thematically related to attachment experiences with mother and rated on their security of attachment. Mothers and children were also videotaped playing together, and mothers were assessed on their sensitivity to their children's cues. After controlling for children's age and receptive vocabulary ability, mothers' sensitivity significantly predicted children's level of attachment security. The positive association between maternal sensitivity and children's security of attachment, and the strengths and weaknesses of administering the Attachment Story-Completion Task in the home with this population, are discussed. Implications for assessing attachment in the home are considered.
RESUMEN: Noventa y tres mujeres afro-americanas de bajos recusos econo ´micos que habı ´an quedado embarazadas siendo adolescentes fueron entrevistadas en sus casas, conjuntamente con sus nin ˜os de edad preescolar. Las madres respondieron a preguntas acerca de su tensio ´n y sentimientos de depresio ´n de cada dı ´a. Los nin ˜os fueron evaluados en cuanto a su habilidad de recepcio ´n de vocabulario, y seguidamente se les grabo ´en video mientras completaban cinco historias-relacionadas tema ´ticamente-de experiencias de afectividad con sus madres, y clasificados segu ´n la seguridad de la afectividad. Las madres y los nin ˜os fueron tambie ´n grabados en video mientras jugaban juntos; las madres fueron evaluadas en cuanto a su sensibilidad hacia las sen ˜ales e indicaciones de sus nin ˜os. Despue ´s de la comprobacio ´n de la edad de los nin ˜os y su habilidad de recepcio ´n de vocabulario, la sensibilidad de las madres significati-