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Raphaële Miljkovitch1, Blaise Pierrehumbert, Inge Bretherton

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Attachment & Human Development
|October 30, 2004
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Maternal attachment representations predict child

Area of Science:

  • Developmental Psychology
  • Attachment Theory
  • Child Psychology

Background:

  • Intergenerational transmission of attachment is crucial for child development.
  • Parental attachment representations influence children's emotional and social outcomes.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To examine the association between parental (mother and father) attachment representations and their 3-year-old children's attachment patterns.
  • To introduce and validate a Q-sort coding procedure for the Attachment Story Completion Task (ASCT) in young children.

Main Methods:

  • Adult Attachment Interview (AAI) classifications for mothers and fathers.
  • Attachment Story Completion Task (ASCT) with a novel Q-sort coding procedure for 3-year-olds.
  • One-way ANOVAs to analyze parent-child attachment associations.

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Main Results:

  • Significant mother-child associations were found across all four attachment dimensions (security, deactivation, hyperactivation, disorganization).
  • Mother-child associations for hyperactivation and disorganization were significant via contrast tests.
  • No significant father-child attachment associations were detected.

Conclusions:

  • Maternal attachment representations are significantly linked to children's attachment patterns at age three.
  • Paternal attachment representations did not show a significant association with child attachment in this study.
  • Findings highlight the distinct roles mothers and fathers may play in the intergenerational transmission of attachment.