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Area of Science:

  • Psychology
  • Developmental Psychology
  • Attachment Theory

Background:

  • Inconsistent findings exist regarding motherhood and emotional well-being.
  • Attachment theory suggests attachment styles may impact emotional experiences.
  • Dynamic emotional experiences in mothers require advanced analytical methods.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate how attachment anxiety and avoidance predict fluctuations in mothers' positive emotion.
  • To examine the relationship between maternal emotional experiences and closeness/perceived child emotion.
  • To evaluate attachment-based differences in mothers' emotional equilibrium, volatility, inertia, and emotion processes.

Main Methods:

  • 144 mothers of young children participated.
  • Data collected up to 5 times daily for 10 days on positive emotion, closeness, and perceived child emotion.
  • Dynamic structural equation modeling (DSEM) was used for analysis.

Main Results:

  • Attachment anxiety correlated with lower average positive emotion and greater volatility in emotion and closeness.
  • Attachment avoidance linked to higher emotional distance, stronger positive emotion inertia, and weaker emotional distance inertia.
  • For mothers high in attachment avoidance, emotional distance predicted subsequent positive emotion and perceived child positive emotion.

Conclusions:

  • Findings support attachment theory in understanding maternal emotional dynamics.
  • Results highlight the role of attachment anxiety and avoidance in mothers' emotional well-being.
  • Implications for developing attachment-informed parenting interventions are discussed.