Sentences with phrase «avoidant infants»

This notion is strengthened by reports of increased cardiac reactivity in avoidant infants in the strange situation paradigm: Sroufe and Waters [121] showed in an early study accelerated heart rate in both dismissing and preoccupied children, while only dismissing attached children minimized the display of emotion.

Insecure - avoidant infants are associated with unresponsive primary care.

Avoidant infants focus their attention mainly on toys that are found around the research room, not directly on the mother.

Avoidant infants seem to have no attachment to their parents.

• Fathers have unusually high amounts of interaction with insecure - avoidant infant girls — the group with whom mothers interact least of all (Fagot & Kavenagh, 1993).

• Fathers have been found to have unusually high amounts of interaction with insecure - avoidant infant girls — the group with whom mothers interact least of all (Fagot & Kavenagh, 1993).

The avoidant infant appears uninterested in exploring when alone with the mother.

Insecure - avoidant infant - caregiver attachment presumably results from the caregiver consistently responding to the child's distress in ways that are rejecting.

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The avoidant type is when the infant tends to pull away from their mother or ignore her.

The secure attachment denoted that the infant sought and received protection, the avoidant attachment denoted that the infant pulled away from the mother, and the resistant attachment denoted that the infant always stayed close to their mother.

There have been, over the years, four different types of attachment patterns that we can see between infant and parent: secure, avoidant, anxious, and disorganized [2][3].

In her series of «strange situation» experiments starting in 1969, Dr. Mary Ainsworth expanded attachment theory by identifying three separate categories of bonding that occur between infants and their primary caregiver: secure, anxious / ambivalent, or anxious / avoidant (Ainsworth, 1985).

The estimated relative risk for disorganised attachment among children carrying the 7 - repeat allele was four-fold, with the frequency of the 7 - repeat allele being 67 % in disorganised infants as opposed to 20 % in securely attached infants [95], and with 50 % frequencies in the insecure - avoidant and resistant groups.

The avoidant pattern could be related to rejecting, dismissing or neglecting responses to infants» signals, especially to those signals expressing negative emotions, while in the background of the resistant pattern, unreliable, inconsistent care was identified.

In high social risk groups exposed to severe deprivation and maltreatment [8] or among infants of adolescent mothers [9] frequencies can be dramatically different with 0 - 30 % secure, 20 - 50 % avoidant and resistant, and as many as 50 - 80 % disorganized infants [8, 10].

Trzop comments about the omission of a reference to the avoidant or ambivalent infant.

With regards to parental modelling, there have been a number of studies demonstrating that parent anxiety can be transmitted through modelling and verbal transmission of threat and avoidant information.17, 18 In one experimental study, young infants showed increased fearfulness and avoidance of a stranger following exposure to a socially - anxious mother - stranger interaction.19 In this study, the effect was stronger for children with an inhibited temperament.

The secure attachment denoted that the infant sought and received protection, the avoidant attachment denoted that the infant pulled away from the mother, and the resistant attachment denoted that the infant always stayed close to their mother.

Contrary to meta - analytic findings of the earlier literature that focused only on the effects of the amount of care provided without adequately controlling for selection effects, the NICHD Study found that a number of features of child care (the amount of child care, age of entry into care, and the quality and stability of child care) were unrelated to the security of infant — mother attachments or to an increased likelihood of avoidant attachments, except when mothers provided less sensitive parenting of their infant.11 For the children who received less sensitive maternal care, extended experience with child care, lower - quality child care, and more changes in child care arrangements were each associated with an increased likelihood of developing an insecure attachment with their mothers.

At the beginning of her paper, she notices that of the four patterns of infant attachment (secure, avoidant, resistant, disorganized), the disorganized classification has been identified as a powerful childhood risk for later psychopathology.

For comparative purposes, I could have included a description of an «avoidant» infant to serve as an example of an individual who rejects the closeness of others in intimate relationships as a result of an unresponsive caregiver.

An insecure infant, on the other hand, is fearful or avoidant of exploration because of the belief that the caregiver will not be there when needed.

The exception to the pattern was China which an equal number of avoidant and resistant infants.

3) Insecure - avoidant: these infants show little distress when separated, ignore their mother's attempts to interact, are often sociable with strangers or may ignore them as they ignore their mother.

Based on earlier work on infant - parent attachment, we've learned that marriage is also an attachment relationship — a place where we can feel secure but also a place where we can feel anxious or avoidant.

These various contradictory and un-integrated behaviours are thought to indicate the infant's inability to organize a coherent strategy for eliciting comfort from the caregiver and are differentially associated with increased release of stress hormones.1, 2 Disorganized attachment behaviours may occur in combination with other insecure behaviours that are part of an avoidant or ambivalent attachment strategy.

Just as important was evidence that infants with extensive day care experience (a) were not less stressed in the SSP than other infants (see also19) and that (b) putatively independent behavior was not misconstrued as avoidant behavior.14

Infants who do not seem to be distressed and ignore or avoid the caregiver after being reunited (although physiological research shows their arousal) 3 are classified as insecure - avoidant (A).

An overview of all American studies with non-clinical samples (21 samples with a total of 1,584 infants, conducted between 1977 and 1990) shows that about 67 % of the infants were classified as secure, 21 % as insecure - avoidant and 12 % as insecure - ambivalent.5 A central issue in attachment theory and research is what causes some infants to develop an insecure attachment relationship while other infants feel secure.

Finally, although Stein and colleagues made no formal assessment of attachment, they did make observations of the infant's reaction to being separated from the mother when in the presence of a stranger: distress was evidenced by significantly fewer of the children of the mothers who had had a postnatal depression, possibly indicative of a higher rate of avoidant attachments.4

Finally, we found significant concordance between the diary and Strange Situation scales for secure and avoidant behaviors.This research is part of an ongoing study of infants in foster care conducted at the University of Delaware in collaboration with the Baltimore City Department of Social Services and Delaware Department of Family Services.

The results indicated infants with autonomous foster parents and infants placed at younger ages showed higher early and overall levels of secure behavior, less avoidant behavior, and more coherent attachment strategies compared to infants placed with nonautonomous foster parents.

Infant response in the still - face paradigm at 6 months predicts avoidant and secure attachment at 12 months

Infants who focus almost exclusively on the toys, actively avoiding and ignoritíg the parent on reunion, are termed insecure - avoidant, a response linked to the mother's consistent rejection of infant attachment behavior.