Not exact matches
The stability of
attachment security from infancy to adolescence to early adulthood:
General discussion
Studies in
general have not been able to find direct associations of mother - infant
attachment with child care arrangements and with mothers» social support systems [12], but in high social risk groups, lack of support correlated with higher rates of insecure
attachment relationships [24 — 26], while extensive support was found to promote
security [27, 28].
The stability of
attachment security from infancy to adolescence and early adulthood:
general discussion.
In
general, the effects of child care on children's
attachment security are not strong.10 Compared especially with the effects of maternal care, child care experience does not account for considerable variance in infant - mother
attachment.
A final reason for anticipating a link between day care and
attachment security was because
security reflected
general emotional well - being, so adverse effects of day care in infancy would manifest themselves as insecure
attachment.
The purpose of this study was to 1) compare
general affective dispositions (depression and anxiety) and negative affect during interpersonal conflict as a function of
attachment security, 2) examine appraisals as a function of
attachment style and as predictors of coping, 3) compare strategies of coping with interpersonal conflict as a function of
attachment style, and 4) investigate the roles of
attachment style, affect, and appraisals in predicting coping in the context of interpersonal conflict.
As most studies in middle childhood have used a single measure of
attachment, the exact ways in which different measures are related to each other in middle childhood is unknown, but the strong similarity in methodology and
attachment themes addressed suggests that the two methods should converge in assessing
attachment security in
general, and scripted secure base knowledge in specific.
Indeed, verbal and memory skills play an important role in the construction and reconstruction of
attachment representations (Waters et al. 1998), which is also supported by the association between
attachment security and children's intellectual functioning in
general (Jacobsen et al. 1994; Jacobsen and Hofmann 1997) and verbal ability in specific (Atkinson et al. 1999; O'Connor and McCartney 2007; Stievenart et al. 2010; Van IJzendoorn et al. 1995; Van IJzendoorn and Van Vliet - Visser 1988).
Of the various component of human parenting, maternal sensitivity has been linked to the safe haven effect and to
attachment security in
general in human infants (Leerkes, 2011).
The openness with which a child can retrieve
attachment scripts and adapt them to different contexts and people may depend on a combination of level of
security,
general developmental maturation and social experiences.