They showed that randomized interventions appeared effective in changing insensitive parenting (d = 0.33) and
infant attachment insecurity (d = 0.20).
Recently, 88 interventions on maternal sensitivity and infant security in 70 studies were included in a thoroughly extended and updated quantitative meta - analysis.6 This meta - analysis showed that interventions that specifically focused on promoting sensitive parental behaviour appeared to be rather effective in changing insensitive parenting as well as
infant attachment insecurity.
Not exact matches
Indeed, although they begin their article with the statement, «Frequent overnights were significantly associated with
attachment insecurity among
infants,» which is what the headlines captured world - wide, they end their article with, «The present study certainly does not resolve debates about frequent overnights and the wellbeing of very young children.»
A recent study by Tornello et al. [19] also found that
infants who spent frequent overnights away from their primary caretaker experienced greater
attachment insecurity than those who consistently stayed with their primary caregiver.
Potential explanations for the association between maternal PDS and childhood aggression include poor parenting styles (e.g., unsatisfactory breastfeeding and undesirable sleep practices) and maternal
attachment insecurity for their
infants (Field, 2010; Jones, Cassidy, & Shaver, 2015; Murray & Cooper, 1997).
(Alternating custody, e.g. week - on / week - off, was associated with disorganized
attachment in 60 percent of
infants under 18 months; older children and adults who had endured this arrangement as youngsters exhibited what the researcher described as «alarming levels of emotional
insecurity and poor ability to regulate strong emotion.»)
It has also been shown that while isolated individual risk factors may not have a significant effect on parent - child
attachment, the accumulation of adversity may result in sub-optimal relationship development and
insecurity of
infant attachment [12].
But when a mother's capacity to do so is limited by her own personality or stressful conditions then
infants with difficult temperament or problem behaviors are at risk for developing
attachment insecurity.
She has a forthcoming book in the Monographs of
Attachment and Human Development: Mother -
Infant Communication Disturbances and the Prediction of
Attachment Insecurity.
Alternating custody, e.g. week - on / week - off, was associated with disorganized
attachment in 60 percent of
infants under 18 months; older children and adults who had endured this arrangement as youngsters exhibited what the researcher described as «alarming levels of emotional
insecurity and poor ability to regulate strong emotion.»
Similarly compelling results have been obtained with maltreated
infants, where baseline rates of
insecurity were over 90 % and where post-intervention
attachment security did not differ from that of non-maltreated
infants.