Study goals included increasing attachment security in economically stressed families and examining
maternal attachment styles in positive and negative environments.
When separate analyses were conducted with
maternal attachment styles, there were significant three - way interactions among treatment, irritability, and each of the examined maternal attachment style dimensions.
There is evidence that
maternal attachment style may influence their response to their children's (17, 18) or adolescents» (15) negative emotions.
This is the first study to explore the correlation between
maternal attachment style, alexithymia, and children / adolescents» psychological symptoms (anxiety, depression, and somatization) in a group of patients suffering from migraine.
To the best of our knowledge, no study focused on
maternal attachment style in migrainous children.
It is difficult to explain the reasons why in our sample only maternal alexithymia levels, but not
maternal attachment style, show a relationship with their children's attachment style.
Maternal attachment style and responses to adolescents» negative emotions: the mediating role of maternal emotion regulation.
Not exact matches
As adopters we understand that an insecure
attachment history is where children's experiences in their birth families mean they are unable to develop secure
attachments with their prime carers for various reasons such as the carers» own insecure
attachment styles or mental or physical health difficulties, drug or alcohol abuse; loss; trauma; neglect; abuse;
maternal deprivation; separations; domestic abuse etc..
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).
Once the phenomenon had been thoroughly tested and replicated, it became a standard method for testing hypotheses about person perception, communication differences as a result of gender or cultural differences, individual differences in
attachment style, and the effects of
maternal depression on infants.
Interestingly, Gratz et al14 reported that although there was no direct relationship between
maternal BPD symptoms and infant emotion regulation in their sample, there was an indirect relationship, which was mediated by
maternal emotional dysfunction, and that this was particularly the case for the large proportion of children in their sample who were classified as having an insecure - resistant
attachment style.
AAI, Adult
Attachment Interview; AFFEX, System for Identifying Affect Expression by Holistic Judgement; AIM, Affect Intensity Measure; AMBIANCE, Atypical
Maternal Behaviour Instrument for Assessment and Classification; ASCT,
Attachment Story Completion Task; BAI, Beck Anxiety Inventory; BDI, Beck Depression Inventory; BEST, Borderline Evaluation of Severity over Time; BPD, borderline personality disorder; BPVS - II, British Picture Vocabulary Scale II; CASQ, Children's Attributional
Style Questionnaire; CBCL, Child Behaviour Checklist; CDAS - R, Children's Dysfunctional Attitudes Scale - Revised; CDEQ, Children's Depressive Experiences Questionnaire; CDIB, Child Diagnostic Interview for Borderlines; CGAS, Child Global Assessment Schedule; CRSQ, Children's Response
Style Questionnaire; CTQ, Childhood Trauma Questionnaire; CTQ, Childhood Trauma Questionnaire; DASS, Depression, Anxiety, Stress Scales; DERS, Difficulties in Emotion Regulation Scale; DIB - R, Revised Diagnostic Interview for Borderlines; DSM, Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders; EA, Emotional Availability Scales; ECRS, Experiences in Close Relationships Scale; EMBU, Swedish acronym for Own Memories Concerning Upbringing; EPDS, Edinburgh Postnatal Depression Scale; FES, Family Environment Scale; FSS, Family Satisfaction Scale; FTRI, Family Trauma and Resilience Interview; IBQ - R, Infant Behaviour Questionnaire, Revised; IPPA, Inventory of Parent and Peer
Attachment; K - SADS, Kiddie Schedule for Affective Disorders and Schizophrenia for School - Age Children; KSADS - E, Kiddie Schedule for Affective Disorders and Schizophrenia - Episodic Version; MMD, major depressive disorder; PACOTIS, Parental Cognitions and Conduct Toward the Infant Scale; PPQ, Perceived Parenting Quality Questionnaire; PD, personality disorder; PPVT - III, Peabody Picture Vocabulary Test, Third Edition; PSI - SF, Parenting Stress Index Short Form; RSSC, Reassurance - Seeking Scale for Children; SCID - II, Structured Clinical Interview for DSM - IV; SCL -90-R, Symptom Checklist 90 Revised; SCQ, Social Communication Questionnaire; SEQ, Children's Self - Esteem Questionnaire; SIDP - IV, Structured Interview for DSM - IV Personality; SPPA, Self - Perception Profile for Adolescents; SSAGA, Semi-Structured Assessment for the Genetics of Alcoholism; TCI, Temperament and Character Inventory; YCS, Youth Chronic Stress Interview; YSR, Youth Self - Report.
An increased risk of physical and emotional / behavioural problems has consistently been observed in the offspring of mothers suffering from depression in the perinatal period.9, 10 Probably, complex interactions between several pathways may explain this phenomenon, including biological mechanisms (eg, fetal exposure to
maternal stress hormones), behavioural and emotional features (eg, poorer prenatal care and
attachment style of depressed mothers) and genetic predisposition transmitted to the offspring.10 In addition to depression during pregnancy and postpartum, exposure to ADs is another major concern.
Ainsworth's
maternal sensitivity hypothesis argues that a child's
attachment style is dependent on the behavior their mother shows towards them.
Recognizing the potentially beneficial effects of mindfulness training on healthy
attachment, this article reviews relevant literature in presenting a case for exploratory and empirical research into the dynamic relationship between mindfulness,
attachment style,
maternal health, and children's development.
Affective and Behavioral Features of Jealousy Protest: Associations with Child Temperament,
Maternal Interaction
Style, and
Attachment.
Predicting social adjustment in middle childhood: the role of preschool
attachment security and
maternal style
However, we found that
maternal alexithymia is associated with patients»
attachment style and psychological symptoms (anxiety and feeling of guilt).
-- To evaluate
maternal attachment, we employed the ASQ (Attachment Style Questionnaire
attachment, we employed the ASQ (
Attachment Style Questionnaire
Attachment Style Questionnaire)(44, 45).
Licata M, Zietlow AL, Träuble B, Sodian B, Reck C.
Maternal emotional availability and its association with maternal psychopathology, attachment style insecurity and theory
Maternal emotional availability and its association with
maternal psychopathology, attachment style insecurity and theory
maternal psychopathology,
attachment style insecurity and theory of mind.
Taubman - Ben - Ari & Katz - Ben - Ami [42] discovered that, in an Israeli sample, priming mortality salience induced higher
maternal separation anxiety compared with a control group, but contrary to predictions this did not interact with
attachment style.
Conclusion:
Maternal alexithymia and
attachment style have no impact on children's migraine severity.
In the present study, neither
maternal alexithymia levels nor the
attachment style show a relationship with patients» migraine severity (intensity and frequency).
Death awareness,
maternal separation anxiety, and
attachment style among first - time mothers — a terror management perspective
Moreover, to explore differences in
maternal alexithymia and
attachment as function of children / adolescents»
attachment style (secure, ambivalent, avoiding, and disorganized / confused) a series of one - way ANOVAs was carried out.
This is the first study which examines the role of
maternal alexithymia and
attachment style on their children's migraine severity and psychological profile.
Thus, we could speculate that children / adolescents»
attachment style has a mediating role between
maternal alexithymia traits and migraine features.
However, our results suggest that, although
maternal alexithymic traits have no causative roles on children's migraine severity, they show a relationship with patients»
attachment style and psychological symptoms, which in turn may impact on migraine severity.
Our results suggest that even if
maternal emotional awareness and interpersonal relations have no causative role on children's migraine severity, it may influence children's
attachment style and their affective regulation.
(1) Our data are derived from children / adolescents (and mothers) referred to our tertiary Headache Center and may not be representative of the whole pediatric population suffering from migraine without aura; (2) The psychological tools employed in our study (TAS - 20, ASQ, SAFA - A, D, and S) have a self - report nature; although, they have been considered valid for psychological screening, they are not suitable for a formal diagnosis of psychiatric disorder; moreover, ASQ, as a self - report questionnaire, may not be able to elicit stress and danger situations, which are indispensable to activate the
attachment system; (3) In future studies, it would be important to further explore not only the role of
maternal attachment and alexithymia but also the role of
maternal migraine features on their children's migraine severity,
attachment style, and psychological profile.
Given the high risk among young migraineurs of developing an insecure
attachment style and anxiety symptoms, which are known to impact on children / adolescents migraine severity (14), special attention should be paid to
maternal alexithymic traits and mother — child interaction.
Maternal attachment influences mother — infant
styles of regulation and play with objects at nine months.
Young adult's
attachment style as a partial mediator between
maternal functioning and young adult offsprings» functioning.