Maternal insensitivity and emotional
unavailability influences the infant's ability to develop a capacity for arousal regulation.25 Insensitive maternal behaviour results in increased anger, distress and crying — together, these might reflect an infant's poor arousal regulation.26 PPD also alters the capacity to regulate the reciprocal interaction between mothers and their infant via two patterns: intrusiveness and withdrawal.
Recent findings that father
unavailability may impact on the child's attachment security through
influences on the mother's ability to provide sensitive caregiving to the child (Booth - LaForce et al. 2014) point to
influences also in the opposite direction.The convergence of scripted knowledge of attachment security found is consistent with other studies assessing attachment through story completion tasks concurrently (Bretherton et al. 1990; Cassidy 1988; Psouni and Apetroaia 2014) and over time (Ammaniti et al. 2005; König et al. 2007).