Associations between parental and child attachment representations.
In the present article on intergenerational transmission of attachment representations, we use mothers' and fathers' Adult Attachment Interview classifications to predict a 3-year-old's responses to the Attachment Story Completion Task (ASCT). We present a Q-sort coding procedure for the ASCT, which was developed for children as young as three. The Q-sort yields scores on four attachment dimensions (security, deactivation, hyperactivation, and disorganization). One-way ANOVAs revealed significant mother-child associations for each dimension, although results for the hyperactivation and disorganization dimensions were significant only according to contrast tests. Conversely, no father-child association was found, regardless of the dimension considered. Findings are discussed in terms of the respective part played by each parent in their children's emotional development.
Miljkovitch
Raphaële
R
raphaele.miljkovitch@u-paris10.fr
Pierrehumbert
Blaise
B
Bretherton
Inge
I
Halfon
Olivier
O
D000328:Adult; D002675:Child, Preschool; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D009769:Object Attachment; D010287:Parent-Child Relations; D019962:Reactive Attachment Disorder / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000523:psychology; D015203:Reproducibility of Results; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires