title: Associations between parental and child attachment representations.
abstract: 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.
authors.affiliation: raphaele.miljkovitch@u-paris10.fr
authors.forename: Raphaële
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Miljkovitch
authors.forename: Blaise
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Pierrehumbert
authors.forename: Inge
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Bretherton
authors.forename: Olivier
authors.initials: O
authors.lastname: Halfon
mesh_terms: 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