Emotional availability and attachment across generations: Variations in patterns associated with infant health risk status

Child: Care, Health and Development

Volumn 38, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 538-544

  Cassibba, R ^a   van Ijzendoorn, M H ^c   Coppola, G ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BARI   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHIETI   (Italy)

^c LEIDEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Attachment; Emotional availability; Infant health risk status

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATOPIC DERMATITIS; CASE CONTROL STUDY; CHRONIC DISEASE; EMOTION; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFANT; INFANT WELFARE; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; LOW BIRTH WEIGHT; MALE; MOTHER CHILD RELATION; NEWBORN; OBJECT RELATION; PREMATURITY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; PSYCHOMETRY;

ADULT; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CHRONIC DISEASE; COMMUNICATION; DERMATITIS, ATOPIC; EMOTIONS; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT WELFARE; INFANT, LOW BIRTH WEIGHT; INFANT, NEWBORN; INFANT, PREMATURE; MALE; MOTHER-CHILD RELATIONS; OBJECT ATTACHMENT; PSYCHOMETRICS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84861881723     PISSN: 03051862     EISSN: 13652214     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2214.2011.01274.x     Document Type: Article

References (15)

1. Ainsworth, M. D. S., Blehar, M. C., Waters, E. & Wall, S. (1978) Patterns of Attachment: A Psychological Study of the Strange Situation. Erlbaum, Hillsdale, NJ, USA.
2. Baron, R. M. & Kenny, D. A. (1986) The moderator-mediator variable distinction in social psychological research: conceptual, strategic, and statistical considerations. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 51, 1173-1182.
3. Biringen, Z., Brown, D., Donaldson, L., Green, S., Krcmarik, S. & Lovas, G. (2000) Adult attachment interview: linkages with dimensions of emotional availability for mothers and their pre-kindergarteners. Attachment & Human Development, 2, 188-202.
4. Bowlby, J. (1969) Attachment and Loss: Vol. 1. Attachment. Basic Books, New York, NY, USA.
5. De Wolff, M. S. & van IJzendoorn, M. H. (1997) Sensitivity and attachment: a meta-analysis on parental antecedents of infant attachment. Child Development, 68, 571-591.
6. Field, T. (2003) Touch. The MIT Press, Cambridge, MA, USA; London, UK.
7. van IJzendoorn, M. H. (1995) Adult attachment representations, parental responsiveness, and infant attachment: a meta-analysis on the predictive validity of the Adult Attachment Interview. Psychological Bulletin, 117, 387-403.
8. van IJzendoorn, M. H. & Kroonenberg, P. M. (1990) Cross-cultural consistency of coding the strange situation. Infant Behavior & Development, 13, 469-485.
9. van IJzendoorn, M. H., Goldberg, S., Kroonenberg, P. M. & Frenkel, O. J. (1992) The relative effects of maternal and child problems on the quality of attachment: a meta-analysis on the quality of attachment in clinical samples. Child Development, 63, 840-858.
10. van IJzendoorn, M. H., Rutgers, A. H., Bakermans-Kranenburg, M. J., Svinkels, S. H. N., van Dealen, E., Dietz, C., Naber, F. B. A., Buitelaar, J. K. & van Engeland, H. (2007) Parental sensitivity and attachment in children with autism spectrum disorder: comparison with children with mental retardation, with language delays, and with typical development. Child Development, 78, 597-608.
11. Main, M., Kaplan, N. & Cassidy, J. (1985) Security in infancy, childhood, and adulthood: a move to the level of representation. In: Growing Points of Attachment Theory and Research. Monographs of the Society for Research in Child Development, Vol. 50 (1-2, Serial No. 209) (eds I. Bretherton & E. Waters ), pp. 66-104. Blackwell Publishing, Boston, MA, USA.
12. National Health and Medical Research Council (2000) Clinical Practice Guidelines. Care around preterm birth. Commonwealth of Australia.
13. Waters, E., Treboux, D. & Crowell, C. F. J. (2011) Scoring Secure Base Instrument. Department of Psychology, State University of New York, Stony Brook, NY, USA (in press).
14. Williams, H. C., Burney, P. G. J. & Hay, R. J. (1994) The UK working party's diagnostic criteria for atopic dermatitis. Derivation of a minimum set of discriminators for atopic dermatitis. The British Journal of Dermatology, 131, 834-839.
15. Ziv, Y., Aviezer, O., Gini, M., Sagi, A. & Koren-Karie, N. (2000) Emotional availability in the mother-infant dyads as related to the quality of infant-mother attachment relationship. Attachment & Human Development, 2, 149-169.