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The Intergenerational Transmission of Emotion Socialization
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Leerkes, Esther M.; Bailes, Lauren G.; Augustine, Mairin E. – Developmental Psychology, 2020
We examined the extent to which new mothers' recollections of their mothers' emotion socialization practices during childhood predict sensitive/supportive responses to their own toddlers in distressing situations both directly and indirectly via effects on mothers' social information processing about infant cry signals. Mothers' adult attachment…
Descriptors: Parent Child Relationship, Longitudinal Studies, Mothers, Socialization
Associations between First-Time Expectant Women's Representations of Attachment and Their Physiological Reactivity to Infant Cry
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Ablow, Jennifer C.; Marks, Amy K.; Shirley Feldman, S.; Huffman, Lynne C. – Child Development, 2013
Associations among 53 primiparous women's Adult Attachment Interview classifications (secure-autonomous vs. insecure-dismissing) and physiological and self-reported responses to infant crying were explored. Heart rate, skin conductance levels, and respiratory sinus arrhythmia (RSA) were recorded continuously. In response to the cry,…
Descriptors: Correlation, Pregnancy, Measures (Individuals), Security (Psychology)
Maternal Representations of Attachment during Pregnancy Predict the Organization ofInfant-Mother Attachment at One Year of Age.
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Fonagy, Peter; And Others – Child Development, 1991
The Adult Attachment Interview (AAI) was administered to 96 expecting mothers. In a one-year followup, mothers were seen with their child in the Strange Situation procedure. Maternal representations of attachment from the AAI predicted infant-mother attachment patterns in the Strange Situation. (BC)
Descriptors: Attachment Behavior, Early Experience, Foreign Countries, Infants