Attachment security, verbal ability, and inhibitory control in middle childhood [PDF]
BMC Psychology, 2021 Background The relationship between parent–child attachment and executive function (EF) in middle childhood remains relatively poorly studied. Very little is known about the role that the child’s verbal ability might play in these relationships ...
Anna Kamza, Adam Putko
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Oxytocin enhances the experience of attachment security [PDF]
Psychoneuroendocrinology, 2009 Repeated interactions between infant and caregiver result in either secure or insecure relationship attachment patterns, and insecure attachment may affect individual emotion-regulation and health. Given that oxytocin enhances social approach behavior in animals and humans, we hypothesized that oxytocin might also promote the subjective experience of ...
Anna Buchheim +2 more
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Infant-mother attachment security and cortisol reactivity during the strange situation procedure: Longitudinal associations with maternal depressive symptoms and infant temperament [PDF]
Neurobiology of StressThis study examined the influence of infant-mother attachment security on the regulation of the hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal (HPA) axis and cortisol stress responses in 14-month-old infants.
Lauren R. Bader +9 more
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Fostering Attachment Security: The Role of Interdependent Situations. [PDF]
Int J Environ Res Public Health, 2020 This work adopts an Interdependence Theory framework to investigate how the features of interdependent situations that couples face in their daily life (i.e., situations in which partners influence each other’s outcomes) shape attachment security toward their current partners.
Righetti F +8 more
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Trust-Based Relational Intervention® (TBRI®) Impact for Traumatized Children—Meaningful Change on Attachment Security and Mental Health after One Year [PDF]
ChildrenChildren from vulnerable backgrounds often have insecure attachment or disorganized attachment, which are related to psychological troubles, and such children need interventions to help them heal.
Monika Misevičė +3 more
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Refuge, 2023 We examined post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and depressive symptoms in refugee mothers and the relationships between maternal trauma, child attachment security, and child internalizing and externalizing behaviours.
Jennifer Barnes, Jennifer Theule
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Boosting attachment security promotes giving behaviour in higher attachment anxiety
Australian Journal of Psychology, 2021 Objective The sense of attachment security is believed to be positively associated with altruistic behaviour. Based on this notion, this study investigated whether boosting attachment security increases people’s giving behaviour and examined the ...
Yuanxiao Ma +3 more
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The association between state attachment security and state Mindfulness. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2015 Recent research suggests that attachment and mindfulness are related, though the nature of this association is unclear. Here we present two studies examining whether there is a causal relationship between state attachment and state mindfulness.
Christopher A Pepping +2 more
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Ability Emotional Intelligence, Attachment Models, and Reflective Functioning
Frontiers in Psychology, 2022 Previous studies have reported a significant positive association between ability emotional intelligence (EI) and attachment security. However, these studies may, to some extent, be misleading because they relied on self-report measures of attachment ...
Anna Maria Rosso
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Humanities & Social Sciences Communications, 2023 Obtaining data from non-Western cultural contexts is essential for enhancing the cross-cultural validity of attachment theory. This study investigated the associations among maternal attachment style, maternal willingness to serve as an attachment figure,
Michiyo Inagawa, Tatsuma Nakao
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