The Invisible Bonds: Does the Secure Base Script of Attachment Influence Children's Attention toward Their Mother?

Autor/inn/en	Bosmans, Guy; De Raedt, Rudi; Braet, Caroline
Titel	The Invisible Bonds: Does the Secure Base Script of Attachment Influence Children's Attention toward Their Mother?
Quelle	In: Journal of Clinical Child and Adolescent Psychology, 36 (2007) 4, S.557-567 (11 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1537-4416
Schlagwörter	Cues; Mothers; Females; Attachment Behavior; Parent Child Relationship; Hypothesis Testing; Emotional Response; Attention Span; Elementary School Students; Foreign Countries; Grade 5; Grade 6; Psychopathology; Belgium + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Stichwort; Mother; Mutter; Weibliches Geschlecht; Attachment; Bindungsverhalten; Parents-child relationship; Parent-child-relation; Parent-child relationship; Eltern-Kind-Beziehung; Hypothesenprüfung; Hypothesentest; Emotionales Verhalten; Ausland; School year 05; 5. Schuljahr; Schuljahr 05; School year 06; 6. Schuljahr; Schuljahr 06; Psychopathologie; Belgien
Abstract	The internal working model of attachment can be conceptualized as a cognitive schema to provide testable hypotheses. Thus, this study predicts a relationship between attachment and attentional bias toward the mother using an emotional modification of the exogenous cueing task. The content of the cues (mother vs. unknown women) and the duration of the presentation of the cues (200 msec vs. 1,000 msec) were varied. The test was administered to 40 nonreferred children (9 to 13 years of age), divided into high- and low-secure attachment groups. As predicted, low-secure children directed their attention more quickly toward mother than toward unknown women at later stages of attentional processing (long presentation). Furthermore, low-secure children showed more maintained attention toward mother compared to unknown women and showed significantly more maintained attention toward mother compared with high-secure children. (Contains 1 figure, 3 tables and 1 footnote.) (Author).
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Update	2017/4/10