Mother-Child Attachment Patterns and Different Types of Anxiety Symptoms: Is There Specificity of Relations?

Autor/inn/en	Brumariu, Laura E.; Kerns, Kathryn A.
Titel	Mother-Child Attachment Patterns and Different Types of Anxiety Symptoms: Is There Specificity of Relations?
Quelle	In: Child Psychiatry and Human Development, 41 (2010) 6, S.663-674 (12 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0009-398X
DOI	10.1007/s10578-010-0195-0
Schlagwörter	Inhibition; Risk; School Phobia; Separation Anxiety; Parent Child Relationship; Mothers; Attachment Behavior; Symptoms (Individual Disorders); Security (Psychology); Gender Differences + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Hemmung; Risiko; Schulangst; Trennungsangst; Parents-child relationship; Parent-child-relation; Parent-child relationship; Eltern-Kind-Beziehung; Mother; Mutter; Attachment; Bindungsverhalten; Psychiatrische Symptomatik; Security; Psychology; Sicherheit; Geschlechterkonflikt
Abstract	The purpose of this study was to test Manassis' proposal (Child-parent relations: Attachment and anxiety disorders, 255-272, 2001) that attachment patterns (secure, ambivalent, avoidant, and disorganized) may relate to different types of anxiety symptoms, and that behavioral inhibition may moderate these relations. Using a story stem interview to assess attachment and children's reports of anxiety symptoms, we found some support for these hypotheses in a sample of 10-12 years olds. Security was related to lower levels of all types of anxieties, except separation anxiety. Ambivalence was positively related to separation anxiety, although this relation was stronger for boys. Although avoidance was not related to anxiety, disorganization was positively related to somatic symptoms, social phobia, and school phobia. Behavioral inhibition moderated the relations of security with social phobia, and of disorganization with school phobia. The findings suggest that it is important to consider specificity between attachment patterns and various types of anxiety symptoms and to recognize that these relations may be altered by other risk factors. (As Provided).
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Update	2017/4/10