Attachment expectations moderate links between social support and maternal adjustment from 6 to 18 months postpartum / Yufei Gu ; Theodore E. A. WATERS ; Victoria Zhu ; Brittany JAMIESON ; Danielle Lim ; Gabrielle Schmitt ; Leslie ATKINSON in Development and Psychopathology, 37-1 (February 2025)  

Public ISBD [article]  inDevelopment and Psychopathology > 37-1 (February 2025) . - p.371-383 Titre : Attachment expectations moderate links between social support and maternal adjustment from 6 to 18 months postpartum : Development and Psychopathology Type de document : Texte imprimé et/ou numérique Auteurs : Yufei Gu, Auteur ; Theodore E. A. WATERS, Auteur ; Victoria Zhu, Auteur ; Brittany JAMIESON, Auteur ; Danielle Lim, Auteur ; Gabrielle Schmitt, Auteur ; Leslie ATKINSON, Auteur Article en page(s) : p.371-383 Langues : Anglais (eng) Mots-clés : Attachment  maternal adjustment  secure base script knowledge  social support Index. décimale : PER Périodiques Résumé : Significant links exist between one?s perception of available social support and mental health outcomes, including during the transition to motherhood. Yet, attachment theory posits that individuals do not benefit equally from social support. As such, we examined the influence of attachment representations (i.e., secure base script knowledge) as they potentially moderate links between social support and psychological distress in a 1-year longitudinal study of an ethnically diverse (56% White) sample of infant-mother dyads. We hypothesized that higher social support would predict lower maternal psychological distress and this relation would be strongest in those with higher secure base script knowledge. Results indicated that maternal perceptions of social support were significantly negatively correlated with psychological distress. Analyses revealed that secure base script scores significantly moderated these associations. Interestingly, for those high in script knowledge, low social support predicted greater psychological distress. For those low in script knowledge, social support was unrelated to psychological distress. This pattern suggested that those who expect care (i.e., high secure base script knowledge) but receive minimal support (i.e., low perceived social support) find motherhood uniquely dysregulating. Practitioners may do well to examine individuals' attachment expectations in relation to their current social support. En ligne : https://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0954579423001657 Permalink : https://www.cra-rhone-alpes.org/cid/opac_css/index.php?lvl=notice_display&id=546 [article] Attachment expectations moderate links between social support and maternal adjustment from 6 to 18 months postpartum : Development and Psychopathology [Texte imprimé et/ou numérique] / Yufei Gu, Auteur ; Theodore E. A. WATERS, Auteur ; Victoria Zhu, Auteur ; Brittany JAMIESON, Auteur ; Danielle Lim, Auteur ; Gabrielle Schmitt, Auteur ; Leslie ATKINSON, Auteur . - p.371-383. Langues : Anglais (eng) in Development and Psychopathology > 37-1 (February 2025) . - p.371-383 Mots-clés : Attachment  maternal adjustment  secure base script knowledge  social support Index. décimale : PER Périodiques Résumé : Significant links exist between one?s perception of available social support and mental health outcomes, including during the transition to motherhood. Yet, attachment theory posits that individuals do not benefit equally from social support. As such, we examined the influence of attachment representations (i.e., secure base script knowledge) as they potentially moderate links between social support and psychological distress in a 1-year longitudinal study of an ethnically diverse (56% White) sample of infant-mother dyads. We hypothesized that higher social support would predict lower maternal psychological distress and this relation would be strongest in those with higher secure base script knowledge. Results indicated that maternal perceptions of social support were significantly negatively correlated with psychological distress. Analyses revealed that secure base script scores significantly moderated these associations. Interestingly, for those high in script knowledge, low social support predicted greater psychological distress. For those low in script knowledge, social support was unrelated to psychological distress. This pattern suggested that those who expect care (i.e., high secure base script knowledge) but receive minimal support (i.e., low perceived social support) find motherhood uniquely dysregulating. Practitioners may do well to examine individuals' attachment expectations in relation to their current social support. En ligne : https://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0954579423001657 Permalink : https://www.cra-rhone-alpes.org/cid/opac_css/index.php?lvl=notice_display&id=546

Mother-infant cortisol attunement: Associations with mother-infant attachment disorganization / Jaclyn A. LUDMER NOFECH-MOZES in Development and Psychopathology, 32-1 (February 2020)  

Public ISBD [article]  inDevelopment and Psychopathology > 32-1 (February 2020) . - p.43-55 Titre : Mother-infant cortisol attunement: Associations with mother-infant attachment disorganization Type de document : Texte imprimé et/ou numérique Auteurs : Jaclyn A. LUDMER NOFECH-MOZES, Auteur ; Brittany JAMIESON, Auteur ; Andrea GONZALEZ, Auteur ; Leslie ATKINSON, Auteur Article en page(s) : p.43-55 Langues : Anglais (eng) Mots-clés : attachment  attunement  cortisol  disorganized  strange situation Index. décimale : PER Périodiques Résumé : This study explores the conceptualization of mother-infant cortisol attunement both theoretically and empirically, and its association with mother-infant attachment disorganization. In a community sample (N = 256), disorganization and cortisol were assessed during the Strange Situation Procedure (SSP) at infant age 17 months. Salivary cortisol was collected at baseline, and 20 and 40 min after the SSP. We utilized three statistical approaches: correlated growth modeling (probing a simultaneous conceptualization of attunement), cross-lagged modeling (probing a lagged, reciprocal conceptualization of attunement), and a multilevel model difference score analysis (to examine the pattern of discrepancies in mother-infant cortisol values). Correlated growth modeling revealed that disorganized, relative to organized, dyads had significant magnitude of change over time, such that, among disorganized dyads, as mothers had greater declines in cortisol, infants had greater increases. The difference score analysis revealed that disorganized, relative to organized, dyads had a greater divergence between maternal and infant cortisol values, such that maternal values were lower than infant values. Disorganized attachment status was not significantly associated with attunement when conceptualized as reciprocal and lagged in the cross-lagged model. Findings suggest that mother-infant dyads in disorganized attachment relationships, who are by definition behaviorally misattuned, are also misattuned in their adrenocortical responses. En ligne : http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0954579418001396 Permalink : https://www.cra-rhone-alpes.org/cid/opac_css/index.php?lvl=notice_display&id=415 [article] Mother-infant cortisol attunement: Associations with mother-infant attachment disorganization [Texte imprimé et/ou numérique] / Jaclyn A. LUDMER NOFECH-MOZES, Auteur ; Brittany JAMIESON, Auteur ; Andrea GONZALEZ, Auteur ; Leslie ATKINSON, Auteur . - p.43-55. Langues : Anglais (eng) in Development and Psychopathology > 32-1 (February 2020) . - p.43-55 Mots-clés : attachment  attunement  cortisol  disorganized  strange situation Index. décimale : PER Périodiques Résumé : This study explores the conceptualization of mother-infant cortisol attunement both theoretically and empirically, and its association with mother-infant attachment disorganization. In a community sample (N = 256), disorganization and cortisol were assessed during the Strange Situation Procedure (SSP) at infant age 17 months. Salivary cortisol was collected at baseline, and 20 and 40 min after the SSP. We utilized three statistical approaches: correlated growth modeling (probing a simultaneous conceptualization of attunement), cross-lagged modeling (probing a lagged, reciprocal conceptualization of attunement), and a multilevel model difference score analysis (to examine the pattern of discrepancies in mother-infant cortisol values). Correlated growth modeling revealed that disorganized, relative to organized, dyads had significant magnitude of change over time, such that, among disorganized dyads, as mothers had greater declines in cortisol, infants had greater increases. The difference score analysis revealed that disorganized, relative to organized, dyads had a greater divergence between maternal and infant cortisol values, such that maternal values were lower than infant values. Disorganized attachment status was not significantly associated with attunement when conceptualized as reciprocal and lagged in the cross-lagged model. Findings suggest that mother-infant dyads in disorganized attachment relationships, who are by definition behaviorally misattuned, are also misattuned in their adrenocortical responses. En ligne : http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0954579418001396 Permalink : https://www.cra-rhone-alpes.org/cid/opac_css/index.php?lvl=notice_display&id=415

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