Attachment representations in late-adopted children: the use of narrative in the assessment of disorganisation, mentalising and coherence of mind
Attachment representations in late-adopted children: the use of narrative in the assessment of disorganisation, mentalising and coherence of mind
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10.1177/0308575914543235
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发表时间：
2014-10-01
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0.6
通讯作者：
Zavattini, Giulio
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作者：
Pace, Cecilia;Cavanna, Donatella;Zavattini, Giulio
后来被收养的儿童在被收养前的生活中往往遭受各种各样的剥夺。这些早期的不良经历可能会对儿童的依恋表征产生负面影响，即使在他们被收养之后。本研究评估了61名晚期收养儿童在安置第一年的依恋表征，探讨了安置年龄，收养时间和性别的风险和保护因素。依恋表征是使用曼彻斯特完成依恋故事任务（MCAST）捕获的，这是一种玩偶游戏叙事，提供了四种不同的依恋分类-安全型，回避型，矛盾型和无组织型，以及三种整体评分，包括无组织，心智化和心智连贯性。男性似乎比女性更容易受到不安全感和组织混乱的影响。数据还表明，对于在依恋敏感期之后安置的儿童，在收养家庭中度过的时间越长以及是女性是保护因素。此外，依恋叙事似乎是一个有用的工具，探索后收养儿童的内心世界从第一年的安置。
Late-adopted children have often suffered a wide range of deprivations in their pre-adoption lives. These early adverse experiences can have a negative effect on children's attachment representations even after they have been adopted. This study assesses the attachment representations of 61 late-adopted children over the first year of placement, exploring the risk and protective factors of age at placement, length of adoption and gender. The attachment representations were captured using the Manchester Completion Attachment Story Task (MCAST), a doll-play narrative that provides four different attachment classifications - secure, avoidant, ambivalent and disorganised and three global scorings for disorganisation, mentalising and coherence of mind.The age of adoption was negatively associated with disorganisation, while length of placement was positively correlated with mentalising. Males seemed to be more vulnerable to insecurity and disorganisation than females. The data also suggested that for children placed after the attachment-sensitive phase, the longer the time spent in the adoptive families and being female were protective factors. Moreover, attachment narratives seemed to be a useful tool to explore the inner world of late-adopted children from the first year of placement.