Parent-child Patterns of Reminiscing and Play: Relations to Attachment

亲子回忆和游戏模式：与依恋的关系

• 批准号: 8096727
• 负责人: Widaad Zaman
• 金额: $ 2.79万
• 依托单位: EMORY UNIVERSITY
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2010
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2010-07-01 至 2012-05-14
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/8096727
• 关键词: 4 year old; Academic achievement; Age; Area; Behavioral; Caregivers; Characteristics; Child; Conflict (Psychology); Databases; Development; Emotional; Event; Family; Fathers; Individual; Link; Mother-Child Relations; Mothers; Outcome; Parenting behavior; Parents; Pattern; Personal Satisfaction; Play; Recruitment Activity; Relative (related person); Research; Sampling; Secure; System; Toy; Training; Work; caregiving; emotional experience; experience; father child interaction; father role; girls; peer; pre-doctoral; psychologic; public health relevance; social; stem

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Research in attachment has been valuable in helping us understand the critical and invaluable bond that develops between Individuals. However, attachment research is limited in one important way: the almost exclusive focus on samples of primary caregiving mothers and their children, leading to the assumption that characteristics defining the mother-child relationship, such as sensitive caregiving and talk about the past, are most important for attachment. However, recent studies indicate that whereas mother-child sensitive caregiving and reminiscing are related to the quality of children's attachment (Laible, 2004), it is father-child quality of play that relates more strongly to children's attachment (Grossmann et al., 2002). Yet, research has yet to examine reminiscing and play in relation to attachment in the same parents simultaneously. Studies suggest that children who are securely attached to both their parents fare emotionally and psychologically better than children who are only securely attached to one parent (see Thompson, 1999). Thus, it is important to understand attachment in relation to both mother and father. The primary objective of this research is to understand the different styles of mother-child and father-child interactions through reminiscing and play, and how these differences relate to children's attachment. We will first compare parent-child reminiscing in mothers and fathers, then parent-child quality of play in mothers and fathers, and finally examine relations between parent-child reminiscing and attachment, and parent-child play and attachment. Fifty mother-child and father-child pairs of 4-year old children, half girls, recruited from the Emory Child Study Center database will be asked to reminisce together about past emotional experiences (sad, conflict with parent and peer, and happy) and past play experiences (special outing and last trip to playground). Dyads will also be asked to engage in a free play task Involving random toys. Attachment will be assessed using the age-appropriate MacArthur Story Stem Battery. It is hypothesized that maternal reminiscing will be more elaborative than paternal reminiscing, father-child play will be more challenging than mother-child play, and maternal reminiscing but not paternal reminiscing, and father-child play but not mother-child play will be related to the quality of attachment in children. PUBLIC HEALTH RELEVANCE: Studies have linked children's secure attachment to parents to many areas of developmental outcomes, including academic achievement, the healthy formation of later social relationships, emotional, and psychological well-being, later parenting abilities, and numerous other outcome variables. It is thus important to understand the relative contribution of each parent to their child's quality of attachment, as this may have implications for child outcomes.

描述（由申请人提供）：对依恋的研究在帮助我们理解个体之间发展的关键和无价的联系方面是有价值的。然而，依恋研究在一个重要方面是有限的：几乎只关注主要照顾母亲及其子女的样本，导致假设定义母子关系的特征，如敏感的照顾和谈论过去，对依恋最重要。然而，最近的研究表明，虽然母子敏感的照顾和回忆与儿童的依恋质量有关（Laible, 2004），但亲子游戏质量与儿童的依恋关系更为密切（Grossmann et al., 2002）。然而，目前还没有研究同时检查回忆和玩耍与同一父母的依恋关系。研究表明，与父母双方都有安全依恋关系的孩子在情感和心理上比只与父母一方有安全依恋关系的孩子要好（见Thompson， 1999）。因此，理解与母亲和父亲的依恋关系是很重要的。本研究的主要目的是了解母子和父子通过回忆和游戏互动的不同类型，以及这些差异与儿童依恋的关系。我们将首先比较母亲和父亲的亲子回忆，然后比较母亲和父亲的亲子游戏质量，最后考察亲子回忆与依恋、亲子游戏与依恋的关系。从埃默里儿童研究中心的数据库中招募了50对4岁的孩子，其中一半是女孩，他们是母子和父子，将被要求一起回忆过去的情感经历（悲伤，与父母和同伴的冲突，以及快乐）和过去的游戏经历（特殊的郊游和最后一次去游乐场）。二人组还将被要求参与一个涉及随机玩具的自由游戏任务。将使用适合年龄的MacArthur Story Stem Battery评估附件。假设母亲的回忆比父亲的回忆更精细，父子游戏比母子游戏更具挑战性，母亲的回忆而不是父亲的回忆，父子游戏而不是母子游戏与儿童的依恋质量有关。