PARENTAL REPRESENTATIONS OF ATTACHMENT

为了增进对母婴发展的了解 关系，特别是母亲自己的经验， 关系，因为一系列的三个临床访谈将被附加到一个 更大的，核心研究的性质，决定因素和发展 在所谓的“可怕的”时期， Twos”--孩子的第二年和第三年。 除了 在两个小时的过程中观察母亲和孩子的互动， 当孩子们15-16岁，21-22岁，27-28岁， 33-34个月大，并评估婴儿-母亲依恋安全性， 孩子18个月大，母亲将被询问使用临床- 12个月、15个月和34个月大的儿童的访谈协议。 的 第一次面试将评估母亲对她的关系的陈述 她的父母在她的原籍家庭作为一个孩子和后两个 母亲对她和孩子关系的表述 共有150 工人和中产阶级家庭将进行研究，结果450 在五年的治疗期内对母亲进行了访谈。 四 一般性的问题将得到解决，一个处理的关系 一个人的父母和一个人的孩子之间的代表性;第二个关于 这种表征和母子关系模式之间的关系 在家里观察到的相互作用;第三个与这种关系之间的关系 婴儿-母亲依恋的表现和安全性;最后， 15岁至34岁母亲对子女的代表性的稳定性和变化 个月

In order to enhance understanding of the development of mother-child relationships and particularly of mother's own experience of the relationship, as series of three clinical interviews will be appended to a larger, core-study of the nature, determinants and developmental consequences of family interaction patterns during the so-called "terrible twos"--the child's second and third years of life. In addition to observing the mother-child interaction during the course of two, 2-hour, naturalistic home observations when children are 15-16, 21-22, 27-28 and 33-34 months of age and assessing infant-mother attachment security when children are 18 months of age, mothers will be queried using clinical- interview protocols when children are 12, 15 and 34 months of age. The first interview will assess mother's representation of her relationship with her own parents in her family of origin as a child and the latter two mother's representation of her relationship with her child. A total of 150 working- and middle-class families will be studied, resulting in 450 maternal interviews across the five year investigatory period. Four general question will be addressed, one dealing with the relationship between representation of one's parent and one's child; a second concerning the relation between such representations and patterns of mother-child interaction observed in the home; a third with the relation between such representations and security of infant-mother attachment; and finally, stability and change in maternal representations of her child from 15 to 34 months.