Attachment Security in Pregnancy Mediates the Association Between Maternal Childhood Maltreatment and Emotional and Behavioral Problems in Offspring.
Adult attachment
Childhood maltreatment
Intergenerational effects
Pregnancy
Journal
Child psychiatry and human development
ISSN: 1573-3327
Titre abrégé: Child Psychiatry Hum Dev
Pays: United States
ID NLM: 1275332
Informations de publication
Date de publication:
10 2021
10 2021
Historique:
received:
05
06
2020
accepted:
30
09
2020
revised:
21
09
2020
pubmed:
14
10
2020
medline:
27
10
2021
entrez:
13
10
2020
Statut:
ppublish
Résumé
Attachment security may be a mechanism by which exposure to early life adversity affects subsequent generations. We used a prospective cohort design to examine this possibility in a convenience sample of 124 women (age = 23-45 years, M = 32.32 [SD = 4.83] years; 57.3% White, 22.6% Asian) who provided self-reports of attachment style during pregnancy using the Attachment Style Questionnaire, of whom 96 (age = 28-50 years, M = 36.67 [SD = 4.90] years; 60.4% White, 19.8% Asian) were reassessed when their child was preschool-age (M = 4.38 [SD = 1.29] years). Women self-reported on their own childhood maltreatment severity and their child's current emotional and behavioral problems using the Childhood Trauma Questionnaire and the Child Behavior Checklist for ages 1.5-5, respectively. Maternal childhood maltreatment severity was associated with less secure, and more avoidant and anxious attachment. Mediation analyses revealed further that less secure maternal attachment, but not avoidant or anxious attachment, mediated the associations between maternal childhood maltreatment and offspring emotional and behavioral problems. These findings suggest that improving maternal attachment security, which can be identified even prior to the child's birth, is an important target to consider for intervention efforts aimed at minimizing adverse intergenerational effects of early life adversity.
Identifiants
pubmed: 33047183
doi: 10.1007/s10578-020-01073-7
pii: 10.1007/s10578-020-01073-7
pmc: PMC8802169
mid: NIHMS1771983
doi:
Types de publication
Journal Article
Research Support, N.I.H., Extramural
Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
Langues
eng
Sous-ensembles de citation
IM
Pagination
966-977Subventions
Organisme : NIMH NIH HHS
ID : T32 MH019938
Pays : United States
Organisme : NIMH NIH HHS
ID : 5T32MH019938-19
Pays : United States
Organisme : NCATS NIH HHS
ID : UL1 TR001085
Pays : United States
Organisme : NICHD NIH HHS
ID : R21 HD090493
Pays : United States
Organisme : NCATS NIH HHS
ID : UL1 TR003142
Pays : United States
Organisme : Jacobs Foundation
ID : 2017-1261-05
Organisme : NIMH NIH HHS
ID : R21 MH111978
Pays : United States
Informations de copyright
© 2020. Springer Science+Business Media, LLC, part of Springer Nature.
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