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- Title
Les conversations mère-enfant et l'attachement des enfants à la pèriode préscolaire.
- Authors
Cyr, Chantal; Dubois-Comtois, Karine; Moss, Ellen
- Abstract
This study examines whether mother-child conversation patterns are associated with child attachment classifications at preschool age (N = 80). Results revealed that a child's discourse style is similar to that of her or his mother. In comparison with mothers of insecure ambivalent or disorganized children, mothers of secure children made more frequent verbal statements that elaborated emotional content. Mothers of avoidant children were more inclined to minimize emotional content than mothers of secure children. In comparison with other mothers, those with a disorganized child were sharing more frightening and hostile content, or made more verbal statements accompanied by aggressive behaviors. Secure children made more frequent verbal statements that elaborated emotional content than avoidant and disorganized children. Disorganized children made more controlling verbal statements as well as statements accompanied by aggressive or flight behaviors. Finally, our results showed that child capacity to elaborate emotional experiences partially mediated the link between maternal capacity to elaborate emotional content and child security of attachment. Our results emphasize the importance of mother-child conversational exchanges for the development of attachment in preschool children.
- Subjects
MOTHER-child relationship; ATTACHMENT behavior; PRESCHOOL children; AGGRESSION (Psychology); EMOTIONS; ORAL communication
- Publication
Canadian Journal of Behavioural Science, 2008, Vol 40, Issue 3, p140
- ISSN
0008-400X
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1037/0008-400X.40.3.140