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- Title
Antecedents of Maternal Sensitivity During Distressing Tasks: Integrating Attachment, Social Information Processing, and Psychobiological Perspectives.
- Authors
Leerkes, Esther M.; Supple, Andrew J.; O'Brien, Marion; Calkins, Susan D.; Haltigan, John D.; Wong, Maria S.; Fortuna, Keren
- Abstract
Predictors of maternal sensitivity to infant distress were examined among 259 primiparous mothers. The Adult Attachment Interview, self-reports of personality and emotional functioning, and measures of physiological, emotional, and cognitive responses to videotapes of crying infants were administered prenatally. Maternal sensitivity was observed during three distress-eliciting tasks when infants were 6 months old. Coherence of mind was directly associated with higher maternal sensitivity to distress. Mothers' heightened emotional risk was indirectly associated with lower sensitivity via mothers' self-focused and negative processing of infant cry cues. Likewise, high physiological arousal accompanied by poor physiological regulation in response to infant crying was indirectly associated with lower maternal sensitivity to distress through mothers' self-focused and negative processing of infant cry cues.
- Subjects
SENSITIVITY (Personality trait); MOTHER-infant relationship; ATTACHMENT theory (Psychology); HUMAN information processing; PRIMIPARAS; CRYING in infants; SENSE of coherence; SELF-evaluation; AROUSAL (Physiology)
- Publication
Child Development, 2015, Vol 86, Issue 1, p94
- ISSN
0009-3920
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/cdev.12288