De Winter Simon, Bosmans Guy, Salemink Elske
KU Leuven.
University of Amsterdam.
Child Dev. 2017 Jan;88(1):131-140. doi: 10.1111/cdev.12587. Epub 2016 Jun 27.
Attachment theory implies that children's inclination to interpret attachment figures behavior as supportive and available causally influences children's trust in their attachment figure's availability. An experiment was conducted to test whether training children (8-12 years old) to interpret ambiguous interactions with their mothers in a more secure way increases their trust in their mother's availability. Participants (N = 49) were randomly assigned to either a secure condition to train children to interpret their mother's behavior as supportive or a neutral placebo condition, where interpretations were unrelated to maternal support. Results supported the hypothesis: After the secure training, children interpreted maternal behavior more securely and trusted more in her availability. This suggests that attachment-related processing biases causally affect attachment expectations.
依恋理论表明，儿童将依恋对象的行为解读为支持性且随时可及的倾向会因果性地影响儿童对其依恋对象随时可及性的信任。开展了一项实验，以测试训练8至12岁儿童以更安全的方式解读与母亲的模糊互动是否会增加他们对母亲随时可及性的信任。参与者（N = 49）被随机分配到一个安全条件组，训练儿童将母亲的行为解读为支持性的，或一个中性安慰剂条件组，在该条件下，解读与母亲的支持无关。结果支持了这一假设：经过安全训练后，儿童对母亲行为的解读更具安全感，并且对母亲的随时可及性信任度更高。这表明与依恋相关的加工偏差会因果性地影响依恋期望。
