Special Education and Parenting, KU Leuven , Leuven, Belgium.
Department of Clinical Child and Family Studies, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam , Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
Attach Hum Dev. 2020 Aug;22(4):425-447. doi: 10.1080/14616734.2019.1659835. Epub 2019 Sep 3.
The relationships between children with severe or profound intellectual disabilities (ID) and their parents may fulfil attachment functions, such as regulating emotional responses to stress. This study examined the extent to which children with severe or profound ID differentiate between their parents and a stranger as a resource for stress-regulation. A home-based experimental paradigm was conducted and video-recorded in 38 families. Children (1-8 years) were exposed to four naturalistic stressors followed by comfort, randomly provided by the parents or the stranger. Emotional behaviour (arousal and valence) and the skin conductance level were simultaneously recorded. With regard to both emotional behaviour and skin conductance, children significantly differentiated between their parents as attachment figures and the stranger during stress and comfort, despite their impairments on various developmental domains. Behavioural observation and physiology show complementary manifestations of parent-child attachment in this population.
患有严重或极重度智力残疾 (ID) 的儿童与其父母之间的关系可能具有依恋功能，例如调节对压力的情绪反应。本研究考察了严重或极重度 ID 儿童区分父母和陌生人作为压力调节资源的程度。在 38 个家庭中进行了基于家庭的实验范式，并进行了视频记录。儿童（1-8 岁）暴露于四种自然发生的压力源后，随机由父母或陌生人提供安慰。同时记录情绪行为（唤醒度和效价）和皮肤电导率。关于情绪行为和皮肤电导率，尽管儿童在各种发育领域存在障碍，但他们在压力和安慰期间均能显著区分父母作为依恋对象和陌生人。行为观察和生理学显示了该人群中亲子依恋的互补表现。
