Bosmans Guy, Van de Walle Magali, Bijttebier Patricia, De Winter Simon, Heylen Joke, Ceulemans Eva, De Raedt Rudi
Clinical Psychology, KU Leuven, Leuven, BE.
School Psychology and Development in Context, KU Leuven, Leuven, BE.
Psychol Belg. 2020 Sep 4;60(1):294-314. doi: 10.5334/pb.550.
The breadth of children's attentional field around their mother determines whether securely or insecurely attached children are at risk to develop depressive symptoms when confronted with distress in adolescence. To test this effect longitudinally, we measured children's ( = 10.93; = 109) baseline attentional breadth around their mother, attachment status (combining attachment coherence, secure base script knowledge, and self-reported trust), and self-reported depressive symptoms. One and two years later, we measured self-reported distress and depressive symptoms. We tested three-way interactions between attentional breadth × attachment × distress on changes in depressive symptoms. This three-way interaction was marginally significantly linked with changes in depressive symptoms from baseline to year 1, and significantly with changes in depressive symptoms from baseline to year 2. Results pointed to the protective role of a narrow attentional field around the mother in middle childhood for securely attached children who are confronted with distress later in life.
儿童围绕母亲的注意广度决定了在青春期面对困扰时，安全型或不安全型依恋的儿童是否有出现抑郁症状的风险。为了纵向检验这种效应，我们测量了儿童（平均年龄 = 10.93岁；样本量 = 109）围绕母亲的基线注意广度、依恋状态（结合依恋连贯性、安全基地脚本知识和自我报告的信任）以及自我报告的抑郁症状。一年和两年后，我们测量了自我报告的困扰和抑郁症状。我们检验了注意广度×依恋×困扰对抑郁症状变化的三向交互作用。这种三向交互作用与从基线到第1年抑郁症状的变化存在边缘显著关联，与从基线到第2年抑郁症状的变化存在显著关联。结果表明，童年中期围绕母亲的狭窄注意广度对后来生活中面临困扰的安全型依恋儿童具有保护作用。
