Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA, USA.
Department of Psychiatry, University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine, Philadelphia, PA, USA.
Attach Hum Dev. 2022 Apr;24(2):147-168. doi: 10.1080/14616734.2021.1881983. Epub 2021 Feb 9.
The present two-study investigation is the first to examine whether experimentally boosting attachment security (security priming) affects attitudes in the parenting domain for both parents and non-parents. Mothers (n = 72) and childless undergraduates (n = 82) were randomly assigned to a neutral or a secure prime condition and then completed measures of implicit attitudes (a child-focused version of the Go/No-Go Association Task) and explicit attitudes (self-reported) toward children. Following the priming manipulation, mothers in the secure prime condition had more positive implicit attitudes toward their child compared to mothers in the neutral prime condition. Security priming also increased mothers' positive explicit attitudes toward their children, but only among mothers who scored high on self-reported attachment-related avoidance. No priming effects emerged among non-parents. These results provide the first evidence for a causal link between parental attachment security and parental attitudes toward children.
本两项研究首次考察了实验性地增强依恋安全性（安全启动）是否会影响父母和非父母在育儿领域的态度。母亲（n=72）和无子女的大学生（n=82）被随机分配到中性或安全启动条件下，然后完成了对儿童的内隐态度（Go/No-Go 联想任务的儿童焦点版本）和外显态度（自我报告）的测量。在启动操作之后，与中性启动条件下的母亲相比，安全启动条件下的母亲对自己孩子的内隐态度更为积极。安全启动还增加了母亲对孩子的积极外显态度，但仅在那些自我报告的与依恋相关的回避得分较高的母亲中出现。非父母中没有出现启动效应。这些结果为父母依恋安全性与父母对孩子的态度之间存在因果关系提供了首个证据。
