Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences.
J Fam Psychol. 2022 Sep;36(6):975-985. doi: 10.1037/fam0000930. Epub 2021 Oct 25.
Research on adults' self-reported attachment styles, investigated mostly in social and personality psychology, has rarely been bridged with research on parenting, studied mostly in developmental psychology. We proposed that parents' attachment insecurity (avoidance and anxiety) has an indirect association with their power-assertive control, mediated through their negative representations, or internal working models (IWM) of the child. In 200 community families from a Midwestern state (mothers, fathers, and children), we collected multimethod, parallel data for mother-child and father-child relationships. When children were infants, parents completed self-reports of their own attachment styles. When children were toddlers, we assessed parents' IWMs of the child in an interview and observed parental power-assertive control in structured, naturalistic discipline contexts in the laboratory. Mothers' avoidance showed a unique association with their IWM of their child. Consequently, there was an indirect association from the mother's avoidance to negative IWM to power-assertive control. Mothers' anxiety was associated directly with more power-assertive control. Fathers' avoidance and anxiety were also associated with their IWMs, but there were no unique associations, and the impact on parenting was limited. Forging a rapprochement between social and personality research on adults' attachment and developmental research on parenting, this work elucidates a potential mechanism of the intergenerational transmission of adaptive and maladaptive parenting in families. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2022 APA, all rights reserved).
成人自我报告依恋风格的研究主要集中在社会和人格心理学领域，很少与发展心理学中研究的育儿研究相联系。我们提出，父母的不安全依恋（回避和焦虑）通过他们对孩子的负面代表性或内部工作模型（IWM），与他们的权力主张控制有间接联系。在中西部一个州的 200 个社区家庭中（母亲、父亲和孩子），我们收集了多方法、平行的母子和父子关系数据。当孩子是婴儿时，父母完成了自己依恋风格的自我报告。当孩子是幼儿时，我们在访谈中评估了父母对孩子的 IWM，并在实验室中结构化的自然主义纪律环境中观察了父母的权力主张控制。母亲的回避与她对孩子的 IWM 有独特的联系。因此，从母亲的回避到负面 IWM 再到权力主张控制，存在间接关联。母亲的焦虑与更多的权力主张控制直接相关。父亲的回避和焦虑也与他们的 IWM 有关，但没有独特的关联，对育儿的影响有限。将成人依恋的社会和人格研究与育儿的发展研究联系起来，这项工作阐明了家庭中适应性和适应性育儿的代际传递的潜在机制。（PsycInfo 数据库记录（c）2022 APA，保留所有权利）。
