Association between adult representations of attachment and emotional availability in a multiple -risk sample of mother -child dyads affected by familial HIV and AIDS.
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Title
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Association between adult representations of attachment and emotional availability in a multiple -risk sample of mother -child dyads affected by familial HIV and AIDS.
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Identifier
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AAI3204992
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identifier
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3204992
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Creator
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Gutierrez, Diana Marie.
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Contributor
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Adviser: Arietta Slade
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Date
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2006
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Language
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English
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Publisher
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City University of New York.
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Subject
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Psychology, Clinical | Psychology, Developmental
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Abstract
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The purpose of this study was to examine the association between adult representations of attachment and emotional availability in a sample of multiple-risk mother-child dyads. All participants met the following criteria for participation in the adult attachment/emotional availability study: each mother lived with and provided daily care for her child, each child was between 14 and 28 months of age, and each child's maternal grandparent was diagnosed with HIV. Forty-six mothers completed the Adult Attachment Interview (AAI; George, Kaplan, & Main, 1996), and participated in a 12-minute videotaped structured interaction with their infants, which was coded using the Emotional Availability Scales - 3rd Edition (Biringen, 1999; Biringen, Robinson, & Emde, 1993). Regardless of attachment classification, mothers who experienced the loss of the parent with AIDS were more sensitive and structuring, less intrusive, and less hostile in interactions with their infants than mothers who had not yet suffered the loss of the parent with AIDS. Mothers receiving an Autonomous classification were less hostile than those with a Dismissing and Unresolved classification. Mothers who were classified as Unresolved with an underlying Secure state of mind in regard to attachment were found to be more sensitive, less intrusive, and less hostile than mothers classified as Unresolved with an underlying insecure attachment (Dismissing, Preoccupied, and Cannot Classify), while the children of the mothers with an underlying Secure attachment were found to be more involving of their mothers in interactions.
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Type
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dissertation
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Source
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PQT Legacy CUNY.xlsx
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degree
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Ph.D.
