Both maternal sensitivity and atypical maternal behavior independently predict attachment security and disorganization in adolescent mother–infant relationships

Maternal interactive behaviour as a predictor of preschoolers' attachment representations among full term and premature samples

“…This link was first hinted at by van IJzendoorn et al's [3] meta-analytic finding that lower levels of maternal sensitivity showed a modest association with disorganized attachment. This pattern has been reinforced by the more recent work of Moran et al [26] describing robust associations between disorganized attachment relationships and aspects of the quality of maternal interaction displayed in the home that did not include measures of atypical or frightening behaviour. The results of the current study are noteworthy both because they extend this evidence beyond behaviour manifestations of the attachment relationship to the child's emerging attachment representations and because the results stem from a low-risk sample of children.…”

Mediating and moderating processes underlying the association between maternal cognition and infant attachment

“…These results are especially noteworthy because extant theoretical models portray disrupted maternal behavior as a determinant of disorganized attachment relationships rather than secure attachment relationships (e.g. LyonsRuth, Yellin, Melnick, & Atwood, 2005; see also, Moran, Forbes, Evans, Tarabulsy, & Madigan, 2008).…”

Stability in Maternal Autonomy Support and Child Executive Functioning

“…Overall, the empirical studies that investigated the relation between different patterns of consistency and change in parenting and child development report that children of mothers who are consistently high in their positive parenting behaviors across time have more positive outcomes than children who experience consistently lower positive parenting behaviors or inconsistent parenting behaviors across time (Beckwith et al 1992;Frye et al 2010;Landry et al 2001;Mattanah 2005). However, previous studies mainly focused on maternal responsiveness, while it is increasingly well-documented that parenting is multidimensional (Grusec and Davidov 2010) and that other aspects of parental behavior have unique contributions to child functioning, above and beyond those of maternal responsiveness/sensitivity (e.g., Meins et al 2001;Moran et al 2008). Autonomy support is one of those aspects of maternal behavior that has been shown to have unique contributions to child functioning, over and above maternal sensitivity (Bernier et al 2010;Bernier et al 2014).…”