Les représentations d’attachement chez les adolescents adoptés et leurs parents

Molina, Paola; Casonato, Marta; Ongari, Barbara; De-Carli, Alessandro Diogo

doi:10.1016/j.neurenf.2015.04.004

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“…Several studies stressed that in adoptive families the quality of parent–child attachment relationships may represent a corrective experience with a positive impact on adopted children's adjustment, thus decreasing the onset of behaviour problems (Beijersbergen, Juffer, Bakermans‐Kranenburg, & van IJzendoorn, ; Lionetti, ; Molina, Casonato, Ongari, & Decarli, ; Pace, Di Folco, Guerriero, Santona, & Terrone, ; Pace, D'Onofrio, Guerriero, & Zavattini, ; Piermattei, Pace, Tambelli, D'Onofrio, & Di Folco, ; Steele et al, ; Steele, Hodges, Kaniuk, Hillman, & Henderson, ; Steele, Hodges, Kaniuk, & Steele, ; Steele, Hodges, Kaniuk, & Steele, ; van der Voort et al, ).…”

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“…In our previous study on 46 late‐adopted adolescents and their mothers, a significant concordance between mothers and adolescents' secure/insecure attachment classifications was found (Pace et al, ). Finally, a study with a sample of 27 adoptive families showed that the presence of both maternal and paternal secure attachment representations corresponds to a more secure attachment presentation in adopted children (Molina et al, ). Higher scores in parental security correspond to higher parental competences in adoptive couples (Pace, Santona, Zavattini, & Di Folco, ; Pace, Santona, Zavattini, & Di Folco, ), which in turn were correlated to secure attachment in adolescents.…”

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Late‐adoptions in adolescence: Can attachment and emotion regulation influence behaviour problems? A controlled study using a moderation approach

Pace

Folco

Guerriero

2017

Clin Psychology and Psychoth

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A growing body of research suggests that, compared to normative adolescence, adoptive adolescence could be considered a specific risk condition characterized by more psychiatric problems, attachment insecurity, and emotional regulation difficulties as consequences of negative experiences in preadoption relationships. The current study explores (a) a moderation model of adoption status on the association between attachment representations (secure, dismissing, preoccupied, and disorganized) and behavioural problems and (b) a moderation model of adoption status on the association between emotion regulation processes (cognitive reappraisal and expressive suppression) and behavioural problems. Both the moderation models were controlled for verbal skills. Forty-six adopted adolescents and a control group of 34 nonadopted peers (12-16 years old) living with both their biological parents were assessed using the Friends and Family Interview, the Emotion Regulation Questionnaire for Children and Adolescents, the Child Behaviour Check List 6-18, and the verbal subtests of the Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children, the latter as control measure. Results showed that adoption status (but not attachment) positively predicted externalizing and total behaviour problems, whereas attachment disorganization (but not adoption status) positively predicted internalizing problems in both group. Moreover, low cognitive reappraisal had a negative impact on externalizing problems only for adopted adolescents, but not for nonadopted youths. The clinical implications of these findings are discussed in order to enhance effective intervention with adopted adolescents and their parents.

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Late‐adoptions in adolescence: Can attachment and emotion regulation influence behaviour problems? A controlled study using a moderation approach

Pace

Folco

Guerriero

2017

Clin Psychology and Psychoth

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“…The results showed that lower levels of maternal but not paternal reflective functioning (RF) were associated with higher child anxiety. A third study on a group of adopted adolescents, showed a strong relation between maternal RF, assessed with the PDI and child's attachment (Molina et al 2015). In a fourth study, researchers administered the PDI to a sample of parents, which mainly included mothers (Borelli et al 2016).…”

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Mental Health and Well-Being in Adolescence: The Role of Child Attachment and Parental Reflective Functioning

De-Carli¹,

Pierrehumbert

Schulz

et al. 2022

Wohlbefinden Und Gesundheit Im Jugendalter

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Adolescence is a sensitive developmental period, with important changes occurring at biological, cognitive, emotional and social levels. As evidenced by several studies, adolescence is also a vulnerable period for the onset of serious mental disorders, which then tend to persist into adulthood. While there is ample evidence concerning risk factors of mental disorders in adolescence, a lot less is known about protective factors: however, one important protective factor to have emerged from recent research concerns attachment security. The aim of the current paper is to explore the effects of attachment on emotion regulation (in terms of physiological reactivity), autonomy and relatedness, and behavioral problems in adolescence, and how attachment is in turn influenced by parental reflective functioning (PRF), parenting behaviors (operationalized in terms of behaviors promoting and undermining autonomy relatedness) and parenting stress (in terms of cortisol reactivity). The findings point to the potential utility of interventions aimed at enhancing attachment security, thus allowing a better psychological adjustment, and at improving PRF, especially in divorced families, given its protective effect on parenting stress and parenting behaviors.

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“…Some adoption studies extended their investigation to adolescence, reporting results that do not completely match those in childhood (Beijersbergen, Juffer, Bakermans-Kranenburg, & van IJzendoorn, 2012;Escobar & Santelices, 2013;Groza & Muntean, 2016;Molina, Casonato, Ongari, & Decarli, 2015;Vorria, Ntouma, & Rutter, 2015). Adopted adolescents who were assessed using attachment interviews showed secure attachment representations between 32% and 63%, and only two studies reported disorganized classifications (6 to 8%, Molina et al, 2015;Vorria et al, 2015).…”

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“…Pace and colleagues (Pace, Di Folco, Guerriero, Santona & Terrone, 2015) found a significant concordance of 70% (two-ways, p = .04) and 61% (four-ways, p = .08) in attachment representations between 46 late-adopted adolescents, assessed with…., and their mothers, assessed with …... Two studies from the Attachment and Adoption Research Network (AARN) reported significant concordances between secure IWMs in 90 adolescents, assessed with the FFI?, and positive and coherent attachment representations in parents, assessed with the AAI? (Groza & Muntean, 2016;Molina et al, 2015).…”

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Late-adopted children grown up: a long-term longitudinal study on attachment patterns of adolescent adoptees and their adoptive mothers

Pace

Folco

Guerriero

et al. 2019

Attachment & Human Development

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This paper reports on a long-term follow-up of a longitudinal study conducted in Italy that assessed attachment patterns of late-adopted children (placed between 4 and 8 years old) and their adoptive mothers, in three phases: T1, at placement; T2, in childhood (7 to 8 months after adoption); and T3, in adolescence (current study). The following hypotheses were tested: 1) children' IWMs will shift from insecurity towards security in a long-term followup; and 2) there will be a significant association between adoptees' and adoptive mothers' IWMs in adolescence. Participants were 22 late-adopted adolescents (aged 11-16) and their adoptive mothers, all assessed in previous phases. Participants completed several measures of attachment, including the Separation-Reunion Procedure (T1, T2), Manchester Child Attachment Story Task (T2), Friends and Family Interview (T3), and Adult Attachment Interview (T1, T3). Late-adopted adolescents showed both an increase in attachment security and a decrease in disorganized attachment from childhood to adolescence. Adoptive mothers' (T1 and/or T3?) secure states of mind were associated significantly(?) to their adopted children attachment security in adolescence. These findings reinforce the importance of taking attachment into account for adoptive families from the beginning of adoption.

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Les représentations d’attachement chez les adolescents adoptés et leurs parents

Cited by 8 publications

References 14 publications

Late‐adoptions in adolescence: Can attachment and emotion regulation influence behaviour problems? A controlled study using a moderation approach

Late‐adoptions in adolescence: Can attachment and emotion regulation influence behaviour problems? A controlled study using a moderation approach

Mental Health and Well-Being in Adolescence: The Role of Child Attachment and Parental Reflective Functioning

Late-adopted children grown up: a long-term longitudinal study on attachment patterns of adolescent adoptees and their adoptive mothers

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