Relation of preterm birth with quality of infant—mother attachment at one year

Wille, Diane E.

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“…However, the relation between attachment and prematurity remains inconclusive in the literature. More insecure attachment among premature infants has been observed when combined with a low SES (Wille, 1991), when considering perinatal medical condition (Plunkett, Meisels, Stiefel, Pasick, & Roloff, 1986) or when controlling for chronological age with a full-term sample (Mangelsdorf, Plunkett, Dedrick, Mchale, & Dichtellmiller, 1996). However, as conditions in NICU care have changed considerably over the last 15 to 20 years, infant-mother separations are less frequent; therefore, these results should be considered with caution.…”

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Quality of attachment, perinatal risk, and mother–infant interaction in a high‐risk premature sample

Udry-Jørgensen¹,

Pierrehumbert²,

Borghini³

et al. 2011

Infant Mental Health Journal

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Thirty-three families, each with a premature infant born less than 33 gestational weeks, were observed in a longitudinal exploratory study. Infants were recruited in a neonatal intensive care unit, and follow-up visits took place at 4 months and 12 months of corrected age. The severity of the perinatal problems was evaluated using the Perinatal Risk Inventory (PERI; A.P. Scheiner & M.E. Sexton, 1991). At 4 months, mother-infant play interaction was observed and coded according to the CARE-index (P.M. Crittenden, 2003); at 12 months, the Strange Situation Procedure (SSP; M.D.S. Ainsworth, M.C. Blehar, E. Waters, & S. Wall, 1978) was administered. Results indicate a strong correlation between the severity of perinatal problems and the quality of attachment at 12 months. Based on the PERI, infants with high medical risks more frequently tended to be insecurely attached. There also was a significant correlation between insecure attachment and dyadic play interaction at 4 months (i.e., maternal controlling behavior and infant compulsive compliance). Moreover, specific dyadic interactive patterns could be identified as protective or as risk factors regarding the quality of attachment. Considering that attachment may have long-term influence on child development, these results underline the need for particular attention to risk factors regarding attachment among premature infants.

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Quality of attachment, perinatal risk, and mother–infant interaction in a high‐risk premature sample

Udry-Jørgensen¹,

Pierrehumbert²,

Borghini³

et al. 2011

Infant Mental Health Journal

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“…An alternative Interpretation of the present data may emphasize the disturbing effect of an anxious attachment relationship on mothers' mental health or caregiving behavior. Since in some cases there is also evidence of an increase in child risk L A recent case in point is a study by Wille (1991) comparing preterm and full-term infants where the percent of B cases is decreased in the preterm groups (44%) but the percent of B cases is also increased in the full-term group (83%). Unfortunately, these data did not become available after the analyses had all been done.…”

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The Relative Effects of Maternal and Child Problems on the Quality of Attachment: A Meta-Analysis of Attachment in Clinical Samples

IJzendoorn¹,

Goldberg²,

Kroonenberg³

et al. 1992

Child Development

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. In this meta-analysis of 34 clinical studies on attachment the hypothesis is tested that maternal problems such äs mental illness lead to more deviating attachment classification distributions than child Problems such äs deafness. A correspondence analysis on 21 North American studies with normal subjects produced a baseline against which the clinical samples could be evaluated. Separate analyses were carried out on studies containing the traditional A, B, C classifications and on studies that also included the recently discovered D or A/C category. Results show that groups with a primary identification of maternal problems show attachment classiflcation distributions highly divergent from the normal distributions, whereas groups with a primary identification of child problems show distributions that are similar to the distributions of normal samples. The introduction of the D or A/C classifications (about 15% in normal samples) reveals an overrepresentation of D or A/C in the child problem groups, but the resulting distribution still is much closer to the normal distributions compared to the samples with maternal problems. In clinical samples, the mother appears to play a more important role than the child in shaping the quality of the infant-mother attachment relationship.The Strange Situation and its associated classification scheme (Ainsworth, Blehar, Waters, & Wall, 1978;Ainsworth & Wittig, 1969) have been the basis of a major body of research on parent-infant relationships. While there are many approaches to the study of parent-infant relationships, the studies relevant for the present paper are those based on the attachment construct äs described by Ainsworth (Ainsworth et al., 1978) and derived from Bowlby's more general concepts of attachment (Bowlby, 1971). A large number of studies of the antecedents and sequelae of attachment classified on the basis of behavior in the Strange Situation (see Bretherton, 1985, for a review) lend credibility to this procedure äs a standardized validated paradigm for assessing infant-mother attachment in this conceptual framework.This study was supported in part by a PIONEER grant from the Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research (NWO) to Marinus H. van IJzendoorn, who is grateful to David G. P. van IJzendoorn for his (non-)verbal comments on earlier drafts of this paper. The idea of a metaanalysis on clinical samples originated with Oded Frenkel and Susan Goldberg. The contributions of Susan Goldberg and Marinus van IJzendoorn are equal. We are grateful to the anonymous reviewers for their comments on an earlier draft of this paper. Requests for reprints should be sent to Marinus H. van

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“…In relatively healthy infants from educated middle-class samples, premature birth is not typically associated with a higher rate of attachment insecurity (Easterbrooks 1989;Frodi and Thompson 1985). However, when samples are characterized by additional risk factors such as low socioeconomic status (Wille 1991), low maternal education (Pederson and Moran 1996), comorbid infant health problems (Plunkett et al 1986), or maternal depression (Hagen 2002;Poehlmann and Fiese 2001), the association of risk factors affects development in more negative and complex ways than each isolated risk condition. According to this reasoning, we expect that middle SES dyads with full-term babies would have the highest rate of maternal sensitivity and infant cooperation compared with the other three conditions and that dyads with one risk factor would have higher sensitivity and cooperation scores than dyads with two risk factors (i.e., low SES dyads with a premature baby).…”

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Developmental and evolutionary assumptions in a study about the impact of premature birth and low income on mother–infant interaction

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In order to study the impact of premature birth and low income on mother-infant interaction, four Portuguese samples were gathered: full-term, middle-class (n=99); premature, middle-class (n=63); full-term, low income (n=22); and premature, low income (n=21). Infants were filmed in a free play situation with their mothers, and the results were scored using the CARE Index. By means of multinomial regression analysis, social economic status (SES) was found to be the best predictor of maternal sensitivity and infant cooperative behavior within a set of medical and social factors. Contrary to the expectations of the cumulative risk perspective, two factors of risk (premature birth together with low SES) were as negative for mother-infant interaction as low SES solely. In this study, as previous studies have shown, maternal sensitivity and infant cooperative behavior were highly correlated, as was maternal control with infant compliance. Our results further indicate that, when maternal lack of responsiveness is high, the infant displays passive behavior, whereas when the maternal lack of responsiveness is medium, the infant displays difficult behavior. Indeed, our findings suggest that, in these cases, the link between types of maternal and infant interactive behavior is more dependent on the degree of maternal lack of responsiveness than it is on birth status or SES. The results will be discussed under a developmental and evolutionary reasoning.

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Relation of preterm birth with quality of infant—mother attachment at one year

Cited by 76 publications

References 19 publications

Quality of attachment, perinatal risk, and mother–infant interaction in a high‐risk premature sample

Quality of attachment, perinatal risk, and mother–infant interaction in a high‐risk premature sample

The Relative Effects of Maternal and Child Problems on the Quality of Attachment: A Meta-Analysis of Attachment in Clinical Samples

Developmental and evolutionary assumptions in a study about the impact of premature birth and low income on mother–infant interaction

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