Repetition of the remembered past: Patterns of separation–individuation in two generations of mothers and daughters.

Charles, Marilyn; Frank, Susan J.; Jacobson, Stacy; Grossman, Gail

doi:10.1037/0736-9735.18.4.705

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“…He also claims that research done by using the attachment-style questionnaire has done more to breathe empirical life into Bowlby's concept of the internal working model than has that carried out in the developmental tradition. Research on individuation and separation between mothers and daughters yielded the same conclusion, emphasizing the role of factors that cannot be detected in the attachment experimentation, but nevertheless strongly infl uence the positive outcome of the individuation process (Charles et al, 2001). The argument can therefore be made that the relationship between mothers and daughters, as measured in the attachment model, should not be interpreted in strict developmental terms; that is, as a starting point, uncontaminated source, or basis without hidden assumptions, but only as a limited fi eld of inquiry, exhibiting one aspect of affect regulation processes that in their essence prove to have considerable systemic and transgenerational ramifi cations.…”

Section: Mutual Affect As the Undifferentiated Affective Core Of Intimentioning

confidence: 78%

The idea of mutual affect

Erzar

2006

Appl Psychoanal Studies

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Section: Mutual Affect As the Undifferentiated Affective Core Of Intimentioning

confidence: 78%

The idea of mutual affect

Erzar

2006

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“…Psychological well-being and psycho-emotional health of a woman are strongly conjugated with the type of attitude she has toward her parents [ 19 , 40 , 41 ]. These relationships could become a relevant personal resource, enhancing the woman’s family identity and generational integrity, developing her understanding of life value and the inevitability of its end, and promoting the feeling of control over her own life.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…The anxiety related to the perception of the personal life path increases. The lack of separation from the maternal image causes protective behavior that is manifested through auto- and hetero-aggression (neurotic symptoms, defensive aggressive, and a method of metaphor analysis) [ 19 , 40 , 42 ].…”

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A Decrease in Psycho-Emotional Health in Middle-Aged Russian Women Associated with Their Lifestyle

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Voronina

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(1) Background: The present study is aimed to determine the predicting role of objective (lifestyle) and subjective factors of middle-aged women’s psycho-emotional health such as their relations with parents, attachment and separation types. Women who are overloaded with professional and family roles have high stress level, their indicators of psychological well-being and emotional level decrease when they have to give everyday care to their elderly parents. (2) Methods: The research sample has two empirical groups. Sample of Study 1 includes middle-aged women (n = 61) aged 38–56 (M = 48.1, SD = 3.5); sample of Study 2 includes middle-aged women (n = 85) aged 33–52 (M = 40.6, SD = 3.1): married (70.5%) and divorced (29.5%), having children of 14–28 years old; giving everyday care to elderly parents for more than 1.5 yrs. Some live separately (62.3 %), or have to cohabitate with parents (37.7%). All women evaluate their life situation as difficult and manifest signs of high psycho-emotional stress. We used methods adapted for the Russian-speaking sample: getting socio-demographic information, an interview; The scales of psychological well-being; Attachment style and Interpersonal Guilt Questionnaires (study 1); Psychological Separation Inventory, Purpose-in-Life Test, projective methods (study 2), mathematical statistics. (3) Results: A number of factors and indicators of women’s psycho-emotional health decrease in the situation of role overload have been identified. Among the factors there are four main types of women’s relationships with parents: Anxious closeness; Ambivalence of feelings; Secondary relationship with parents; Alienation, predicting of psycho-emotional health that are reducing or enhancing their personal resources. Besides, a type of separation of an adult woman from her mother predicts her level of well-being. (4) Conclusions: The study confirms that middle-aged Russian women’s psycho-emotional health depends on contextual factors (difficult role-overloaded lifestyle) and factors integrating women‘s relations towards parents, attachment, guilt and separation. Types of middle-aged women’s relationships with parents contribute to their psychoemotional health in a different way.

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“…The mother-daughter relationship has been emphasized across the literature as the first major relationship that a daughter has (Charles, Frank, Jacobson, & Grossman, 2001;Chodorow, 1978Chodorow, , 2002Kitamura & Muto, 2001;Klockars & Sirola, 2001). Infancy is the key period during which mother-daughter attachment bonds take shape (Klockars & Sirola, 2001;Poehlmann & Fiese, 2001;Teti, 2000).…”

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The Transmission of Birth Stories from Mother to Daughter: Self-Esteem and Mother–Daughter Attachment

2006

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Sixty-two daughters provided narratives of their births and completed measures of self-esteem and motherdaughter attachment. Thirty-three of their mothers provided independent accounts of the births. Daughters who had heard the stories of their births more times wrote more descriptive and positive accounts and showed higher selfesteem and stronger attachment to their mothers than daughters who had heard the stories less often. Positivity of the mothers' narratives was correlated with daughters' self-esteem while descriptiveness of the mothers' narratives was correlated with daughters' levels of mother-daughter attachment. Raters blind to the identity of mothers and daughters made more successful matches between mothers' and daughters' stories for daughters with higher self-esteem and attachment.Keywords Birth stories . Narrative identity . Self-esteem . Mother-daughter attachment At the core of identity formation are the narrative memories that we recall from our lives (McAdams, 2001;Singer, 2004). We tell these narratives about ourselves in order to express and define who we are (Nelson, 2003). Not only do narrative memories provide a medium for self-expression and identity formation, but they also offer a way to make sense of the events in our lives. A narrative's structure can provide order, coherence, and meaning to life experiences

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Repetition of the remembered past: Patterns of separation–individuation in two generations of mothers and daughters.

Cited by 17 publications

References 27 publications

The idea of mutual affect

The idea of mutual affect

A Decrease in Psycho-Emotional Health in Middle-Aged Russian Women Associated with Their Lifestyle

The Transmission of Birth Stories from Mother to Daughter: Self-Esteem and Mother–Daughter Attachment

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