The Secure-Base Phenomenon across Cultures: Children's Behavior, Mothers' Preferences, and Experts' Concepts

Abstract

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The organization of children's secure base behaviour in two-parent Portuguese families and father's participation in child-related activities

“…The AQS measures the organization of the child secure base behaviour in the presence of the mother, or other attachment figure, in ecologically valid contexts (Vaughn & Waters, 1990). The secure base behaviour is characterized in terms of its organization in these contexts (Posada et al, 1995a). The AQS provides a detailed description of the child's attachment behaviour and has been used to document both changes and continuities in the development of attachment relationships (Verı´ssimo, Blicharsky, Strayer, & Santos, 1995).…”

Mastery Motivation and Secure Attachment among Preschool Children in the Light of Depending on Domestic Workers in the Saudi Society

“…Even when attachment was studied comparatively on several cultures, some belongs to eastern context, and the other to the western context (for example : Posada et al, 1995), in relation to mother concepts about secure attachment, they found great proximity between members of these cultures, in relation to this concept. Although there is differences between cultures in considering the space of freedom permeated to their members in both eastern and western cultures, or in other word, individual and collective cultures (Moneta, 2004), and the actual existence of partnership in child care with other helper in the eastern culture compared to the western culture (at least theoretically or ideally according to the view of each culture, this does not eliminate the idea of the mother as being the first caregiver of her youngsters, and as a result, she is the first person whom the child is attached with.…”

“…(Lounds et al, 2005). A few empirical approaches for assessing attachment (which includes behaviors) across cultures, didn't reflect the potential concept of culture, For example, Posada et al (1995) who compared experts and mothers in China, Colombia, Germany, Israel, Japan, and U.S.A., in their definition of secure attachment according to attachment Q-sort description. The result shows that concepts of both experts and mothers across cultures on attachment were approximate.…”

Envolvimento paterno e organização dos comportamentos de base segura das crianças em famílias portuguesas

“…VERSÃO 3.0 DE WATERS (1995) O AQS avalia a organização do comportamento de base segura da criança, definido como a organização harmoniosa e o equilíbrio adequado entre a procura de proximidade e a exploração do meio (Posada, Goa, Wu, Posada, Tascon et al, 1995), face à mãe ou a outras figuras, em contexto ecologicamente válido. Este é um instrumento de classificação e observação sistemática, baseada na metodologia do Q-Sort, sendo preenchido através da atribuição de itens a categorias, utilizando uma distribuição fixa.…”