Cognitive and Physiological Mediators of the Link Between Maternal Attachment and Self-Reported Responses to Child Distress

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dc.contributor.advisorCassidy, Jude Aen_US
dc.contributor.authorBrett, Bonnie Erinen_US
dc.contributor.departmentPsychologyen_US
dc.contributor.publisherDigital Repository at the University of Marylanden_US
dc.contributor.publisherUniversity of Maryland (College Park, Md.)en_US
dc.date.accessioned2014-02-12T06:32:04Z
dc.date.available2014-02-12T06:32:04Z
dc.date.issued2013en_US
dc.description.abstractGiven recent evidence that caregivers' responses to their children's distress are predictive of a host of child outcomes, the goal of the present study was to examine attachment related differences in maternal responses to child distress. In addition, I examined whether the link between maternal attachment and maternal responses to child distress was mediated by maternal negative attribution biases about infant distress and maternal electrodermal reactivity in the context of infant distress. Path analyses revealed that (a) maternal attachment-related anxiety was positively related to maternal distress reactions to child distress, (b) that maternal negative attribution biases were negatively related to supportive maternal responses, and (c) that maternal electrodermal reactivity was positively linked with unsupportive maternal responses. These findings advance the literature on the maternal characteristics associated with supportive and unsupportive maternal responses to child distress.en_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1903/14960
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.subject.pqcontrolledPsychologyen_US
dc.subject.pqcontrolledDevelopmental psychologyen_US
dc.subject.pqcontrolledSocial psychologyen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledAttachmenten_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledAttributionsen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledParentingen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledPhysiologyen_US
dc.titleCognitive and Physiological Mediators of the Link Between Maternal Attachment and Self-Reported Responses to Child Distressen_US
dc.typeThesisen_US

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