Celia Hsiao
Graduate Program in Psychology
The School of Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies
The University of Western Ontario
London, Ontario, Canada
© Celia Hsiao 2011
Mother-child emotion dialogues represent an integral medium through which
children’s autobiography develops. This study sought to understand the developmental
origins and processes underlying this co-construction process by examining the interrelations between: mother-infant attachment relationships, maternal attachment
representations, maternal sensitivity during interactions in infancy, maternal affective
mindset during toddlerhood, and mother-child emotion dialogues.
Our findings are consistent with past research on the links between the three
organized categories of mother-infant attachment relationships and later mother-child
emotion dialogues. Children in disorganized attachment relationships were found to
display a lack of consistent and coherent strategy during emotion communication with
their mothers. Our results also emphasize the important role of maternal state of mind
with regards to attachment in shaping emotion dialogues. Autonomous mothers coconstructed emotionally integrated and coherent narratives with their children, while nonautonomousmothers created stories that were less emotionally attuned and narratively
organized; furthermore, the unresolved/ disoriented classification was found to be
unrelated to mother-child emotion discourse. Finally, a mismatch in infant attachment
and maternal attachment representation was associated with a mismatch in
communication style during dyads’ shared conversations.
While we failed to find support for the suggestion of maternal sensitivity and affective mindset as mediating the link between maternal attachment representation and affective mindset, we did find preliminary evidence of a moderating process. That is,autonomous mothers exhibiting unexpectedly low levels of sensitivity during infancy tended to engage in dialogues that were less emotionally integrated and coherent.
This study highlights the importance of maternal attachment representation in
how emotion-laden memories are recalled, interpreted, and verbalized. Results are
discussed in light of their implications for future work.
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