Latent classes in preschoolers' internal working models of attachment and emotional security: Roles of family risk.

ABSTRACT: Children's relationships inform their internal working models (IWMs) of the world around them. Attachment and emotional security theory (EST) emphasize the importance of parent-child and interparental relationships, respectively, for IWM. The current study examined (a) data-driven classes in child attachment and emotional security IWM, (b) associations between IWM classes and demographic variables, maltreatment, intimate partner violence (IPV), and maternal depressive symptoms, and (c) consistency in attachment and emotional security IWM classes, including as a function of maltreatment, IPV, and maternal depressive symptoms. Participants were 234 preschool-aged children (n = 152 experienced maltreatment and n = 82 had not experienced maltreatment) and their mothers. Children

SUBMITTER: Speidel R 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9547040 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature