| Автор | Atkinson, Leslie |
| Автор | Leung, Eman |
| Автор | Goldberg, Susan |
| Автор | Benoit, Diane |
| Автор | Poulton, Lori |
| Автор | Myhal, Natalie |
| Автор | Blokland, Kirsten |
| Автор | Kerr, Sheila |
| Дата выпуска | 2009 |
| dc.description | AbstractAlthough central to attachment theory, internal working models remain a useful heuristic in need of concretization. We compared the selective attention of organized and disorganized mothers using the emotional Stroop task. Both disorganized attachment and emotional Stroop response involve the coordination of strongly conflicting motivations under conditions of emotional arousal. Furthermore, much is known about the cognitive and neuromodulatory correlates of the Stroop that may inform attempts to substantiate the internal working model construct. We assessed 47 community mothers with the Adult Attachment Interview and the Working Model of the Child Interview in the third trimester of pregnancy. At 6 and 12 months postpartum, we assessed mothers with emotional Stroop tasks involving neutral, attachment, and emotion conditions. At 12 months, we observed their infants in the Strange Situation. Results showed that: disorganized attachment is related to relative Stroop reaction time, that is, unlike organized mothers, disorganized mothers respond to negative attachment/emotion stimuli more slowly than to neutral stimuli; relative speed of response is positively related to number of times the dyad was classified disorganized, and change in relative Stroop response time from 6 to 12 months is related to the match-mismatch status of mother and infant attachment classifications. We discuss implications in terms of automatic and controlled processing and, more specifically, cognitive threat tags, parallel distributed processing, and neuromodulation through norepenephrine and dopamine. |
| Формат | application.pdf |
| Издатель | Cambridge University Press |
| Копирайт | Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2009 |
| Название | Attachment and selective attention: Disorganization and emotional Stroop reaction time |
| Тип | research-article |
| DOI | 10.1017/S0954579409000078 |
| Electronic ISSN | 1469-2198 |
| Print ISSN | 0954-5794 |
| Журнал | Development and Psychopathology |
| Том | 21 |
| Первая страница | 99 |
| Последняя страница | 126 |
| Аффилиация | Atkinson Leslie; University of Toronto |
| Аффилиация | Leung Eman; University of Toronto |
| Аффилиация | Goldberg Susan; University of Toronto |
| Аффилиация | Benoit Diane; University of Toronto |
| Аффилиация | Poulton Lori; University of Toronto |
| Аффилиация | Myhal Natalie; University of Toronto |
| Аффилиация | Blokland Kirsten; University of Toronto |
| Аффилиация | Kerr Sheila; Technolog, Inc |
| Выпуск | 1 |
