| Mothers' attachment security predicts their children's sense of God's closeness. | |
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PMID: 23216392 Owner: NLM Status: In-Data-Review |
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The current research reports that mothers' security of attachment predicts their children's sense of God's closeness. A total of 71 mother-child dyads participated (children's M age = 7.5). Mothers' attachment organization was studied with the Adult Attachment Interview (AAI; Main, Goldwyn, & Hesse, 2003 ) and their religiosity and attachment to God were measured with questionnaires. Children were told stories about visually represented children in attachment-activating and attachment-neutral situations, and placed a God symbol on a felt board to represent God's closeness to the fictional children. Children of secure mothers placed the God symbol closer (d = .78) than children of insecure mothers across both types of situations, suggesting that children's experiences with secure-insecure mothers generalize to their sense of God's closeness. Also, girls (but not boys) placed the God symbol closer in attachment-activating than in attachment-neutral situations, giving partial support for an attachment normative God-as-safe-haven model. Finally, mothers' religiosity and attachment to God were unrelated to child outcomes. |
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Rosalinda Cassibba; Pehr Granqvist; Alessandro Costantini |
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Type: Journal Article |
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Title: Attachment & human development Volume: 15 ISSN: 1469-2988 ISO Abbreviation: Attach Hum Dev Publication Date: 2013 Jan |
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Created Date: 2012-12-10 Completed Date: - Revised Date: - |
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Nlm Unique ID: 100901315 Medline TA: Attach Hum Dev Country: England |
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Languages: eng Pagination: 51-64 Citation Subset: IM |
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a Department of Psychology , Bari University , Italy. |
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