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  • The study examined how specific maternal behaviors influence the transmission of attachment styles from mothers to children, focusing on attachment and exploration systems.
  • Four home visits were conducted with 130 mother-child pairs, assessing factors like maternal attachment mindset, sensitivity, and support for children's autonomy.
  • Findings revealed that maternal sensitivity and autonomy support are crucial in explaining the relationship between maternal and child attachment, indicating that enhancing these behaviors could improve attachment security in children.

Article Abstract

This report aimed to investigate the capacity of maternal behaviors tailored to children's attachment and exploration systems to jointly explain the well-known mother-child transmission of attachment. Four home visits were conducted between ages 7 months and 2 years with 130 mother-child dyads to assess maternal attachment state of mind, sensitivity, autonomy support, and mother-child attachment security. Results showed that together, maternal sensitivity and autonomy support fully accounted for the relation between maternal and child attachment, that they each accounted for a unique portion of this relation, and that the magnitude of these mediated pathways was equivalent. These results suggest that the attachment transmission gap can be narrowed by the use of a theory-driven multidimensional approach to maternal behavior.

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