Development of attachment orientations in response to childbirth: A longitudinal dyadic perspective.
(2016) the BAPS meeting — Location: Antwerpen, Belgium (24.May.2016)
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- The aim of the current study was to investigate the influence of childbirth on parents’ attachment orientations. A three-wave longitudinal research program (during the second trimester of pregnancy, at 6 months postpartum, and at 1 year postpartum) using a multilevel modeling framework and the Actor-Partner Interdependence Model has been conducted on 150 parental couples (M = 30.38 years old) with parental group, i.e. primiparous (first-time) or multiparous (given birth for a second or more times) parents, as a time-invariant predictor and the partner’s attachment development as a time-varying covariate. Results showed that parents’ attachment orientations were stable. Moreover, when facing childbirth, mothers and fathers tended to follow the same developmental trajectory, and hence to function in dyad. The discussion underlined the stability of attachment orientations over time and the importance of the dyadic perspective in understanding the childbirth experience.
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Galdiolo, S. (2016). Development of attachment orientations in response to childbirth: A longitudinal dyadic perspective. the BAPS meeting, Antwerpen, Belgium. https://hdl.handle.net/2078.5/68995