Attachment States of Mind and the Quality of Young Adults' Sibling Relationships

Autor/inn/en	Fortuna, Keren; Roisman, Glenn I.; Haydon, Katherine C.; Groh, Ashley M.; Holland, Ashley S.
Titel	Attachment States of Mind and the Quality of Young Adults' Sibling Relationships
Quelle	In: Developmental Psychology, 47 (2011) 5, S.1366-1373 (8 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0012-1649
DOI	10.1037/a0024393
Schlagwörter	Siblings; Conflict; Sibling Relationship; Young Adults; Parent Child Relationship; Conflict Resolution; Late Adolescents; Attachment Behavior; Attitudes; Questionnaires; Video Technology; Negative Attitudes; Family Relationship; Adult Attachment Interview + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Sibling; Geschwister; Konflikt; Sibling relations; Geschwisterbeziehung; Young adult; Junger Erwachsener; Parents-child relationship; Parent-child-relation; Parent-child relationship; Eltern-Kind-Beziehung; Conflict solving; Konfliktlösung; Konfliktregelung; Halbstarker; Attachment; Bindungsverhalten; Attitude; Einstellung; Verhalten; Fragebogen; Negative Fixierung
Abstract	This report examines young adults' states of mind regarding their early attachment experiences in relation to the observed and perceived quality of their sibling relationships. Sixty sibling pairs (18-25 years of age) were (a) administered the Adult Attachment Interview (George, Kaplan, & Main, 1985), (b) videotaped during a conflict resolution task, and (c) asked to describe the quality of their relationship using the Adult Sibling Relationship Questionnaire (Stocker, Lanthier, & Furman, 1997). As hypothesized, dismissing states of mind were associated with lower levels of positive and negative affect while participants attempted to resolve an area of conflict with a sibling as well as with relatively low levels of reported warmth in the relationship. In contrast--but also in line with predictions--preoccupied states of mind were associated with heightened expression of negative affect toward a brother or sister, and the siblings of highly preoccupied individuals reported more conflict in their relationships. Findings provide further support for the importance of young adults' representations of childhood attachment experiences with respect to the quality of their adult relationships. In addition, this study extends previous findings regarding the significance of dismissing versus preoccupied states of mind by demonstrating that these dimensions are differentially associated with behavioral and self-reported aspects of sibling relationship quality in early adulthood. (Contains 2 tables.) (As Provided).
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Update	2017/4/10