Received sensitivity: adapting Ainsworth's scale to capture sensitivity in a multiple-caregiver context

Attachment & Human Development
Judi MesmanAndrei Angnged

Abstract

A network of multiple caregivers contributing to the care of an infant is the norm in many non-Western cultural contexts. Current observational measures of caregiver sensitive responsiveness to infant signals focus on single caregivers, failing to capture the total experience of the infant when it comes to the sensitive responsiveness received from multiple sources. The current paper aims to introduce the construct of received sensitivity that captures the sensitivity that an infant experiences from multiple sources in cultural contexts where simultaneous multiple caregiving is common. The paper further presents an adaptation of Ainsworth's Sensitivity versus Insensitivity observation scale to allow for the assessment of sensitivity as received by the infant regardless of who is providing the sensitive responses to its signals. The potential usefulness of the Received Sensitivity scale is illustrated by two case studies of infants from an Agta forager community in the Philippines where infants are routinely taken care of by multiple caregivers. The case studies show that the infants' total experience of being responded to sensitively cannot be simply derived from the sum of individual caregiver sensitivity scores, demonstrating...Continue Reading

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Nov 5, 2016·Attachment & Human Development·Haatembo MooyaMarian Bakermans-Kranenburg
Mar 24, 2018·Attachment & Human Development·Ross A Thompson
Mar 28, 2018·Attachment & Human Development·Katherine FourmentJudi Mesman
Jan 30, 2018·Attachment & Human Development·Kristin BernardOliver Lindhiem
Apr 30, 2019·Monographs of the Society for Research in Child Development·Brenda L VollingJeffrey T Cookston
Oct 1, 2020·Attachment & Human Development·Ross A Thompson
Oct 3, 2020·Attachment & Human Development·Judi MesmanJoseph Misati
Mar 1, 2019·Monographs of the Society for Research in Child Development·Elizabeth KarbergCatherine Kuhns
Sep 29, 2018·The South African Journal of Psychiatry : SAJP : the Journal of the Society of Psychiatrists of South Africa·Nicola K Dawson
Mar 23, 2018·Attachment & Human Development·Judi MesmanJoseph Misati
Aug 14, 2019·Monographs of the Society for Research in Child Development·Mark E FeinbergDavid Almeida
Oct 16, 2020·Attachment & Human Development·Katherine FourmentJudi Mesman
Mar 27, 2021·Development and Psychopathology·Peter FonagyPatrick Luyten
Sep 17, 2021·Infant Mental Health Journal·Carlos PitillasJudi Mesman

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