Through Colombian lenses: ethnographic and conventional analyses of maternal care and their associations with secure base behavior

Developmental Psychology
German PosadaSandra J Plata

Abstract

According to attachment theory, the quality of care plays a key role in the organization of infants' secure base behavior across contexts and cultures. Yet information about attachment relationships in a variety of cultures is scarce, and questions remain as to whether Ainsworth's conceptualization of early care quality (sensitivity; M. D. S. Ainsworth, M. C. Blehar, E. Waters, & S. Wall, 1978) is appropriate for characterizing caregiving behavior in different groups and whether culturally specific descriptions of early care are related to conventional measures of maternal sensitivity and to infants' security. In this naturalistic study of mother-infant interactions in Colombia, scores on different domains of maternal care were obtained through ethnographic methodology, and conventional Q-sort scores for maternal and infant behavior were obtained. Findings are discussed in terms of the cross-cultural generality of the sensitivity construct and the sensitivity-security link and of the relevance of naturalistic open-ended studies in different contexts.

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Citations

Dec 5, 2013·Attachment & Human Development·Germán Posada
Jan 18, 2008·Journal of Marital and Family Therapy·Germán Posada, Dawn Marie Pratt
Feb 6, 2020·Journal of Reproductive and Infant Psychology·Özlü AranNebi Sümer
Sep 25, 2019·Journal of Marital and Family Therapy·Angela L LamsonSuzanne Lazorick
Nov 29, 2016·Psychoanalytic Review·Mauricio Cortina
Oct 7, 2017·Frontiers in Psychology·Francis A CarneiroPedro A Costa
Dec 7, 2018·Monographs of the Society for Research in Child Development·Germán E Posada, Harriet S Waters
Dec 7, 2018·Monographs of the Society for Research in Child Development·Germán E Posada, Harriet S Waters
Jan 1, 2011·Infancy : the Official Journal of the International Society on Infant Studies·Theodore D WachsPinar Gurkas

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