Patterns of attachment in two- and three-year-olds in normal families and families with parental XXXX .

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Patterns of attachment were examined in normal and @entity308 mothers. Mother's diagnosis (bipolar, major @entity308 , or no @entity146 ), self-reported current mood states, and affective behavior in interaction with the @entity1 were considered. A modified version of Ainsworth and Wittig's Strange Situation was used to assess attachment. Insecure (A, C, and A/C patterns) attachments were more common among @entity1 of mothers with a @entity308 ( @entity162 ) than among @entity1 of mothers with minor @entity308 or among @entity1 of normal mothers. Insecure attachment was more frequent in @entity1 of mothers with @entity162 than in @entity1 of mothers with @entity308 . A/C attachments were associated with histories of most severe @entity308 in the mother. In families in which mothers were @entity308 , @entity308 in the father did not increase the likelihood of anxious attachment between mother and @entity1 . However, if mothers with a @entity18822 were without a husband in the household, risk of an insecure mother- @entity1 attachment was significantly increased. The mothers' @entity5785 (positive vs. negative) in interaction with their @entity1 in situations other than the Strange Situation, and independent of diagnosis, predicted patterns of attachment: mothers of insecurely attached @entity1 expressed more negative and less positive emotion. Mothers' self-reports of moods on the days they were observed were unrelated to attachment. Results are discussed in terms of the transmission of @entity4670 in relation to mothers' affective functioning.
