The Significance of Insecure and Disorganized Attachment for Children's Internalizing Symptoms: A Meta-Analytic Study

This meta-analytic review examines the association between attachment and internalizing symptomatology during childhood, and compares the strength of this association with that for externalizing symptomatology. Based on 42 independent samples (N = 4,614), the association between insecurity and inter...

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Published in:Child development Vol. 83; no. 2; pp. 591 - 610
Main Authors: Groh, Ashley M., Roisman, Glenn I., van IJzendoorn, Marinus H., Bakermans-Kranenburg, Marian J., Fearon, R. Pasco
Format: Journal Article
Language:English
Published: Oxford, UK Blackwell Publishing Ltd 01.03.2012
Wiley-Blackwell
Subjects:
Adaptation, Psychological
Age
Age Factors
Anxiety disorders
Anxiety Disorders - diagnosis
Anxiety Disorders - psychology
Attachment
Attachment Behavior
Behavior Problems
Behavioural psychology
Biological and medical sciences
Child
Child Behavior Disorders - diagnosis
Child Behavior Disorders - psychology
Child development
Child psychopathology
Child, Preschool
Childhood
Children
Children & youth
Correlation
Correlation analysis
Defense Mechanisms
Depressive Disorder - diagnosis
Depressive Disorder - psychology
Depressive disorders
Developmental psychology
Emotions
EMPIRICAL ARTICLES
Externalizing behaviour
Female
Fundamental and applied biological sciences. Psychology
Humans
Insecurity
Internal-External Control
Internalization
Internalizing behaviour
Internalizing problems
Internalizing symptoms
Low socioeconomic status
Male
Meta Analysis
Personal relationships
Personality Assessment
Personality Disorders - diagnosis
Personality Disorders - psychology
Preschool education
Psychology. Psychoanalysis. Psychiatry
Psychology. Psychophysiology
Reactive Attachment Disorder - diagnosis
Reactive Attachment Disorder - psychology
Resistance
Security
Security (Psychology)
Social Behavior Disorders - diagnosis
Social Behavior Disorders - psychology
Somatoform Disorders - diagnosis
Somatoform Disorders - psychology
Statistics as Topic
Symptoms
Symptoms (Individual Disorders)
Human
Affect affectivity
Internalizing disorder
Review
Mother child relation
Metaanalysis
Behavioral disorder
Symptomatology
Affective attachment
Social interaction
Family environment
Mental disorder
Psychopathology
Safety
Child
ISSN:0009-3920, 1467-8624, 1467-8624
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Summary:This meta-analytic review examines the association between attachment and internalizing symptomatology during childhood, and compares the strength of this association with that for externalizing symptomatology. Based on 42 independent samples (N = 4,614), the association between insecurity and internalizing symptoms was small, yet significant (d = 0.15, CI 0.06~0.25) and not moderated by assessment age of internalizing problems. Avoidance, but not resistance (d = 0.03, CI - 0.11~0.17) or disorganization (d = 0.08, CI - 0.06~0.22), was significantly associated with internalizing symptoms (d = 0.17, CI 0.03~0.31). Insecurity and disorganization were more strongly associated with externalizing than internalizing symptoms. Discussion focuses on the significance of attachment for the development of internalizing versus externalizing symptomatology.
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The study was supported in part by a grant from the National Science Foundation to Glenn I. Roisman (BCS‐0720538). Support from the Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research to Marinus van IJzendoorn (NWO SPINOZA award) and to Marian Bakermans‐Kranenburg (NWO VIDI and VICI grants) is also gratefully acknowledged. We offer special thanks to David, Eve, and Ruth Goldberg, the children of Susan Goldberg, who granted permission to use requested data from
article in this meta‐analysis, as well as to all of the other investigators who were responsive to our requests for clarifications about their studies.
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ISSN:0009-3920
1467-8624
1467-8624
DOI:10.1111/j.1467-8624.2011.01711.x