scholarly journals How Good It Would Be to Turn Back Time: Adult Attachment and Perfectionism in Mothers and Their Relationships with the Processes of Parental Identity Formation

2020 ◽  
Vol 60 (1) ◽  
pp. 55 ◽  
Author(s):  
Konrad Piotrowski
2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Konrad Piotrowski

In the present study the relationships between dimensions of parental identity (commitment, in-depth exploration, reconsideration of commitment), romantic adult attachment (anxiety and avoidance in a relationship) and perfectionism (self-oriented, other-oriented, and socially prescribed) were analyzed. 206 mothers aged 22 to 40 participated in the study (M = 33.33, SD = 3.68). The results revealed that both adult attachment and perfectionism correlate with parental identity. In particular, attachment-related anxiety and other-oriented perfectionism can be treated as independent, specific predictors of an increased crisis of parental identity, manifested in low identification with the role of the parent and in regret of becoming one. The article discusses theoretical and practical implications of the research and suggestions for further studies.


2018 ◽  
Vol 45 ◽  
pp. 217-244
Author(s):  
Jowita Wycisk Jowita Wycisk

Development of the contemporary post-industrial society entails the increasing diversity of family life models. People, making individual choices in this field, face new challenges related to identity formation. In the text presented this issue is discussed on the example of women bringing up children in same-sex relationships. The article presents basic information on the same-sex parenting, underlines the importance of the idea of identity integration in psychology and stresses the lack of contiguity between theories of parental identity development and these ones of homosexual and bisexual identity development. An extensive discussion of the Vivienne Cass’s theory of sexual orientation identity development is the basis for the approximation of potential discrepancies in the identity system of non-heterosexual women taking parental roles. Two main factors relevant to the processes of identity formation were distinguished: the order of the development of the sexual orientation identity and parental identity (the planned and reconstructed families differ in this regard) and the way of establishing and maintaining the relationship with the child (other challenges are faced by biological and social mothers). In the summary, questions requiring future empirical exploration were notified.


2017 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 249-280
Author(s):  
Nurhayati Nurhayati ◽  
Ratna Sari Dewi ◽  
Eero Ropo ◽  
Pekka Räihä

This study aimed to explore how adolescents performed towards their identity as learners in Sukma Bangsa School Pidie (SBP) through a phenomenographic approach. More specifically, the research had purpose to understand the way adolescents construct their learning identity in a school environment. The findings suggested that there were variations in the way adolescents experienced their learning identity that might encourage them to achieve different degrees of motivation, self-perceptions (self-efficacy, self-concept, and self-esteem), autonomy, and self-development towards their identity as learners. In this study, students exhibited a high level of self-efficacy and self-development, an average level of self-esteem and autonomy, and close to an average level of self-concept and motivation in constructing their identity as learners. The students also revealed that the highest accomplishment of their experiences was in showing their confidence towards learning attitude, whereas the lowest one was in adult attachment. Adult attachment therefore is pivotal to moderate students who have either low willingness to study or low self-conception.[Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk mengeksplorasi pembentukan identitas remaja sebagai peserta didik di Sekolah Sukma Bangsa Pidie (SBP) melalui pendekatan fenomenografi. Lebih khusus lagi, penelitian ini bertujuan untuk memahami bagaimana remaja membangun identitas pembelajaran mereka di lingkungan sekolah. Temuan menunjukkan adanya variasi cara remaja membentuk identitas mereka, yang mendorong mereka mencapai tingkat motivasi, persepsi diri (self-efficacy, self-concept, dan self esteem), otonomi, dan pengembangan diri yang berbeda. Dalam penelitian ini, siswa menunjukkan tingkat self-efficacy dan self-development yang tinggi, tingkat self-esteem dan otonomi yang rata-rata serta konsep diri dan motivasi mendekati tingkat rata-rata. Pengalaman siswa yang paling tinggi menunjukkan kepercayaan diri terhadap sikap belajar, sedangkan yang terendah menunjukkan keterikatan pada orang dewasa. Oleh karena itu, keterikatan pada orang dewasa sangat penting bagi siswa yang memiliki kesediaan untuk belajar atau konsepsi diri rendah.]


2017 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 249-280
Author(s):  
Nurhayati Nurhayati ◽  
Ratna Sari Dewi ◽  
Eero Ropo ◽  
Pekka Räihä

This study aimed to explore how adolescents performed towards their identity as learners in Sukma Bangsa School Pidie (SBP) through a phenomenographic approach. More specifically, the research had purpose to understand the way adolescents construct their learning identity in a school environment. The findings suggested that there were variations in the way adolescents experienced their learning identity that might encourage them to achieve different degrees of motivation, self-perceptions (self-efficacy, self-concept, and self-esteem), autonomy, and self-development towards their identity as learners. In this study, students exhibited a high level of self-efficacy and self-development, an average level of self-esteem and autonomy, and close to an average level of self-concept and motivation in constructing their identity as learners. The students also revealed that the highest accomplishment of their experiences was in showing their confidence towards learning attitude, whereas the lowest one was in adult attachment. Adult attachment therefore is pivotal to moderate students who have either low willingness to study or low self-conception.[Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk mengeksplorasi pembentukan identitas remaja sebagai peserta didik di Sekolah Sukma Bangsa Pidie (SBP) melalui pendekatan fenomenografi. Lebih khusus lagi, penelitian ini bertujuan untuk memahami bagaimana remaja membangun identitas pembelajaran mereka di lingkungan sekolah. Temuan menunjukkan adanya variasi cara remaja membentuk identitas mereka, yang mendorong mereka mencapai tingkat motivasi, persepsi diri (self-efficacy, self-concept, dan self esteem), otonomi, dan pengembangan diri yang berbeda. Dalam penelitian ini, siswa menunjukkan tingkat self-efficacy dan self-development yang tinggi, tingkat self-esteem dan otonomi yang rata-rata serta konsep diri dan motivasi mendekati tingkat rata-rata. Pengalaman siswa yang paling tinggi menunjukkan kepercayaan diri terhadap sikap belajar, sedangkan yang terendah menunjukkan keterikatan pada orang dewasa. Oleh karena itu, keterikatan pada orang dewasa sangat penting bagi siswa yang memiliki kesediaan untuk belajar atau konsepsi diri rendah.]


2011 ◽  
Vol 59 (2) ◽  
pp. 123-132 ◽  
Author(s):  
Helmut Kirchmann ◽  
Andrea Thomas ◽  
Elisabeth Brüderle ◽  
Bernhard Strauß
Keyword(s):  

Zusammenfassung. Zur Aufklärung der in der Literatur gefundenen Zusammenhänge zwischen Bindungsmustern von Psychotherapiepatienten vor der Behandlung und der Qualität der therapeutischen Beziehung wurden drei Tonband-Sequenzen aus Adult-Attachment-Interviews, die jeweils prototypisch eine sichere (autonomous), eine ambivalente (enmeshed) oder eine vermeidende (dismissive) Bindung repräsentierten, nach Zufall einer Stichprobe von N = 343 Medizinstudenten zugeordnet. Nach der Präsentation der Tonbandsequenzen wurden das emotionale Wohlbefinden der Probanden, ihre Einschätzung der Freundlichkeit der interviewten Person und ihre Bereitschaft, mit der Person in Kontakt zu treten, erhoben. Die Datenanalysen ergaben, dass Probanden, die den ambivalenten Tonbandausschnitt gehört hatten, die stärksten Beeinträchtigungen des Wohlbefindens zeigten, wohingegen die Einschätzungen der Freundlichkeit sowie die Kontaktbereitschaft bei den Probanden mit vermeidender Darbietung am geringsten ausfielen. Interaktionseffekte zwischen den unterschiedlichen Tonbanddarbietungen und dem Bindungstyp der Probanden ergaben sich nicht. Die Studie repliziert die Ergebnisse von Martin et al. (2007) , bei der das gleiche Gegenübertragungs-Reaktionsmuster an zwei Stichproben (Studierenden sowie Psychotherapie-Ausbildungskandidaten) gefunden wurde. Psychotherapeuten sollten sich bewusst sein, dass unterschiedliche Gegenübertragungsreaktionen auf so subtilen Bahnen wie der Erzählung der Patienten über ihre Beziehung zu den Eltern ausgelöst werden können. Die Kenntnis des Bindungsmusters ihrer Patienten kann für Psychotherapeuten hilfreich sein bei der Entwicklung einer tragfähigen therapeutischen Beziehung.


2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (4) ◽  
pp. 203-210
Author(s):  
Daniela Mayer ◽  
Julia Berkic ◽  
Fabienne Becker-Stoll
Keyword(s):  

Zusammenfassung. Bisher weiß man wenig darüber, durch welche Faktoren eine hohe Interaktions- und Beziehungsqualität von pädagogischen Fachkräften in Kindertageseinrichtungen gefördert oder beeinträchtigt wird. Gemäß der Bindungstheorie wird angenommen, dass das Interaktionsverhalten von Betreuungspersonen vom inneren Arbeitsmodell von Bindung maßgeblich mitbeeinflusst wird. In der vorliegenden Studie wurde die Bindungsrepräsentation von n = 66 pädagogischen Fachkräften in Kindertageseinrichtungen in Deutschland anhand des Adult Attachment Interviews (AAI; George, Kaplan, & Main, 1985 ) erfasst. Es zeigte sich eine Verteilung der Bindungsrepräsentationen vergleichbar mit nicht-klinischen Stichproben laut der Metaanalyse von Bakermans-Kranenburg und van IJzendoorn (2009) . Dabei bestanden keine Unterschiede zwischen Fachkräften in Kindergärten und Krippen. Es zeigte sich allerdings ein Einfluss des Alters der Fachkräfte dahingehend, dass jüngere Fachkräfte häufiger über eine sichere Bindungsrepräsentation und seltener über einen unverarbeiteten Verlust bzw. ein unverarbeitetes Trauma verfügten. Implikationen für Forschung und Praxis zur Förderung von positiven Fachkraft-Kind-Interaktionen und -Beziehungen werden diskutiert.


Author(s):  
Kazunori Iwasa ◽  
Toshiki Ogawa

We examined the relationship between texture responses (T) on the Rorschach and adult attachment in the Japanese population. 47 Japanese undergraduate and graduate students (mean age = 20.16, SD = 1.87) completed a self-report adult attachment scale as well as the Rorschach. An ANOVA revealed that T = 1 participants were attached more securely than were other groups. T > 1 participants were more preoccupied with attachment and scored higher on an attachment anxiety scale than the T = 1 group. Although these results were consistent with the interpretation of the texture response according to the Comprehensive System (CS), the results obtained for T = 0 participants were inconsistent with hypotheses derived from the CS. T = 0 participants were high on preoccupied and attachment anxiety scores, although they were theoretically expected to be high on dismissing or attachment avoidance. These results indicated that – at least in Japan – T should be regarded as a sensitive measure of attachment anxiety.


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