Middle childhood support-seeking behavior during stress: links with self-reported attachment and future depressive symptoms
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- Adinda Dujardin, Tara Santens, Caroline Braet (UGent) , Rudi De Raedt (UGent) , Pieter Vos, Bea Maes and Guy Bosmans (UGent)
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- This study tested whether children's more anxious and avoidant attachment is linked to decreased support-seeking behavior toward their mother during stress in middle childhood, and whether children's decreased support-seeking behavior enhances the impact of experiencing life events on the increase of depressive symptoms 18months later. Ninety-eight 8- to 12-year-old children filled out questionnaires assessing their level of anxious and avoidant attachment and depressive symptoms. Children's support-seeking behavior was observed through measuring the time children waited before calling for their mother's help while carrying out a stressful task. Results supported the hypothesis that more anxiously or avoidantly attached children waited longer before seeking maternal support. Moreover, waiting longer was related to increased depressive symptoms at follow-up in children who reported more experienced life events.
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- ADULT ATTACHMENT, NEGATIVE COGNITIVE-STYLE, EMOTION REGULATION, ASSOCIATIONS, ADOLESCENCE, CHILDREN, DISTRESS, PUBERTY, COUPLES, PARENT
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Please use this url to cite or link to this publication: http://hdl.handle.net/1854/LU-6920940
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- Dujardin, Adinda, Tara Santens, Caroline Braet, Rudi De Raedt, Pieter Vos, Bea Maes, and Guy Bosmans. 2016. “Middle Childhood Support-seeking Behavior During Stress: Links with Self-reported Attachment and Future Depressive Symptoms.” Child Development 87 (1): 326–340.
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- Dujardin, A., Santens, T., Braet, C., De Raedt, R., Vos, P., Maes, B., & Bosmans, G. (2016). Middle childhood support-seeking behavior during stress: links with self-reported attachment and future depressive symptoms. CHILD DEVELOPMENT, 87(1), 326–340.
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- 1.Dujardin A, Santens T, Braet C, De Raedt R, Vos P, Maes B, et al. Middle childhood support-seeking behavior during stress: links with self-reported attachment and future depressive symptoms. CHILD DEVELOPMENT. 2016;87(1):326–40.
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- Dujardin, Adinda, Tara Santens, Caroline Braet, et al. “Middle Childhood Support-seeking Behavior During Stress: Links with Self-reported Attachment and Future Depressive Symptoms.” CHILD DEVELOPMENT 87.1 (2016): 326–340. Print.
@article{6920940,
abstract = {This study tested whether children's more anxious and avoidant attachment is linked to decreased support-seeking behavior toward their mother during stress in middle childhood, and whether children's decreased support-seeking behavior enhances the impact of experiencing life events on the increase of depressive symptoms 18months later. Ninety-eight 8- to 12-year-old children filled out questionnaires assessing their level of anxious and avoidant attachment and depressive symptoms. Children's support-seeking behavior was observed through measuring the time children waited before calling for their mother's help while carrying out a stressful task. Results supported the hypothesis that more anxiously or avoidantly attached children waited longer before seeking maternal support. Moreover, waiting longer was related to increased depressive symptoms at follow-up in children who reported more experienced life events.},
author = {Dujardin, Adinda and Santens, Tara and Braet, Caroline and De Raedt, Rudi and Vos, Pieter and Maes, Bea and Bosmans, Guy},
issn = {0009-3920},
journal = {CHILD DEVELOPMENT},
language = {eng},
number = {1},
pages = {326--340},
title = {Middle childhood support-seeking behavior during stress: links with self-reported attachment and future depressive symptoms},
url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/cdev.12491},
volume = {87},
year = {2016},
}
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