Articlegreen2002

Mother–infant and father–infant attachment among alcoholic families

Rina D. Eiden · Ellen P. Edwards · Kenneth E. Leonard

117 citations0/0 files storedDevelopment and Psychopathology

No readable copy stored yet — this record is metadata only.

No open-access location is known for this record yet.

Literature note Cite in a project Citation map

Attachment and Relationship Dynamics Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development Prenatal Substance Exposure Effects

Abstract

This study examined the association between fathers' alcoholism and other risk factors such as parental depression, family conflict, infant temperament, and parent-infant attachment. The quality of parent-infant interactions was hypothesized to be a proximal mediator of the associations among alcoholism and other risk factors and attachment. The participants were 223 families (104 nonalcoholic families and 119 alcoholic families) with 12-month-old infants recruited through birth records. Infants in families with two parents with alcohol problem had significantly higher rates of insecure attachment with both parents. Structural Equations Modeling indicated that the fathers' alcohol problem was associated with lower paternal sensitivity (higher negative affect, lower positive engagement, and lower sensitive responding) during father-infant play interactions, and this in tum was associated with higher risk for infant attachment insecurity with fathers. The association between the fathers' alcohol problem and infant attachment security with the mother was mediated by matemal depression, and matemal alcohol problems and family conflict were associated with maternal sensitivity during play interactions. These results indicate that the fathers' alcoholism is associated with higher family risk including the quality of the parent-infant relationship; infant attachment develops in a family context; and this context has a significant association with attachment security.

Paper brief

Loading…

Cite this work

Citation unavailable for this work.

BibTeX RIS CSL-JSON

No public copy is stored for this record, so only the metadata is cited.

Citations in this library

Citation map →

Stored only when both papers are in the corpus — 117 citations exist upstream.

References

1994Lifetime and 12-Month Prevalence of DSM-III-R Psychiatric Disorders in the United States 1995Testing Structural Equation Models.1979Measuring Intrafamily Conflict and Violence: The Conflict Tactics (CT) Scales 1987Psychosocial resilience and protective mechanisms.1997Sensitivity and Attachment: A Meta-Analysis on Parental Antecedents of Infant Attachment 2026Procedures for Identifying Infants as Disorganized/Disoriented During the Ainsworth Strange Situation 1993Stability of Intelligence from Preschool to Adolescence: The Influence of Social and Family Risk Factors 1982Screening for Depression in a Community Sample

Cited by

2021Configurations of mother‐child and father‐child attachment as predictors of internalizing and externalizing behavioral problems: An individual participant data (IPD) meta‐analysis 2006Behavior problems in 18- to 36-month-old children of alcoholic fathers: Secure mother–infant attachment as a protective factor 2017Attachment in young children with incarcerated fathers 2015The effects of parental sensitivity and involvement in caregiving on mother–infant and father–infant attachment in a Portuguese sample.

Explore the map →

Papers that cite the same references — the relational fallback while embeddings are still backfilling.

Imported from OpenAlex (CC0) — nothing here is generated.