Guy Bosmans
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 233141 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Guy Bosmans |
| PRENOMES | Guy |
| SOBRENOME | Bosmans |
| ASSINATURA | BOSMANS G |
| AFILIAÇÕES | KU Leuven |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-9057-6027 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 48 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 89 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 48 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2004 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 4 |
Prototype updating, contextual renewal, and the role of reward responsiveness in trust learning
Unique and interactive associations between maternal and paternal attachment predicting depressive symptoms in Iranian female adolescents
Temporal Dynamics Between State Attachment Security, Avoidance, and Anxiety
The attachment system regulates behavior to maintain security and cope with insecurities. Although this necessitates the coordination of different attachment states, research on state-level dynamics is scarce. We used data from two ecological momentary assessment studies ( N s = 122 and 127) to examine cross-lagged effects between state attachment security, avoidance, and anxiety. We hypothesized dampening effects between the secure and insecure …
Practitioner Review
Attachment theory, with its core concepts, perspectives, and insights developed over the past five decades, is influential for professionals working with young children. However, practitioners face challenges translating attachment theory and research into practical applications. This manifests in attachment myths, theoretical misinterpretations, and inconsistency of application. This state‐of‐the‐art review is authored by 47 attachment researche…
Anatomy of the Relational Reframe in Attachment‐Based Family Therapy
In attachment‐based family therapy (ABFT), shifting the treatment goal from the adolescent as the problem to strengthening family relationships as the solution is the critical first task. No research has explored whether this “relational reframe” works, how it works, and for whom it works. We evaluated the relational reframe for 47 families receiving ABFT for depressed and suicidal adolescents. We coded markers to identify the reframing and contr…
Brief Report
Priming or activating memories of (in)secure interactions with parents is expected to activate in-the-moment attachment feelings (aka state-like attachment, as compared to trait-like attachment). In this study, we tested whether priming secure and avoidant attachment memories affected state attachment security, anxiety, and avoidance and whether prime effects depended on trait attachment in 56 early adolescents (42.9% boys; 57.1% girls) aged 10–1…
NR3C1 Methylation and Perceived Parenting as Joint Predictors of the Development of Loneliness in Adolescence
INTRODUCTION: Adolescents who perceive low levels of parental support or high levels of parental psychological control are at increased risk for developing loneliness. However, the association between parenting experiences and loneliness varies among adolescents. This study examined whether higher levels of DNA methylation in the glucocorticoid receptor gene (NR3C1), a gene directly involved in stress-reactivity, moderated the association between…
Everyday State Attachment
OBJECTIVE: Attachment research has traditionally focused on traits, enhancing our understanding of attachment-related individual differences. However, to chart the dynamic properties of the attachment system, more research is needed on the within-person fluctuation of attachment states. In this ecological momentary assessment (EMA) study, we examined (a) the associations between the baseline, variability, and inertia of each state attachment dime…
Adverse childhood experiences and emotion dynamics in daily life
s = 122 and 121), we examined the linear and curvilinear associations of ACEs with daily emotion dynamic features. We expected ACEs to show linear associations with a higher baseline level, variability, and inertia of negative emotions, as well as a lower baseline level of positive emotions. Moreover, we expected ACEs to show U-shaped curvilinear associations with the variability of negative and positive emotions. The results did not support our …
The associations between negative parenting and aggressive behavior
Middle childhood attachment is related to adolescent early maladaptive schemas
The Moderating Role of Oxytocin in the Association Between Parental Support and Change in Secure Attachment Development
According to the Learning Theory of Attachment, neuroendocrinological processes affect the association between parental support and change in attachment. The current study aimed to test this assumption for oxytocin (OT) given its role in social behavior. We conducted a three-wave longitudinal study in which 91 children (56% girls, M age = 9.55, SD age = 0.63) participated. Change in attachment was assessed from Wave 1 to Wave 3 and was indexed by…
Variation in differential reactions to comfort by parents versus strangers in children with severe or profound intellectual disabilities
Depressive symptoms and attachment with mother and father in Iranian young adults
The Attachment-related picture set (ARPS)
Roles of recalled parenting experiences and effortful control in adult daily emotion regulation
Research suggests that both childhood experiences with one's parents and individual differences in effortful control contribute to adult emotion regulation (ER). However, it is unclear how they associate with specific ER processes. In this adult study, we examined the roles of recalled parenting experiences and effortful control in daily ER selection and implementation. Using ecological momentary assessment (EMA), we focused on ER strategies of r…
Middle childhood attachment‐based family therapy
In middle childhood, the first manifestations of mental health problems can emerge and become a precursor of mental health issues in adolescence. Given that weak parent–child attachment can contribute to this distress, it is possible that strengthening the attachment bond could reduce risk trajectory. Unfortunately, evidence‐based attachment‐focused interventions are lacking at this age. Attachment‐based family therapy (ABFT) is a well‐studied in…
Cumulative family stress and externalizing problems
The current study examined whether secure base script knowledge can buffer against higher concurrent externalizing problems and against relative increases in externalizing problems associated with cumulative family stress. We conducted a one-year longitudinal study with two waves between 2017 and 2019 in which 272 Dutch-speaking Western European children from Flanders (47.8% boys, Mage=10.20,SDage=0.60) participated. Secure base script knowledge …
Attachment and Maladjustment
Latent growth curve modeling was used to investigate the longitudinal link between attachment, effortful control (EC), and maladaptive development during middle childhood. In a community sample, children (Time 1: n = 157; M age = 10.91) and their mothers were examined three times over a two-year period. Attachment was operationalized at a more strategic (self-reported trust in maternal support) and more automatic level (secure base script knowled…
Attachment orientation and dynamics of negative and positive emotions in daily life
People’s attachment orientation contributes to their emotional experiences. However, the associations between attachment orientation and emotion dynamic features have remained unclear. In this preregistered study, we tested the associations of attachment orientation with baseline level, variability, inertia, and differentiation of emotions using two ecological momentary assessment adult samples (N=122; N=127). Attachment anxiety predicted a highe…
Perceived Parental Support and Psychological Control, DNA Methylation, and Loneliness
Dynamics of attachment and emotion regulation in daily life
26.4) completed the Experiences in Close Relationship-Revised and reported state attachment and ER seven times daily for seven days. The results were only partly consistent with our cycle hypotheses yet revealed a cycle between low state attachment security and rumination that was attenuated by reappraisal. Moreover, rumination and suppression predicted increased insecure states, and reappraisal predicted increased secure and insecure states. Fin…
An empirical test of prototype and revisionist models of attachment stability and change from middle childhood to adolescence
We examined the prototype v. revisionist models of attachment stability with a five-wave, 6-year, longitudinal study of attachment security from middle childhood to adolescence in a White Western European sample (N = 157; Wave 1 Mage = 10.91, SD = 0.87; 52% female). Attachment was assessed using both questionnaire (Experiences in Close Relationships) and narrative-based measures (Attachment Script Assessment). In addition, a set of potential mode…
The Effect of Attachment Priming on State Attachment Security in Middle Childhood
Recent studies showed that attachment security can change within persons, suggesting that there might be an interplay between a rather stable (trait) and rather variable (state) part of attachment. The study’s first aim was to investigate whether attachment priming could influence the level of state attachment. The second aim was to explore possible moderators explaining individual differences in the relation between state attachment responses to…
Attachment and the Development of Depressive Symptoms in Adolescence
Although widely accepted, attachment theory’s hypothesis that insecure attachment is associated with the development of depressive symptoms through emotion regulation strategies has never been longitudinally tested in adolescence. Additionally, previous research only focused on strategies for regulating negative affect, whereas strategies for regulating positive affect may also serve as a mechanism linking insecure attachment to depressive sympto…
Child Personality and Parental Behavior as Moderators of Problem Behavior
Parenting Child Personality interactions in predicting child externalizing and internalizing behavior were investigated in a variable-centered study and a person-centered study. The variable-centered study used data from a 3-year longitudinal study of 600 children 7 to 15 years old at Time 1 and 512 children 10 to 18 years old at Time 2. Parents rated child personality (five factor model), negative control, positive parenting, and child problem b…
An adaptation of the Experiences in Close Relationships Scale-Revised for use with children and adolescents
The investigation of attachment processes during middle childhood and early adolescence has been hampered by a relative lack of measures for this age group differentiating between two fundamental attachment dimensions, that is, anxiety and avoidance. The aim of this study is to develop and validate a child version of the Experiences in Close Relationships Scale-Revised (referred to as the ECR-RC), a self-report questionnaire measuring attachment …
Secure base representations in middle childhood across two Western cultures
Recent work examining the content and organization of attachment representations suggests that 1 way in which we represent the attachment relationship is in the form of a cognitive script. This work has largely focused on early childhood or adolescence/adulthood, leaving a large gap in our understanding of script-like attachment representations in the middle childhood period. We present 2 studies and provide 3 critical pieces of evidence regardin…
Parents' Power Assertive Discipline and Internalizing Problems in Adolescents
SYNOPSIS Objective. To increase understanding of the link between power assertive discipline and internalizing problems in adolescence, the present study investigated the role of attachment. Design. For this purpose, 514 families (mothers, fathers, and adolescents ranging in age from 10 to 18 years) completed questionnaires measuring power assertive discipline, attachment, and internalizing problems. Power assertive discipline was measured with m…
Attachment and the Development of Depressive Symptoms in Adolescence
Although widely accepted, attachment theory’s hypothesis that insecure attachment is associated with the development of depressive symptoms through emotion regulation strategies has never been longitudinally tested in adolescence. Additionally, previous research only focused on strategies for regulating negative affect, whereas strategies for regulating positive affect may also serve as a mechanism linking insecure attachment to depressive sympto…
Adopted Children’s Behavioral Adjustment Over Time
We tested whether adoptive parenting played a role in the association between pre-adoption experiences and children’s adaptive (responsiveness) and maladaptive (internalizing and externalizing behavioral problems, attention and sleep problems) behavioral adjustment over time. Ten-year-old girls, adopted at 13 months from institutional care ( n = 50) or foster care ( n = 42) in China to the Netherlands, participated 2 months (Time 1, N = 92), 6 mo…
Stability and change in secure base script knowledge during middle childhood and early adolescence
There is limited research examining stability and change in attachment security in middle childhood. The current study addresses this gap using data from a 3-year longitudinal study. Specifically, we examined stability and change in secure base script knowledge during middle childhood using a sample of 157 children (Wave 1 mean age [ M age ] = 10.91, standard deviation [ SD ] = 0.87) assessed at 1-year intervals across 4 waves. Secure base script…
The effect of parental rejection on the emotional eating behaviour of youngsters
Under Which Conditions Do Early Adolescents Need Maternal Support
Maternal support is known as a protective factor during infancy, childhood, and adolescence. However, less is known about the conditions leading to support-seeking behaviors toward mothers in early adolescence. In comparison with younger children, it is assumed that the specific nature of these conditions changes with continuing cognitive maturation. To shed light on the normative development of attachment-related behaviors beyond infancy and, mo…
Attachment orientation and dynamics of negative and positive emotions in daily life
People’s attachment orientation contributes to their emotional experiences. However, the associations between attachment orientation and emotion dynamic features have remained unclear. In this preregistered study, we tested the associations of attachment orientation with baseline level, variability, inertia, and differentiation of emotions using two ecological momentary assessment adult samples (N=122; N=127). Attachment anxiety predicted a highe…
State attachment variability across distressing situations in middle childhood
Contemporary research suggests that attachment has both a trait‐like, stable component, and a state‐like component that varies across contexts. In the current study, we assessed state attachment variability across comparably distressing situations in middle childhood. In two samples, children reported their expectations of maternal support in each situation. Additionally, we administered trait attachment and psychological well‐being measures. Res…
Attachment and self-regulation performance in preadolescence
In preadolescence, research has shown links between the quality of children's attachment relationships and children's perceived self-regulatory abilities. However, less research has focused on the association between attachment and preadolescents' self-regulation performance. In a sample of 120 children, aged 9-13, we administered questionnaires to assess trust in maternal support and anxious and avoidant attachment. In addition, mothers reported…
Attachment and depressive symptoms in middle childhood
The current study investigated whether biological sensitivity to emotional information moderates the link between attachment anxiety/avoidance and depressive symptoms. Sixty children (9-12 years old) completed questionnaires on attachment and depressive symptoms. Skin conductance level (SCL) was measured across three conditions: an emotionally neutral baseline condition, a negative mood induction condition, and a positive mood induction condition…
Attachment and Effortful Control
Based on former research, it can be assumed that attachment relationships provide a context in which children develop both the effortful control (EC) capacity and the repertoire of responses to regulate distress. Both are important to understand children’s (mal)adjustment. While the latter assumption has been supported in several studies, less is known about links between attachment and EC. We administered questionnaires to measure anxious and av…
Children’s attentional exploration of threatening information as related to trust in maternal support
There is increasing interest in attachment-related social information processing, including children's attentional processing of information regarding the attachment figure. Previous research in middle childhood revealed evidence for a stronger attentional focus toward mother in children with less secure attachment expectations. However, the implication of this attentional focus for children's exploration has not been explored. This study tested …
Perceived Parental Support and Psychological Control, DNA Methylation, and Loneliness
The Association Between Normative Beliefs Approving Aggression and Overt Aggressive Behavior in Vietnamese Adolescents
In Vietnam, school violence is a serious problem; yet, little is known about the factors explaining this phenomenon. The current study looked at the role of normative beliefs approving aggression in the development of overt aggressive behavior. Using a short-term longitudinal design with three waves (4-month interval), this study examined the associations between normative beliefs approving aggression and overt aggressive behavior in a sample of …
The Specificity of Autobiographical Memories in Early Adolescence
Although autobiographical memory specificity is an important developmental feature fostering adaptation throughout life, little is known about factors related to interindividual differences in autobiographical memory specificity. The current study investigated associations with early adolescents’ communication with mother about their experiences and their trust in her support. For this reason, 80 general population children (ages ranging from 10 …
Do Parenting Behaviors Predict Externalizing Behavior in Adolescence, or Is Attachment the Neglected 3rd Factor
Child Personality and Parental Behavior as Moderators of Problem Behavior
Parenting Child Personality interactions in predicting child externalizing and internalizing behavior were investigated in a variable-centered study and a person-centered study. The variable-centered study used data from a 3-year longitudinal study of 600 children 7 to 15 years old at Time 1 and 512 children 10 to 18 years old at Time 2. Parents rated child personality (five factor model), negative control, positive parenting, and child problem b…
Do Parenting Behaviors Predict Externalizing Behavior in Adolescence, or Is Attachment the Neglected 3rd Factor
Attachment and weight and shape concerns in inpatient overweight youngsters
Parents' Power Assertive Discipline and Internalizing Problems in Adolescents
SYNOPSIS Objective. To increase understanding of the link between power assertive discipline and internalizing problems in adolescence, the present study investigated the role of attachment. Design. For this purpose, 514 families (mothers, fathers, and adolescents ranging in age from 10 to 18 years) completed questionnaires measuring power assertive discipline, attachment, and internalizing problems. Power assertive discipline was measured with m…
An adaptation of the Experiences in Close Relationships Scale-Revised for use with children and adolescents
The investigation of attachment processes during middle childhood and early adolescence has been hampered by a relative lack of measures for this age group differentiating between two fundamental attachment dimensions, that is, anxiety and avoidance. The aim of this study is to develop and validate a child version of the Experiences in Close Relationships Scale-Revised (referred to as the ECR-RC), a self-report questionnaire measuring attachment …
Attachment and depressive symptoms in middle childhood and early adolescence
This research examines differential associations between attachment dimensions (anxiety and avoidance) and emotion regulation (ER) strategies (dysregulation and suppression) in middle childhood and early adolescence. Furthermore, the study investigates how attachment and ER relate to depressive symptoms and perceived parenting. Two cross‐sectional studies ( N = 339 and N = 746) supported the hypothesized associations between attachment anxiety an…
The Specificity of Autobiographical Memories in Early Adolescence
Although autobiographical memory specificity is an important developmental feature fostering adaptation throughout life, little is known about factors related to interindividual differences in autobiographical memory specificity. The current study investigated associations with early adolescents’ communication with mother about their experiences and their trust in her support. For this reason, 80 general population children (ages ranging from 10 …
Under Which Conditions Do Early Adolescents Need Maternal Support
Maternal support is known as a protective factor during infancy, childhood, and adolescence. However, less is known about the conditions leading to support-seeking behaviors toward mothers in early adolescence. In comparison with younger children, it is assumed that the specific nature of these conditions changes with continuing cognitive maturation. To shed light on the normative development of attachment-related behaviors beyond infancy and, mo…
Fear Acquisition through Maternal Verbal Threat Information in Middle Childhood
SYNOPSISObjective. Maternal verbal threat information influences fear acquisition during childhood. This study investigates whether child attachment moderates the impact of maternal verbal threat information on children’s fear beliefs and behavioral avoidance. Design. Mothers of 60 children provided verbal threat information about one of two unfamiliar Australian animals. Change in children’s fear beliefs was measured with a questionnaire, and th…
Attachment and Effortful Control
Based on former research, it can be assumed that attachment relationships provide a context in which children develop both the effortful control (EC) capacity and the repertoire of responses to regulate distress. Both are important to understand children’s (mal)adjustment. While the latter assumption has been supported in several studies, less is known about links between attachment and EC. We administered questionnaires to measure anxious and av…
Children’s attentional exploration of threatening information as related to trust in maternal support
There is increasing interest in attachment-related social information processing, including children's attentional processing of information regarding the attachment figure. Previous research in middle childhood revealed evidence for a stronger attentional focus toward mother in children with less secure attachment expectations. However, the implication of this attentional focus for children's exploration has not been explored. This study tested …
Secure base representations in middle childhood across two Western cultures
Recent work examining the content and organization of attachment representations suggests that 1 way in which we represent the attachment relationship is in the form of a cognitive script. This work has largely focused on early childhood or adolescence/adulthood, leaving a large gap in our understanding of script-like attachment representations in the middle childhood period. We present 2 studies and provide 3 critical pieces of evidence regardin…
Attachment and depressive symptoms in middle childhood
The current study investigated whether biological sensitivity to emotional information moderates the link between attachment anxiety/avoidance and depressive symptoms. Sixty children (9-12 years old) completed questionnaires on attachment and depressive symptoms. Skin conductance level (SCL) was measured across three conditions: an emotionally neutral baseline condition, a negative mood induction condition, and a positive mood induction condition…
Children's attentional breadth around their mother
Attentional processes in children are tuned toward their mother. It is unclear whether this is a cognitively controlled or more automatic, stimulus‐driven process. Therefore, 172 children (age 9–13) were assigned to either a cognitively controlled or a stimulus‐driven task measuring the breadth of their attentional field around their mother. Results demonstrated a narrower field around the mother for children completing the more stimulus‐driven t…
The effect of parental rejection on the emotional eating behaviour of youngsters
The effects of children’s proximity‐seeking to maternal attachment figures during mild stress exposure on mood and physiological responses
In this study we investigated the effects of seeking versus avoiding proximity to mother on children’s emotional recovery from a stressor. Sixty children 9–12 years underwent a moodinduction procedure and were randomly assigned to seek proximity from or avoid an image of their mothers. The effect of this manipulation on children’s self‐reported negative emotions, skin conductance and heart rate variability (respiratory sinus arhythmia) was assess…
Behavioral adjustment of Chinese adoptees
NR3C1 methylation as a moderator of the effects of maternal support and stress on insecure attachment development
We examined the prediction that the interaction between Glucocorticoid Receptor Gene (NR3C1) methylation, stress, and experienced maternal support predicts anxious and avoidant attachment development. This was tested in a general population sample of 487 children and adolescents (44% boys, Mage = 11.84, SDage = 2.4). These children were followed over a period of 18 months. In line with the prediction, we found that NR3C1 methylation moderates the…
State attachment variability across distressing situations in middle childhood
Contemporary research suggests that attachment has both a trait‐like, stable component, and a state‐like component that varies across contexts. In the current study, we assessed state attachment variability across comparably distressing situations in middle childhood. In two samples, children reported their expectations of maternal support in each situation. Additionally, we administered trait attachment and psychological well‐being measures. Res…
Adopted Children’s Behavioral Adjustment Over Time
We tested whether adoptive parenting played a role in the association between pre-adoption experiences and children’s adaptive (responsiveness) and maladaptive (internalizing and externalizing behavioral problems, attention and sleep problems) behavioral adjustment over time. Ten-year-old girls, adopted at 13 months from institutional care ( n = 50) or foster care ( n = 42) in China to the Netherlands, participated 2 months (Time 1, N = 92), 6 mo…
The Association Between Normative Beliefs Approving Aggression and Overt Aggressive Behavior in Vietnamese Adolescents
In Vietnam, school violence is a serious problem; yet, little is known about the factors explaining this phenomenon. The current study looked at the role of normative beliefs approving aggression in the development of overt aggressive behavior. Using a short-term longitudinal design with three waves (4-month interval), this study examined the associations between normative beliefs approving aggression and overt aggressive behavior in a sample of …
Stability and change in secure base script knowledge during middle childhood and early adolescence
There is limited research examining stability and change in attachment security in middle childhood. The current study addresses this gap using data from a 3-year longitudinal study. Specifically, we examined stability and change in secure base script knowledge during middle childhood using a sample of 157 children (Wave 1 mean age [ M age ] = 10.91, standard deviation [ SD ] = 0.87) assessed at 1-year intervals across 4 waves. Secure base script…
Attachment and self-regulation performance in preadolescence
In preadolescence, research has shown links between the quality of children's attachment relationships and children's perceived self-regulatory abilities. However, less research has focused on the association between attachment and preadolescents' self-regulation performance. In a sample of 120 children, aged 9-13, we administered questionnaires to assess trust in maternal support and anxious and avoidant attachment. In addition, mothers reported…
Attachment and the Development of Depressive Symptoms in Adolescence
Although widely accepted, attachment theory’s hypothesis that insecure attachment is associated with the development of depressive symptoms through emotion regulation strategies has never been longitudinally tested in adolescence. Additionally, previous research only focused on strategies for regulating negative affect, whereas strategies for regulating positive affect may also serve as a mechanism linking insecure attachment to depressive sympto…
Dynamics of attachment and emotion regulation in daily life
26.4) completed the Experiences in Close Relationship-Revised and reported state attachment and ER seven times daily for seven days. The results were only partly consistent with our cycle hypotheses yet revealed a cycle between low state attachment security and rumination that was attenuated by reappraisal. Moreover, rumination and suppression predicted increased insecure states, and reappraisal predicted increased secure and insecure states. Fin…
Psychology (43 obras) · Developmental psychology (42 obras) · Attachment and Relationship Dynamics (39 obras) · Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development (39 obras) · Attachment theory (21 obras) · Clinical Psychology (20 obras) · Psychiatry (16 obras) · Medicine (13 obras) · Anxiety (12 obras) · Clinical Psychology (12 obras)