Maltreated Children's Representations of Mother and an Additional Caregiver
A Longitudinal Study
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 19280261 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Shany Manashko (Ben-Gurion University of the Negev), Avi Besser (0000-0002-0294-3315, Sapir College), Beatriz Priel (Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2009 |
| Volume | 77 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 561-599 |
| Publication date | 2009-04-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of Personality (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0022-3506 • E-ISSN: 1467-6494 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1111/j.1467-6494.2008.00558.x |
| PMID | 19220720 |
| OpenAlex | W2001505496 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
| References cited | 46 |
In the current longitudinal investigation, we explored the continuity of and changes in the mental representations of the mother and an additional caregiver among forty‐five 9‐ to 11‐year‐old children who had been severely maltreated and subsequently placed in long‐term residential care as well as the relationships between the content and structure of these representations and teacher's assessments of the child's externalizing and internalizing symptoms. At Time 1, a nonmaltreated comparison group was assessed concomitantly. Compared to nonmaltreated children, maltreated children scored higher for externalizing and internalizing symptoms, and their maternal representations were found to be significantly less benevolent and integrated and more punitive. In addition, among the maltreated children, the additional caregiver representations were found to be more benevolent and integrated, and less punitive, than the maternal representations. After 30 months, the maltreated children's levels of externalizing and internalizing symptoms diminished, their maternal representations become more benevolent and less punitive, and the additional caregiver representations became less benevolent. Moreover, the Benevolence of the additional caregiver representation was found to predict these children's changes in externalizing symptoms beyond the effects of their symptomatology and its associations with the Benevolence of these representations at Time 1
Cognition · Developmental psychology · Longitudinal study · Mental representation · Psychiatry · Punitive damages · Child Abuse and Trauma · Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development · Child Welfare and Adoption · Clinical Psychology · Medicine · Psychology
Emotional Development
Security in Infancy, Childhood, and Adulthood
Protective Factors and Individual Resilience
Formulating clinical research hypotheses as structural equation models
The Concept of the Representational World
Attachment Theory
Attachment from Infancy to Early Adulthood in a High-Risk Sample
Two maternal representations
Symbol Formation
Breaking the Cycle of Abuse
Identity consolidation and internalizing and externalizing problem behaviors in early adolescence
Two maternal representations
Object Relations and Ego Development
Mother and Self‐Representations
Developmental perspectives on the etiology, intergenerational transmission, and sequelae of child maltreatment
Fifteen-month follow-up of children at risk
Effect of maltreatment on preschoolers' narrative representations of responses to relieve distress and of role reversal
Narrative representations of caregivers and emotion dysregulation as predictors of maltreated children's rejection by peers
Children's Voices
The course of cognitive growth
Modes of Representation of Thought
Relational schemas and the processing of social information
Intraclass correlations
| Unique citing works | 3 |
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| Citations per year | 0,3 |
| Citation span | 2016 - 2024 (9) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 2 |