Using Photo Elicitation to Introduce a Network Perspective on Attachment During Middle Childhood
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2410696 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Sophia Daphne Becke, Sophia Becke (corresponding author), Stephan Bongard (0000-0002-7891-1117) |
| Year | 2018 |
| Volume | 17 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Publication date | 2018-12-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | International Journal of Qualitative Methods (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1609-4069 • E-ISSN: 1609-4069 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1177/1609406918797017 |
| OpenAlex | W2889205010 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 32 |
In this article, we develop a child-centered network approach to attachment during middle childhood. Following monotropic ideas, current attachment research focuses on parental attachment figures despite the expansion of the children's social environment during middle childhood, failing to generate a comprehensive and structured overview of all individuals who ensure the children's feeling of safety. Relying on quantitative methods, these studies are also dominated by an adult perspective, limiting the children's contributions. While there have been theoretical drafts of attachment networks during childhood, this article constitutes the first practical implementation. Using photo elicitation interviews and participant observations, we developed an innovative assessment strategy that allows children to exhaustively identify and characterize all their attachment figures on sociostructural and functional dimensions, thus positioning the children at the center of their comprehensive attachment networks that collectively contribute to their feeling of security. We combine qualitative and quantitative data to assess the children's own understanding of their feeling of security and to locate the individual attachment figure on context-specific social dimensions, thus making the research setting, a clan in Cameroon, an inherent part of the methodological development. The data are translated into multidimensional network diagrams to visualize the children's perception of their attachment environment and the emerging patterns of their selection. We present an exemplary network, supplementing it with observational data to discuss the ecological validity of our approach
Attachment theory · Context (archaeology · Developmental psychology · Early childhood · Feeling · Observational methods in psychology · Observational study · Perception · Perspective (graphical · Attachment and Relationship Dynamics · Community Health and Development · Computer Science · Psychology · Social Representations and Identity · Artificial Intelligence · Social Psychology
Attachment as an Organizational Framework for Research on Close Relationships
The Inventory of Parent and Peer Attachment?Revised (Ippa-R) for children
Parent–child attachment and monitoring in middle childhood.
Attachment as an Organizational Construct
Ecology of the family as a context for human development
The Child and Its Family
The Social Network
Attachments, Social Networks, and Developmental Contexts
Attachment as a Cultural and Ecological Problem with Pluralistic Solutions
The Problem of Informant Accuracy
‘A camera is a big responsibility’
Commentary-Culture and Attachment During Middle Childhood
Family-system-test (Fast)
Normative Trends in Children's Perceptions of Availability and Utilization of Attachment Figures in Middle Childhood
Social Network Types Among Older Adults
Is it fun?” developing children centred research methods
Children's perceptions of the personal relationships in their social networks
Attachments beyond infancy
My Brother's Keeper
Breaking the Ethnographer's Frames
Framing the Social World With Photo-Elicitation Interviews
Visualizing Personal Networks
Photo Interviews
Cultural Models, Socialization Goals, and Parenting Ethnotheories
| Citation velocity | historical |
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| Highly cited | No |