Do attachment related parenting behaviours towards 4-6 year olds help explain antisocial behaviour and attachment representations?
(with Dr Tom O’Connor; funded by Jacobs Foundation, ESRC, Psychiatry Research Trust) researchers Annabel Futh, Nicole Salter, Jane Briscoe, Nadine Boyne, Mandy Sharpley, and Carla Matias) Now coding schemes have been developed to discern constructs such as sensitive responding and mutuality during directly observed play tasks. Early results suggest that this way of seeing parenting differs greatly from social learning theory approaches, and that both independently contribute to antisocial behaviour. It appears there is a strong relationship between attachment related behaviour and child attachment representation as measured by the MCAST task.
