Relationship between attachment bond and cognitive, language and motor development
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https://doi.org/10.15448/1980-8623.2018.3.27248Keywords:
Mother-child relations, Childhood development, CognitionAbstract
Establishing a secure attachment relationship is important because it provides security for the child to explore the environment, an essential activity for child development. This study aims to investigate whether children with a secure and insecure attachment pattern differ in cognitive, linguistic and motor performance. Fifty children, aged between 12 and 25 months, participated in the study. An anamnesis questionnaire, the Ainsworth Strange Situation, the Bayley Child Development Scales – 3rd ed. and the Maternal Style questionnaire were used as assessment tools. The results show a difference between groups in cognitive and language performance. Children with insecure attachment patterns had lower scores on tests that assessed the development of both domains. These results demonstrate the importance of the relationship between mother and child as a protective factor of development.
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