dear tina,
i'm also interested in that paper, could you also send it to me please?
thx, nina
2009/10/13 Tina Kimmel <[log in to unmask]>:
> Arly, Some of your questions can be answered by reading about the classic
> ways "attachment security" is measured. The gold standard (flawed though it
> is) is the Strange Situation, eg
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Ainsworth#A_Strange_Situation.
>
> Researchers can choose whatever group of individuals and families they want
> to look at. If breastfeeding was not specified, you know they included
> bottlefeeding families, unfortunately.
>
> I wrote a chapter on "Psychosocial Consequences of Not Breastfeeding" (with
> 50+ references) in my dissertation on breastfeeding policy. I can email it
> to you directly.
>
> I think it's very interesting stuff. You can see there were only a few
> studies (at that time in 2007, at least) which focussed directly on
> breastfeeding and attachment, but they all conclude that there is a positive
> correlation.
>
> A couple of studies also investigated the direction of causality between
> attachment and breastfeeding. They concluded that it goes both ways, ie,
> more attchment-engengering moms choose to breastfeed, but in addition, the
> act of breastfeeding itself causes mothers to be more
> attachment-engendering.
>
> Tina
>
> At 10:11 AM -0700 10,13,2009, Arly wrote:
>>
>> Questions:
>>
>> A) Do the classic attachment studies (such as the one by Lamb cited below)
>> specifically exclude formula feeding families as not normal by definition?
>> Have they conducted separate studies for formula feeding families, for
>> families w/stay at home mothers, stay at home fathers, and for families in
>> which no one gets to stay at home?
>>
>> B) Which behaviors under what circumstances are selected as "attachment
>> behavior measures" when observing a normal breastfeeding family?
>>
>> C) What exactly is meant by "no preference"? In what context?
>>
>> If anyone on Lactnet, or respected by Lactnetters, has addressed these
>> specific questions, I would like to get in contact. I am particularly
>> wondering if anyone has done their graduate research specifically focusing
>> on the differences in attachment between breastfeeding and formula feeding
>> families, with a review of the existing literature.
>>
>> Arly Helm, MS, IBCLC
>> -----------
>> Lamb's landmark longitudinal study* of mother-*infant* and father-*infant*
>> *attachment* was begun in 1974 to try to categorize^ the unique components
>> of father-*infant* *attachment*. Home observations^ of 7-, 8-, 12-, and
>> 13-month-old *infant*s _revealed no preference^ for either parent on
>> *attachment* behavior measures._
>>
>> *[*Lamb ME The development of mother-*infant* and father-*infant*
>> *attachment*s in the second year of life. /Dev Psychol./ 1977; 13:637-648]*
>>
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