Detailed analytics: Class distributions from representations from attachment (AAI) and caregiving (P-CAI)
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We restricted analysis to the three major AAI classifications (Autonomous, Dismissive and Preoccupied) since the examination of unresolved states of mind with respect to attachment, and how these states of mind may be related to later caregiving behaviors and thinking, was beyond the scope of this paper. Replacing the 10 AAI-Unresolved protocols with secondary classifications resulted in 46 parents (59.7%) classified as Autonomous, consistent with the van IJzendoorn and Bakermans-Kranenburg ( 1996 ) norms presented for the AAI (58% base rate). Seventeen parents (22.1%) were classified as Preoccupied and 14 (18.2%) as Dismissive. On the P-CAI, 50 parents were classified as Autonomous (64.9%), 16 as Dismissive (20.8%) and 11 as Preoccupied (14.3%). There were no assignments to the Disorganized category. Classification distributions did not differ for fathers, as compared to parents, neither with respect to the AAI (Likelihood exact ratio G(dos, 1) = 1.4, p = .49) nor regarding the P-CAI (Likelihood exact ratio G(dos, 1) = 2.4, p = .31).
Cross-tabulation of each parent’s attachment (AAI) and caregiving (P-CAI) classifications (Table 2) revealed strong concordance (fathers’ Likelihood exact ratio G(4, 1) = , p< .0001, Kappa = .61, p< .0001; mothers' Likelihood exact ratio G(cuatro, 1) = 25.4, p < .0001, Kappa = .58, p< .0001).Lees verder »Detailed analytics: Class distributions from representations from attachment (AAI) and caregiving (P-CAI)