Browsing by Subject "dissosiatiivinen oireilu"

A child with disorganized attachment behaves inconsistently in the strange situation procedure, and behavior typically includes disruptions of interaction. Because of phenotypical similarity, among others, it has been theorized that disorganized attachment would predict later dissociative symptomatology. The study aims to examine empirical studies concerning longitudinal associations between disorganized attachment in early childhood and later dissociative symptomatology. Literature on the subject was retrieved from the PubMed, Ovid-Medline and Google Scholar databases. Additionally, some articles were chosen from the references of the articles found in these databases and from similar articles that the websites suggested. This study includes five prospective longitudinal studies that examined the connections between disorganized attachment in early childhood and later dissociative symptomatology. In these studies, the participants were followed from early childhood to adolescence or young adulthood. The results were mixed: disorganized attachment was linked to later dissociative symptomatology only in some of the studies. Instead, other factors of the quality of early care, such as disruptions in parent-child interaction, proved to be more strongly linked to later dissociative symptomatology. When concerning later dissociative symptomatology, it’s possible that disorganized attachment is a potential but not a necessary concomitant of deficits in the quality of early care. However, interpretation of the study results was complicated by several methodological issues, such as lack the representativity in the samples and the variation in measures used to assess dissociative symptomatology. In the future, more research is needed to assess whether disorganized attachment is an independently linked to later dissociative symptomatology or only a possible concomitant of other challenges in the rearing environment.