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Psicologia

Print version ISSN 0874-2049

Psicologia vol.20 no.1 Lisboa  2006

 

Vinculacão em mães adolescentes e seus bebés

Ines Jongenelen1

Isabel Soares 2

Karin Grossmann 3

Carla Martins 4

 

 

Resumo: Neste artigo, as autoras apresentam uma investigação empírica com mães adolescentes e seus bebés, conduzida sob a perspectiva da Teoria da Vinculação de Bowlby.

Quarenta adolescentes e seus bebés foram avaliados na gravidez e 12.º mês do pós­‑parto, com base, respectivamente, na Adult Attachment Interview e na Situa­ção Estranha. Os resultados revelam que a maioria dos bebés apresenta uma orga­ni­za­ção de vinculação segura à mãe, aos 12 meses de idade. Não foi encon­trada uma associação significativa entre a classificação das mães na AAI e a clas­si­fi­ca­ção dos seus bebés na Situação Estranha, quer ao nível dos três padrões, quer em fun­ção da dimensão segurança versus insegurança da vinculação.

Palavras‑chave: vinculação, maternidade na adolescência

 

 

Attachment organization in adolescent mothers and their infants

Abstract: Within Bowlby’s attachment theory framework, an empirical research with forty adoles­cent mothers and their infants assessed during pregnancy and at 12th months post­partum is presented. Our results show no statistically significant pattern of inter­generational transmission of attachment from mother to infant, and a substantial number of infants classified as secure to the mother at 12 months of age.

Key‑words: attachment, adolescent motherhood

 

 

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1 Professora do Instituto Superior Dom Afonso III. Correspondência sobre este artigo de­ve­rá ser enviada para o e‑mail ijongenelen@hotmail.com.

2 Professora catedrática do Departamento de Psicologia, Instituto de Educação e Psicolo­gia, Universidade do Minho.

3 Investigadora aposentada da Universidade de Regensburg, Alemanha.

4 Professora auxiliar do Departamento de Psicologia, Instituto de Educação e Psicologia, Universidade do Minho.