Semi-structured Interviewing Study On The Quality Of Primary School Children’s Attachment Relationship

The originator of attachment theory John Bowlby point out that attachment is a strong and enduring emotional connection formed between the individual and the caregiver(usually a parent).Compared with infants and adults,children have the specificity in their own development.With the development of the concrete operation,they begin to internalize external rules,and understand the psychologies and actions of others.Good attachment relationship contributes to children social development,and when the relationship is broken,children are more likely to have psychological behavior problems.Thus,the estimation of children attachment relationship quality attached more and more researcher’s interest.The present study used Yael etal.,Childhood Attachment Interview developed based on the Strange Situation Procedure and Adult Attachment Interview.Assessment of infant attachment relationship between the strange situation procedure is the baby and parents in the strange situation, separation and reunion, the babies in significant behavioral responses to evaluate the infant’s attachment style was observed. Adult Attachment Interview the study of attachment from the explicit behavior level to the mental representations of attachment figures,in an interview, adults need to recall and reflection on the parental attachment related situations and experiences.Evaluate the quality of attachment relationships by evaluating the retrieval of memories of degree of difficulty, emotion expression and reflection of parents to provide emotional comfort.The CAI is a semi-structured interview.it based on the above two kinds of attachment research paradigm,on the one hand know the hearts of children think their parents how to provide emotional responses, and the degree of difficulty of to get this response;on the other hand through the observation of children interview process to determine the behavior of the external attachment style.The present study used the tool of Children Attachment Interview outline,combining quantitative with qualitative research techniques,and 40 participants whose age from 8 to 13 were selected by the CBCL and interviewed for an average of29.5 minutes,forming the text of 2.3 million words,This studies contains two parts,thefirst part was analyzed by qualitatively,and the second part explored the relationship between children attachment and resilience basis on 9 subscales of Children Attachment Interview appraisal handbook,by the way of quantitative.At last,the present study draws conclusions as follow:1.The result of Children Attachment Interview.(1)During middle childhood,the attachment styles of child had been internalized and reflected in the internal representation.(2)All of the 40 children could accept interview smoothly,which indicate that the children attachment interview outline is suitable for studying attachment in the middle childhood.(3)The child achieved the internal sense of safety by approaching to the attachment figures.and increased in demand for affective interaction.2.The result of analyzing the scale of Children Attachment Interview appraisal.(1)The results demonstrate the significance difference is found between gender in scale of Emotional Openness,Dismissal/Derogation of Attachment and Balance of Positive and Negative References to Attachment Figures.(2)The significance difference is found between family backgrounds in scale of idealization of father.(3)The resilience was significance related to the level of children attachment.3.The result of children attachment styles.There are 21 children of secure attachment,17 children of dismissing attachment and2 children of preoccupied attachment among the 40 children.(1)The significance difference is found between attaching styles in subscale of Children Attachment Interview.(2)The resilience present significance difference in attaching styles.