A study of attachment of mother and child of preschool age
The article presents the results of a study of the relationship between quality of attachment to mother and attachment of the child to the mother. The study involved 30 dyad “child-mother”. Assessing attachment of the child to the mother was carried out using the technique of “the Questionnaire of evaluation types of attachment to mother” (Yekaterina Pupyryova, Galina Burmenskaya, 2007). We used the projective method of research: drawing “My mother & I”; the evaluation criteria, which are independently selected and expanded. To estimate the ratio of mother-to-child used the test-questionnaire, the emotional connection of mother and child (Natal'ya Vereshchaginа, Yelena Nikolayeva, 2009). The results of the study: the majority of the sample examined preschoolers included children with secure attachment to mother, just over a third of children belonged to unreliable type. The attitudes of mothers of children with safe type of attachment in the relationship is dominated by sensitivity to the needs of their child, the desire to create a socially acceptable form of behaviour. The mother in these relations is a reliable source of help and support for your child.