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The article sketches the history of the study of Vygotsky’s legacy in the Soviet Union and the West and then switches to a brief discussion of the origin of the book Understanding Vygotsky published 30 years ago. Several features and shortcomings of the book are discussed and it is shown that recent publications partly fill the gaps in our knowledge. This is illustrated by a succinct discussion of the contributions to the special issue which show that Vygotsky’s legacy continues to inspire the modern researcher.
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van der Horst FCP, Zetterqvist Nelson K, van Rosmalen L, van der Veer R. A tale of four countries: How Bowlby used his trip through Europe to write the WHO report and spread his ideas. J Hist Behav Sci 2020; 56:169-185. [PMID: 31746007 PMCID: PMC7496263 DOI: 10.1002/jhbs.22016] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/10/2023]
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Attachment theory, developed by child psychiatrist John Bowlby, is considered a major theory in developmental psychology. Attachment theory can be seen as resulting from Bowlby's personal experiences, his psychoanalytic education, his subsequent study of ethology, and societal developments during the 1930s and 1940s. One of those developments was the outbreak of World War II and its effects on children's psychological wellbeing. In 1950, Bowlby was appointed WHO consultant to study the needs of children who were orphaned or separated from their families for other reasons and needed care in foster homes or institutions. The resulting report is generally considered a landmark publication in psychology, although it subsequently met with methodological criticism. In this paper, by reconstructing Bowlby's visit to several European countries, on the basis of notebooks and letters, the authors shed light on the background of this report and the way Bowlby used or neglected the findings he gathered.
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- Frank C. P. van der Horst
- Department of Psychology, Education & Child StudiesErasmus School of Social and Behavioral Sciences, Erasmus University RotterdamRotterdamThe Netherlands
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- Centre for Child and Family StudiesInstitute of Education and Child Studies, Leiden UniversityLeidenThe Netherlands
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- Centre for Child and Family StudiesInstitute of Education and Child Studies, Leiden UniversityLeidenThe Netherlands
- Department of PsychologyUniversity of MagallanesPunta ArenasChile
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Harry Harlow, famous for his experiments with rhesus monkeys and cloth and wire mothers, was visited by psychiatrist and psychoanalyst John Bowlby and by child psychologist Bruno Bettelheim in 1958. They made similar observations of Harlow's monkeys, yet their interpretations were strikingly different. Bettelheim saw Harlow's wire mother as a perfect example of the 'refrigerator mother', causing autism in her child, while Bowlby saw Harlow's results as an explanation of how socio-emotional development was dependent on responsiveness of the mother to the child's biological needs. Bettelheim's solution was to remove the mother, while Bowlby specifically wanted to involve her in treatment. Harlow was very critical of Bettelheim, but evaluated Bowlby's work positively.
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van der Horst FCP, van der Veer R, Duschinsky R. Such stuff as dreams are made on: John Bowlby and the interpretation of dreams. Attach Hum Dev 2020; 22:593-605. [PMID: 32400293 DOI: 10.1080/14616734.2020.1748671] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/24/2022]
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In this paper, newly uncovered archival material from the Bowlby archives is presented on Bowlby's own dreams and dream interpretation. Although he was critical of orthodox psychoanalysis, Bowlby appears to have been seriously involved in Freudian dream interpretation in the 1930s and 1940s. Here, we present in annotated form his own interpretations of several of his dreams from that time and a series of lectures on dreams. In Attachment and Loss, classic dream interpretation is absent and Bowlby used the content of dreams as a reflection of the influence of real-life experiences on the representations of attachment relations, with a clear focus on grief, loss, and mourning. Bowlby's shift from psychoanalysis to a more behavioral approach and the introduction of the concept of "defensive exclusion" to supplant Freud's concept of "repression" may have led him to think about how grief and mourning may affect the content of our dreams.
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- Frank C P van der Horst
- Department of Psychology, Education & Child Studies, Erasmus University Rotterdam , Rotterdam, The Netherlands
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- Centre for Child and Family Studies, Leiden University , Leiden, The Netherlands.,School of Psychology, University of Magallanes , Punta Arenas, Chile
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- Department of Public Health and Primary Care, University of Cambridge , Cambridge, UK
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van der Horst FCP, van Rosmalen L, van der Veer R. Research notes: John Bowlby's critical evaluation of the work of René Spitz. Hist Psychol 2019; 22:205-208. [PMID: 31021119 DOI: 10.1037/hop0000127b] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/09/2023]
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In the history of psychology and theoretical discourse on the socioemotional development of children, the names Bowlby and Spitz are often mentioned in tandem. Both men were hugely interested in research on the consequences of maternal deprivation for young infants. However, though they would appear to have been thinking along the same lines and often referenced each other's work, it turns out they held very different views on the dynamic assessment and theoretical underpinning of their observations (Bowlby, 1960; Spitz, 1960). Even though some of this became public when they criticized each other after Bowlby's publication in 1960, newly uncovered archival material1 detailing Bowlby's reflections on several meetings with Spitz enables us to look more closely at their differences of opinion. These meetings took place in the spring of 1950, when Bowlby visited the United States for a research project for the World Health Organization (WHO). (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2019 APA, all rights reserved).
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The seventh and last chapter of Vygotsky's Thinking and Speech (1934) is generally considered as his final word in psychology. It is a long chapter with a complex argumentative structure in which Vygotsky gives his view on the relationship between thinking and speech. Vygotsky's biographers have stated that the chapter was dictated in the final months of Vygotsky's life when his health was rapidly deteriorating. Although the chapter is famous, its structure has never been analyzed in any detail. In the present article we reveal its rhetorical structure and show how Vygotsky drew on many hitherto unrevealed sources to convince the reader of his viewpoint.
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- René van der Veer
- Department of EducationLeiden UniversityLeiden2311The Netherlands
- School of PsychologyUniversity of MagallanesPunta Arenas01855Chile
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- Department of PsychologyMoscow University of Medicine and DentistryMoscow127473Russia
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On the basis of both published and unpublished manuscripts written from 1914 to 1917, this article gives an overview of Lev Vygotsky's early ideas. It turns out that Vygotsky was very much involved in issues of Jewish culture and politics. Rather surprisingly, the young Vygotsky rejected all contemporary ideas to save the Jewish people from discrimination and persecution by creating an autonomous state in Palestine or elsewhere. Instead, until well into 1917, Vygotsky proposed the rather traditional option of strengthening the spiritual roots of the Jews by returning to the religious writings. Socialism was rejected, because it merely envisioned the compulsory redistribution of material goods and 'man lives not by bread alone'. It was only after the October Revolution that Vygotsky switched from arguments in favour of the religious faith in the Kingship of God to the communist belief in a Radiant Future.
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- René van der Veer, Department of Education, Leiden University, PO Box 9555, 2300 RB Leiden, The Netherlands.
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A review of the references to the works of the Soviet scholar Piotr Ya. Gal'perin revealed the inadequacy of the reception of his contribution to psychology in the West. He is usually referred to as the author of concrete instructional techniques whereas in actual fact his work was much broader in scope and encompassed original contributions to fundamental problems of psychology.
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Nicolopoulou and Weintraub (1996) raised doubts about the extent of the relevance of the Humboldtian tradition for Vygotsky's concept of culture, and his semiotic approach in general. However, these doubts are unfounded—Vygotsky was in direct contact with the 19th-century German traditions of philosophical analyses of language, as well as with their Russian elaborations. Furthermore, Vygotsky borrowed theoretical notions from two distinct traditions of thought—often contrasted (by Soviet sources) as 'idealist' and 'materialist.' Defying the demand to make such contrasts mutually exclusive, Vygotsky tried to blend productive moments from each of them into his approach. He was not a 'cultural relativist' in the sense of present-day North American social discourse. It is suggested that the concepts of development and relativism are in need of further elaboration, in ways that allow recognition of local progress while avoiding global claims where the bases of comparison are not made explicit.
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Mesman J, van IJzendoorn M, Behrens K, Carbonell OA, Cárcamo R, Cohen-Paraira I, de la Harpe C, Ekmekçi H, Emmen R, Heidar J, Kondo-Ikemura K, Mels C, Mooya H, Murtisari S, Nóblega M, Ortiz JA, Sagi-Schwartz A, Sichimba F, Soares I, Steele H, Steele M, Pape M, van Ginkel J, van der Veer R, Wang L, Selcuk B, Yavuz M, Zreik G. Is the ideal mother a sensitive mother? Beliefs about early childhood parenting in mothers across the globe. International Journal of Behavioral Development 2016. [DOI: 10.1177/0165025415594030] [Citation(s) in RCA: 83] [Impact Index Per Article: 10.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/15/2022]
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In this article, we test the hypothesis that beliefs about the ideal mother are convergent across cultures and that these beliefs overlap considerably with attachment theory’s notion of the sensitive mother. In a sample including 26 cultural groups from 15 countries around the globe, 751 mothers sorted the Maternal Behavior Q-Set to reflect their ideas about the ideal mother. The results show strong convergence between maternal beliefs about the ideal mother and attachment theory’s description of the sensitive mother across groups. Cultural group membership significantly predicted variations in maternal sensitivity belief scores, but this effect was substantially accounted for by group variations in socio-demographic factors. Mothers living in rural versus urban areas, with a low family income, and with more children, were less likely to describe the ideal mother as highly sensitive. Cultural group membership did remain a significant predictor of variations in maternal sensitivity belief scores above and beyond socio-demographic predictors. The findings are discussed in terms of the universal and culture-specific aspects of the sensitivity construct.
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- Judi Mesman
- Centre for Child and Family Studies, Leiden University, the Netherlands
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- Centre for Child and Family Studies, Leiden University, the Netherlands
- University of Magallanes, Punta Arenas, Chile
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- Centre for Child and Family Studies, Leiden University, the Netherlands
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- Centre for Child and Family Studies, Leiden University, the Netherlands
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- Centre for Child and Family Studies, Leiden University, the Netherlands
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- Catholic University of Uruguay, Montevideo, Uruguay
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- The New School for Social Research, New York, NY, USA
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- The New School for Social Research, New York, NY, USA
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- Centre for Child and Family Studies, Leiden University, the Netherlands
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- Centre for Child and Family Studies, Leiden University, the Netherlands
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- Centre for Child and Family Studies, Leiden University, the Netherlands
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- Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China
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van Rosmalen L, van der Horst FCP, van der Veer R. From secure dependency to attachment: Mary Ainsworth's integration of Blatz's security theory into Bowlby's attachment theory. Hist Psychol 2016; 19:22-39. [PMID: 26844649 DOI: 10.1037/hop0000015] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/05/2023]
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John Bowlby is generally regarded as the founder of attachment theory, with the help of Mary Ainsworth. Through her Uganda and Baltimore studies Ainsworth provided empirical evidence for attachment theory, and she contributed the notion of the secure base and exploratory behavior, the Strange Situation Procedure and its classification system, and the notion of maternal sensitivity. On closer scrutiny, many of these contributions appear to be heavily influenced by William Blatz and his security theory. Even though Blatz's influence on Ainsworth has been generally acknowledged, this article, partly based on understudied correspondence from several personal archives, is the first to show which specific parts of attachment theory can be traced back directly to Blatz and his security theory. When Ainsworth started working with Bowlby in the 1950s, around the time he turned to evolutionary theory for an explanation of his findings, she integrated much of Blatzian security theory into Bowlby's theory in the making and used her theoretical and practical experience to enrich attachment theory. Even though Blatz is hardly mentioned nowadays, several of his ideas live on in attachment theory.
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Rodrigo A, van der Veer R, Vermeer HJ, van IJzendoorn MH. From foundling homes to day care: a historical review of childcare in Chile. CAD SAUDE PUBLICA 2014; 30:461-72. [DOI: 10.1590/0102-311x00060613] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/03/2013] [Accepted: 01/13/2014] [Indexed: 11/22/2022] Open
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This article discusses significant changes in childcare policy and practice in Chile. We distinguish four specific periods of childcare history: child abandonment and the creation of foundling homes in the 19th century; efforts to reduce infant mortality and the creation of the health care system in the first half of the 20th century; an increasing focus on inequality and poverty and the consequences for child development in the second half of the 20th century; and, finally, the current focus on children’s social and emotional development. It is concluded that, although Chile has achieved infant mortality and malnutrition rates comparable to those of developed countries, the country bears the mark of a history of inequality and is still unable to fully guarantee the health of children from the poorest sectors of society. Recent initiatives seek to improve this situation and put a strong emphasis on the psychosocial condition of children and their families.
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- A Rodrigo
- Leiden University, The Netherlands; Universidad de Magallanes, Chile
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van Rosmalen L, van der Horst FC, van der Veer R. Of monkeys and men: Spitz and Harlow on the consequences of maternal deprivation. Attach Hum Dev 2012; 14:425-37. [DOI: 10.1080/14616734.2012.691658] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/28/2022]
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van der Veer R. In search of the unknown: introduction to the special issue. Integr Psychol Behav Sci 2012; 45:419-21. [PMID: 21626139 PMCID: PMC3181406 DOI: 10.1007/s12124-011-9174-7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/29/2022]
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The problem of aesthetic perception occupied Vygotsky throughout his life. Working in different research collectives or networks he worked out different answers but never reached a final solution. Inadequate and incomplete access to his writings unfortunately hinders us from understanding Vygotsky's ideas and his personal motives. Publication of his notebooks and unadulterated versions of his writings plus an analysis of his research networks will deepen our understanding.
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van Rosmalen L, van der Horst FCP, van der Veer R. An unexpected admirer of Ladygina-Kohts. Hist Psychol 2011; 14:412-415. [PMID: 22332293 DOI: 10.1037/a0025647] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/31/2023]
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Previously unknown correspondence between Nadya Nikolaevna Ladygina-Kohts, author of The Chimpanzee Child and the Human Child (1935), and Harry Harlow shows a reciprocal interest in, and admiration for, each other's work. In 1960 and 1961, they exchanged some 9 letters as well as numerous reprints and publications. The correspondence shows that Ladygina-Kohts and Harlow had been following each other's work for years and that Ladygina-Kohts's work may have been one of the major inspirations to Harlow's primate program.
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- Lenny van Rosmalen
- Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences, Department of Education and Child Studies, Centre for Child and Family Studies, Leiden University, Wassenaarseweg 52, Leiden (room 4.B36), Rapenburg 702311 EZ Leiden, Netherlands.
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At present readers of English have still limited access to Vygotsky’s writings. Existing translations are marred by mistakes and outright falsifications. Analyses of Vygotsky’s work tend to downplay the collaborative and experimental nature of his research. Several suggestions are made to improve this situation. New translations are certainly needed and new analyses should pay attention to the contextual nature of Vygotsky’s thinking and research practice.
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van der Horst FC, van der Veer R. Changing attitudes towards the care of children in hospital: a new assessment of the influence of the work of Bowlby and Robertson in the UK, 1940–1970. Attach Hum Dev 2009; 11:119-42. [DOI: 10.1080/14616730802503655] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/21/2022]
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van der Horst FCP, van der Veer R. Separation and divergence: the untold story of James Robertson's and John Bowlby's theoretical dispute on mother-child separation. J Hist Behav Sci 2009; 45:236-252. [PMID: 19575387 DOI: 10.1002/jhbs.20380] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/28/2023]
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The work of Robertson and Bowlby is generally seen as complementary, Robertson being the practically oriented observer and Bowlby focusing on theoretical explanations for Robertson's observations. The authors add to this picture an "untold story" of the collaboration between Robertson and Bowlby: the dispute between the two men that arose in the 1960s about the corollaries of separation and the ensuing personal animosity. On the basis of unique archival materials, this until now little known aspect of the history of attachment theory is extensively documented. The deteriorating relationship between Robertson and Bowlby is described against the background of different currents in psychoanalysis in Britain in the interbellum.
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van der Veer R. Review: The Way Things Are ALAN COSTALL AND OLE DREIER, Doing Things with Things: The Design and Use of Everyday Objects. Aldershot, UK: Ashgate, 2006. 242 pp. ISBN 0—7546—4656—4 (hbk). Theory & Psychology 2008. [DOI: 10.1177/09593543080180040602] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/16/2022]
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Gilissen R, Bakermans-Kranenburg MJ, van IJzendoorn MH, van der Veer R. Parent–child relationship, temperament, and physiological reactions to fear-inducing film clips: Further evidence for differential susceptibility. J Exp Child Psychol 2008; 99:182-95. [PMID: 17681350 DOI: 10.1016/j.jecp.2007.06.004] [Citation(s) in RCA: 44] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/20/2007] [Revised: 06/19/2007] [Accepted: 06/19/2007] [Indexed: 01/24/2023]
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Recent studies have supported the intriguing hypothesis that highly reactive infants are most susceptible to the effect of parenting. This study replicates and extends an earlier study on 4-year-olds concerning higher susceptibility of more fearful children to the quality of their relationships with their mothers, as shown by their physiological reactions to fear-inducing film clips. Two groups of children (4- and 7-year-olds) were shown the same fear-inducing and neutral film clips. During the film clips, their skin conductance and heart rate variability were measured. Both 4- and 7-year-olds responded to the fear-inducing film clips with increases in skin conductance and decreases in heart rate variability. A secure relationship affected the reactivity to fearful stimuli in temperamentally more fearful children but not in less fearful children irrespective of children's ages. Our findings add to the growing literature showing that children high in negative emotion are more susceptible to positive as well as negative rearing influences for better and for worse.
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- Renske Gilissen
- Centre for Child and Family Studies, Leiden University, 2300 RB Leiden, The Netherlands
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Gilissen R, Koolstra CM, van Ijzendoorn MH, Bakermans-Kranenburg MJ, van der Veer R. Physiological reactions of preschoolers to fear-inducing film clips: Effects of temperamental fearfulness and quality of the parent–child relationship. Dev Psychobiol 2007; 49:187-95. [PMID: 17299791 DOI: 10.1002/dev.20188] [Citation(s) in RCA: 46] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/11/2022]
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This study investigates young children's fright reactions induced by television. The central question concerns the degree to which the impact can be predicted by temperamental fearfulness and the quality of the parent-child relationship. Using a procedure for recording simultaneously skin conductance (SCL) and heart rate variability (RMSSD), 78 3- and 4-year-olds were shown two brief TV film episodes (one fear-inducing and one emotionally neutral). The children responded to fear-inducing film stimuli with an increase in SCL-reactivity and a decrease in RMSSD-reactivity. Furthermore, temperamentally more fearful children showed most electrodermal reactivity when their relationship with the parent was less harmonious. More fearful children were more susceptible to the quality of the relationship with their parent, which provides support for the differential susceptibility hypothesis.
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- Renske Gilissen
- Centre for Child & Family Studies Leiden University, The Netherlands
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van der Veer R. School vs Child: In Search of Mitigating Circumstances. Culture & Psychology 2005. [DOI: 10.1177/1354067x05052350] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/16/2022]
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Langhout (2005) presents an account of a modern school, the degree of control over the students exerted by the teachers, and the ways the children resist this pressure. In my reaction I point out that the control mechanisms she describes form part of a long tradition in the history of education and that they may be inevitable. I also suggest that to make her stronger claims more convincing we would need rather more information.
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The authors present the historical analysis of one of the central questions in psychology: how and why the nonautomatic, psychological level of regulation (in contrast to automatic physiological processes) emerges both in evolution and in everyday context of activity. They discuss several approaches (by Lipps, Groos, Stern, James, Dewey, Claparède, Pavlov, and Leontiev) that culminated in the system of ideas developed by Galperin, one of the key figures in the cultural -historical activity theory. The authors analyze the relation of Galperin's ideas to Vygotsky's theoretical framework and then focus on Galperin's account of the origin and functions of mental activity. Galperin's contribution is highly relevant for understanding the role of psychological regulation and for contemporary research on cognition, consciousness, and conscious awareness.
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van der Veer R. Primitive Mentality Reconsidered. Culture & Psychology 2003. [DOI: 10.1177/1354067x0392005] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/16/2022]
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van der Veer R. The concept of development and the development of concepts. Education and development in Vygotsky’s thinking. Eur J Psychol Educ 1994. [DOI: 10.1007/bf03172902] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/20/2022]
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