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As suggested by various studies (Barone and Lionetti 2011; Ongari and Tomasi 2013; Pace et al. 2015; Steele et al. 2008), a secure maternal attachment state of mind can represent a protective factor against adverse outcomes associated with emotional deprivation and trauma, confirming adoption as a potential catch-up opportunity. While...

Objective: Compared to community adolescents (COM), adolescents placed in residential care (RC) or late adopted (LA) appear to show more emotional–behavioural problems. They also appear vulnerable in variables linked to emotional–behavioural problems, such as insecure–disorganized attachment and alexithymia. This study employs a mixed-method...

We investigated relationships between binge-eating symptoms and emotional-behavioral problems in 382 community-adolescents (aged 13-18 years, M = 15, SD = 1; 61% girls), analyzing gender differences. Few studies have investigated binge eating in community-adolescents and none have explored gender differences in Italy. Participants completed the...

Adopted adolescents show high rates of emotional-behavioral problems and they could also be more vulnerable to alexithymia, a risk factor for psychopathology in adolescents, that is more frequent in case of early relational trauma(s), often experienced by adoptees in pre-adoption life. However, no studies investigate alexithymia in adopted...

The Binge Eating Disorder (BED) resulted the most common eating disorder among teenagers. Many studies linked eating disorders during adolescence with insecure attachment representations and/or higher levels of alexithymia, but few studies investigated these variables specifically with respect to the risk of BED in adolescence. Besides, those...

Introduzione. La mentalizzazione rappresenta uno dei costrutti di maggiore interesse in ambito clinico (Allen e Fonagy, 2008). La letteratura di riferimento ha messo in luce, da un lato, il collegamento tra un cattivo funzionamento riflessivo (FR) e alcuni disturbi psicologici in età adulta ed evolutiva (Sharp e Venta, 2012), dall'altro, ha...

Parents' attachment representations and child–parent attachment have been shown to be associated, but these associations vary across populations (Verhage et al., 2016). The current study examined whether ecological factors may explain variability in the strength of intergenerational transmission of attachment, using individual participant data...

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Introduzione. Nell'ambito della teoria dell'attaccamento, diversi autori hanno individuato l'adozione di bambini in età prescolare e scolare come un «esperimento naturale» più significativo rispetto ad altri interventi di recupero sociale (Van IJzendoorn e Juffer, 2006). I bambini late-adopted hanno sperimentato di frequente alle esperienze...

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Background: There are few studies on late-adopted adolescents' outcomes -e.g., emotionalbehavioral problems, attachment and cognitive status- and their possible predictive factors, none from Italy. Objective: This paper aimed to investigate emotional-behavioral problems, attachment representations, and verbal skills in late-adopted adolescents...

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Objectives: There are few methods to assess attachment representations during adolescence, all showing strengths and limits. The Friends and Family Interview (FFI) is the only narrative interview considering a wide range of relevant domains in adolescents' life, including peer and sibling relationships, as well as self-esteem, relations with...

Introduction: Children with Disruptive Behavior Disorder (DBD) show severe impairments in academic, peer and family contexts, involving high cost for the communities. Several studies suggest that difficulties in attachment and emotional regulation are linked with the development of child psychopathology, as DBD. However, few studies have...

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Italian adolescents were confined at home for 3 months due to the COVID-19 pandemic, which exposed them to feelings of fear, uncertainty, and loneliness that may have increased their vulnerability to emotional-behavioral symptoms (e.g., anxiety) and binge-eating attitudes. Potential risk factors for these psychopathological symptoms are...

Attachment and Emotional Regulation [ER] strategies Cognitive Reappraisal [CR] and Expressive Suppression [ES] can be protective or risk factors for psychopathological symptoms, also interacting each other. Children in residential-care [RC], due to their previous negative experiences, showed difficulties in the development of secure attachments...

This study is an original investigation of the convergent validity of the Friends and Family Interview (FFI) with the Inventory of Parent and Peer Attachment (IPPA), involving teenagers living in either low-risk or at-risk contexts. Participants were 130 adolescents (12–19 years), 91 low-risk (community) and 39 at-risk (in residential-care)....

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A systematic review and meta-analysis were conducted to evaluate the quality and validity of Family Drawings (FD) with an Attachment-Based Coding System in assessing attachment representations among pre-school and school-age children. A literature search in notable databases identified 645 records, of which 20 were eligible after screening and...

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