Title: The risky situation: a procedure for assessing the father–child activation relationship
Abstract: Abstract Initial validation data are presented for the Risky Situation (RS), a 20‐minute observational procedure designed to assess the father–child activation relationship with children aged 12–18 months. The coding grid, which is simple and easy to use, allows parent–child dyads to be classified into three categories and provides an activation score. By having the same parent–child dyads participate in the Strange Situation (SS) and in the RS, researchers were able to demonstrate that the RS appears to evoke specific relationship patterns. Moreover, parental stimulation of risk‐taking, the central construct of the RS, was shown to play a significant role after controlling for child characteristics (sex and temperament). These results suggested that the RS has the potential to make a significant contribution to the study of the human relationship. Keywords: activation relationshipattachmentevolutionary developmental psychologyfatheringsex differencestemperament Acknowledgements The researchers would like to thank Luc Bouchard, François Bourassa, Julie Côté, Martin Doucet, Amélie Dubé, Caroline Dumont, Sébastien Gaumon, Geneviève Labrie and Marilou Tremblay for carrying out the risky situation and strange situation procedures; Diego Aguirre, Caroline Dumont, Marie‐Noëlle Gagnon and Jean Ramdé for coding the risky situation; Stéphanie Taillon and Yves Bachand for coding of parental behaviours in the risky situation; and finally Dr Jacinthe Émery for coding the strange situation. Notes 1. As our brain today is still the same as that of the hunter‐gathers of the Pleistocene Epoch, the period spanning from 1.8 million to 10,000 years ago (Tooby & Cosmides, Citation1990).
Publication Year: 2010
Publication Date: 2010-01-01
Language: en
Type: article
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