Deficyty emocjonalne młodych dorosłych wychowanków rodzin zastępczych

• Authors: Aleksandra Jasielska , Marzena Buchnat Marzena

Title variants

EN

The Emotional Deficitsof Young Foster Care Alumni

• Languages of publication: PL

Abstracts

EN

The study was aimed to determine the role of attachment bond in emotional functioning in alexithy-mia and emotional processing in foster care alumni. The participants with experience of personal rejection – adult foster care alumni during the transition from foster care to adulthood (N = 29) and persons without such experience (N = 32) took part in the study. The Experiences in Close Relation-ships Scale, Toronto Alexithymia Scale and Emotional Processing Scale were used. Results present that insecure pattern of attachment occurs with alexithymia in ineffective emotional processing. We confront the results with the construct of emotion representations as the key to comprehend observed deficits in emotional functioning.

Keywords

EN

alexithymia; attachment theory; emotional processing; foster family; representation of emotion

• Publisher: Uniwersytet im. Adama Mickiewicza w Poznaniu
• Journal: Studia Edukacyjne
• Year: 2018
• Issue: 48
• Pages: 259-280

Dates

published

2018-04-15

Contributors

author

Aleksandra Jasielska

author

Marzena Buchnat Marzena

Identifiers

DOI

10.14746/se.2018.48.17