The present study aimed to identify intergenerational patterns of attachment insecurity among grandmothers, adolescent grandchildren, and birth mothers in custodial grandfamilies and to test the relations among triadic attachment patterns and grandchild socioemotional outcomes. Prior research with custodial grandfamilies has found distinct "profiles" reflecting patterns of closeness between grandmothers, grandchildren, and birth mothers. However, no studies have tested patterns of attachment insecurity among members of the triad, despite the likelihood of attachment disruption in grandfamilies. Moreover, previous studies have only examined links between profile and grandmother outcomes or rudimentary grandchild outcomes. In a sample of 230 grandmother-grandchild dyads from a larger randomized controlled trial testing the efficacy of an online social intelligence training program for grandfamilies, latent profile analysis (LPA) was conducted to identify profiles of intergenerational attachment insecurity, using grandmother and grandchild reports. Profile differences in grandchild internalizing and externalizing problems, social skills, self-esteem, and prosocial behavior were examined. We identified three profiles: isolated mother, grandchild-linked, and disconnected. Overall, grandchildren in disconnected families (in which attachment insecurity between all three members of the triad was high) fared worst. Grandchildren in isolated mother families (in which only grandmother-grandchild attachment insecurity was low) fared best. A secure attachment relationship between grandmother and adolescent grandchild may buffer effects of attachment insecurity between the grandchild and birth mother. These findings inform intervention efforts and highlight the utility of family- and attachment-focused research for building understanding of custodial grandfamilies. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2023 APA, all rights reserved).

中文翻译：

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监护祖父家庭的代际依恋模式。

本研究旨在确定监护孙家庭中祖母、青少年孙子女和生母之间的代际依恋不安全模式，并测试三元依恋模式与孙子女社会情感结果之间的关系。先前对有监护权的祖家庭的研究发现，不同的“轮廓”反映了祖母、孙子和生母之间的亲密模式。然而，没有研究测试三合会成员之间的依恋不安全模式，尽管祖辈中的依恋可能会被破坏。此外，之前的研究仅考察了个人资料与祖母结局或基本孙辈结局之间的联系。在一项大型随机对照试验中，对 230 名祖母-孙子二人进行了样本测试，测试了针对祖孙家庭的在线社交智力培训计划的有效性，并利用祖母和孙子的报告，进行了潜在概况分析 (LPA)，以识别代际依恋不安全感的概况。研究人员检查了孙子内在和外在问题、社交技能、自尊和亲社会行为方面的差异。我们确定了三种情况：与世隔绝的母亲、与孙子有联系的以及与世隔绝的。总体而言，断绝关系的家庭（三合会的三个成员之间的依恋不安全感都很高）中的孙辈表现最差。孤立的母亲家庭中的孙子（其中只有祖母-孙子的依恋不安全感较低）表现最好。祖母和青春期孙子之间的安全依恋关系可以缓冲孙子和生母之间依恋不安全感的影响。这些发现为干预工作提供了信息，并强调了以家庭和依恋为中心的研究对于建立对监护祖父家庭的理解的效用。（PsycInfo 数据库记录 (c) 2023 APA，保留所有权利）。