Well Being And Resilience: Mechanisms of Transmission of Health and Risk

Strange Situation Procedure is a structured observation. The infant is videotaped in a playroom during a series of eight structured 3-min episodes involving the baby, the mother, and a female stranger. During the observation the mother leaves and rejoins the infant twice, first leaving the infant with the female stranger, then leaving the infant alone to be rejoined by the stranger. The procedure is designed to be mildly stressful in order to increase the intensity of activation of the infant's attachment behavior. Videotapes are coded for four attachment classifications: secure, avoidant, ambivalent-resistant/dependent and disorganised.

NNNS is a 30-minute, 128-item assessment of neurologic, behavioural, and stress/abstinence signs that evaluates the full range of infant neurobehavior. It has 12 summary scales: habituation, attention, arousal, regulation, number of handling procedures, quality of movement, excitability, lethargy, number of non-optimal reflexes, number of asymmetric reflexes, hypertonicity, and hypotonicity and an additional stress/abstinence scale.

The BSID III-R is a structured observation test assessing cognition, language and motor skills.

Saliva samples are collected before and 20 and 40 minutes after NNNS (4 weeks), still-face procedure (16 weeks) and Strange Situation Procedure (52 weeks)

CIB is a global measure that looks at parent-child and dyadic affective states and interactive styles. Independent behavioral codes are aggregated into eight higher order constructs: The three child constructs are engagement involvement, withdrawal, and compliance; and the two dyadic constructs are dyadic reciprocity and dyadic negative states.

PANSS, MADRS and BRMRS are rating scales based on a semistructured interview. PANSS 5-factor model assesses the presence or absence of positive, negative, disorganisation, excitement and emotional distress symptoms (van der Gaag et al., 2006). MADRS assesses the presence and severity of 10 core symptoms of depression. BRMRS assesses the presence and severity of 11 core symptoms of hypomania/mania

ACES is a 25-item self report measure that assesses exposure to childhood emotional, physical, or sexual abuse, and household dysfunction during childhood.

AAI is a semi-structured interview, consisting of 20 questions and probes, allowing categorisation of an adult individual's state of mind with regard to attachment. (i.e. Secure, Dismissing and Preoccupied, Unresolved and Cannot Classify) The Adult Attachment Projective (AAP, George & West, 2012) consists of eight drawings of attachment situations dealing with illness, solitude, separation, loss, and abuse, along with one neutral scene, A narrative depiction of these drawings is transcribed and coded for attachment representation i.e.. secure, dismissing, preoccupied, or unresolved. PAM, is a self- report questionnaire assessing two dimensions of attachment, anxious and avoidant.

PCEQ, and CEQ assesses defensive processing associated with patterns of care-giving representation (George & Solomon, 2008). i.e. flexible integration, deactivation, cognitive disconnection and dimension of care-giving dysregulation as related to infant's secure, avoidant, ambivalent-resistant/dependent and disorganised attachment respectively.

The AMBIANCE measure is used to code disrupted caregiver behaviour during videotaped caregiver-infant interactions. The five dimensions of the AMBIANCE coding are: affective communication errors, role/boundary confusion, fearful/disorientation, intrusive/negative, and withdrawing behaviour. CIB is a global measure that looks at parent-child and dyadic affective states and interactive styles. Independent behavioral codes are aggregated into eight higher order constructs: The three adult constructs are sensitivity, intrusiveness, and limit-setting.

CIB is a global measure that looks at parent-child and dyadic affective states and interactive styles. Independent behavioral codes are aggregated into eight higher order constructs: The three adult constructs are sensitivity, intrusiveness, and limit-setting.

BSI-53 is a 53 item self-report inventory.

SAPAS is an eight-item screening interview for personality disorder.

RIST is a screening measure of general intelligence

SOS determines two main areas of social support, emotional support and practical support.

Questions evaluate experiences of life being unpredictable, uncontrollable and distressing during the previous 30 days, and whether the respondent has been feeling nervous or stressed.

Questions assess level of stress related to the parental role

Questions assess the parenting aspects of the marital relationship.

Ages And Stages Questionnaire Social-Emotional