Vínculos afectivos y desarrollo emocional en niñas de 3 años con madres en condición de reclusión

Abstract

The main objective of the following research is inquire, observe and document the perception of emotions link to attachment in three years old children with their mothers who are in jail in the city of Bogotá through a game of perception of facial expressions and stories told by the mothers to wide our perception, as specialists of childhood, about the kindergartens that are located in the reclusion centers to recognize other realities of Colombian childhood. This approach exercise had a theoretical revision about the attachment concept and the emotions that are linked to this concept: crying, happiness, trust, anger, ambivalence and displeasure. Also there was a revision of theories about the social and affective development of children in these ages to describe their emotional development. There was also a design and execution of tools created to gather information: interviews with the mothers who are in prison, a game of perception of emotions linked to attachment situations and interviews with the childminders of the kids. At the end, the results showed that the affective and attachment links between mothers and their children had a very important basis in the life stories and the affective bonds that they have in their family circle. In addition we found that there is not any negative aspects bond to the reclusion situation in the emotion development of the kids because their mothers have created protection strategies to keep them away of any negative situation associated with the condition of imprisonment.