Social representations of Infant Attachment

This research is based on the attachment representations of the caregivers of children from 0 to 3 years of age belonging to networks of collaborators of the Chilean National Service for Minors. For this purpose, information was collected through interviews, with which social representations were extracted from the informants and then contrasted with documents of the public speeches of the selected institutions. The results of the research are the social representations obtained from the key informants, which are expressed in three points; concept of attachment, relevance of attachment and proposals to favor its development. This research concludes that the key informants represent the bond of attachment as a relationship between a child and a significant adult, valuing it according to the work they perform within a residence and the profession they exercise. Finally, when contrasting these social representations with the public discourse of the selected institutions, conceptual and practical differences between them are established.