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Early Child Care Experiences and Attachment Representations at Age 18 Years: Evidence from the NICHD Study of Early Child Care and Youth Development
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Waters, Theodore E. A.; Magro, Sophia W.; Alhajeri, Jude; Yang, Rui; Groh, Ashley; Haltigan, John D.; Holland, Ashley A.; Steele, Ryan D.; Bost, Kelly K.; Owen, Margaret T.; Vaughn, Brian E.; Booth-LaForce, Cathryn; Roisman, Glenn I. – Developmental Psychology, 2021
The role of early child care experiences on the development of the mother--child attachment relationship has been studied extensively. However, no prospective studies of early child care have addressed how these experiences might be reflected in the content of attachment representations during adolescence and beyond. The goal of this study was to…
Descriptors: Attachment Behavior, Child Care, Late Adolescents, Child Development
Maternal Adult Attachment Interview (AAI) Collected during Pregnancy Predicts Reflective Functioning in AAIs from Their First-Born Children 17 Years Later
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Steele, Howard; Perez, Alejandra; Segal, Francesca; Steele, Miriam – International Journal of Developmental Science, 2016
This paper reports on the longitudinal links between first-time mothers (N = 48) Adult Attachment Interviews (AAIs), provided during pregnancy, and their first-born children's AAIs, provided at age 16 years. The AAIs from the adolescents were scored for reflective functioning (RF), and this was found to be significantly linked to whether their…
Descriptors: Mothers, Attachment Behavior, Interviews, Adults
Does Mother's Rather than Father's Attachment Representation Contribute to the Adolescent's Attachment Representation? Commentary on: "Maternal Adult Attachment Interview (AAI) Collected During Pregnancy Predicts Reflective Functioning in AAIs from their First-Born Children 17 Years Later"
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Spangler, Gottfried – International Journal of Developmental Science, 2016
In this commentary, Spangler evaluates the Steele, Perez, Segal, and Steele report that arguede that reflective functioning in adolescence could not be predicted by quality of early infant attachment, but was associated with maternal (but not paternal) attachment representation, assessed before the adolescents' birth. Assuming that parental…
Descriptors: Mothers, Attachment Behavior, Interviews, Adults
Maternal Narratives Contribute to Foundations of the Child's Inner World. Commentary on: "Maternal Adult Attachment Interview (AAI) Collected During Pregnancy Predicts Reflective Functioning in AAIs from their First-Born Children 17 Years Later"
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Soares, Isabel; Baptista, Joana – International Journal of Developmental Science, 2016
In this commentary, Soares and Baptista state that the Steele, Perez, Segal, and Steele (2016) article contributed with an informative study that adolescents' reflective functioning (RF) is predicted by maternal attachment representation, which was assessed even before the youth were born by using the Adult Attachment Interview. The authors assert…
Descriptors: Mothers, Attachment Behavior, Interviews, Adults
The Development of Father-Child Attachment: Associations between Adult Attachment Representations, Recollections of Childhood Experiences and Caregiving
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McFarland-Piazza, Laura; Hazen, Nancy; Jacobvitz, Deborah; Boyd-Soisson, Erin – Early Child Development and Care, 2012
The association between fathers' adult attachment representations and their recollections of childhood experiences with their caregiving quality with their eight-month-old infants and with father-infant attachment classification was examined in a longitudinal study of 117 fathers and their infants. Sensitive caregiving was related to…
Descriptors: Children, Attachment Behavior, Classification, Infants
Fathers' Frightening Behaviours and Sensitivity with Infants: Relations with Fathers' Attachment Representations, Father-Infant Attachment, and Children's Later Outcomes
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Hazen, Nancy L.; McFarland, Laura; Jacobvitz, Deborah; Boyd-Soisson, Erin – Early Child Development and Care, 2010
This longitudinal study of 125 families investigated whether negative child outcomes related to fathers' frightening (FR) behaviours with infants would be mitigated if fathers were also sensitive. Results indicated that children whose fathers were frightening and insensitive with them during infancy showed the highest emotional under-regulation at…
Descriptors: Mothers, Caregiver Role, Infants, Parent Child Relationship
Security in Infancy, Childhood, and Adulthood: A Move to the Level of Representation.
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Main, Mary; And Others – Monographs of the Society for Research in Child Development, 1985
Discusses individual differences in attachment relationships as they relate to individual differences in mental representation, that is, in the individual's "internal working models" of attachment. Compares individual differences in security of attachment to each parent as assessed in the Ainsworth Strange Situation in infancy to diverse…
Descriptors: Attachment Behavior, Emotional Response, Fathers, Infants
Attachment Representations in Mothers, Fathers, Adolescents, and Clinical Groups: A Meta-analytic Search for Normative Data.
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van Ijzendoorn, Marinus H; Bakermans-Kranenburg, Marian J. – Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 1996
This meta-analysis on 33 studies, including more than 2,000 Adult Attachment Interview (AAI) classifications, presents distributions of AAI classifications in samples of nonclinical fathers and mothers, in adolescents, in samples from different cultures, and in clinical groups. Fathers, adolescents, and participants from different countries show…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Affective Behavior, Attachment Behavior, Behavior Standards