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Direct linkMaría del Pilar Montealegre-Ramón; María Teresa Martínez-Fuentes; Julio Pérez-López; Purificación Sierra-García – Early Child Development and Care, 2024
The study aims to clarify the relation between maternal sensitivity and infant attachment security during the first two years of life. A systematic search has been carried out in six databases (Medline, PsycINFO, Web of Science, Science Direct, Scopus and Psychology and Behavioural) between January 2010 and February 2023. The terms used for the…
Descriptors: Mothers, Infants, Parent Child Relationship, Interaction
Robert J. Sternberg; Maren Stern – Roeper Review, 2025
Just as children have fairly consistent attachment styles toward parents, we argue that parents have fairly consistent attachment styles toward children. It generally will be easiest for gifted children to develop their gifts and display them successfully if their parents were securely attached to them. But the children who have experienced…
Descriptors: Parent Child Relationship, Attachment Behavior, Gifted, Child Development
Sara Cibralic; Jane Kohlhoff; Susan Morgan; Nancy Wallace; Corey Lieneman; Catherine McMahon; Valsamma Eapen – Journal of Early Childhood Research, 2025
Using a cross-sectional design, this study explored attachment insecurity and disorganization (assessed using the Strange Situation Procedure) in 90 toddlers (aged 14-24 months) with and without autism traits and assessed the associations between autism traits (severity and profiles) and both developmental level and attachment classification. Our…
Descriptors: Parent Child Relationship, Attachment Behavior, Toddlers, Autism Spectrum Disorders
Min-An Chao; Ching-Ling Cheng – Infant and Child Development, 2025
While the relationship between secure attachment and emotion regulation has been extensively investigated, there is relatively little information about the trajectory of emotion regulation in childhood and whether changes in emotion regulation would mediate the relation between mother-child secure attachment and independence. A latent growth…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Child Development, Emotional Response, Self Control
Or Dagan; Carlo Schuengel; Marije L. Verhage; Sheri Madigan; Glenn I. Roisman; Kristin Bernard; Robbie Duschinsky; Marian Bakermans-Kranenburg; Jean-François Bureau; Abraham Sagi-Schwartz; Rina D. Eiden; Maria S. Wong; Geoffrey L. Brown; Isabel Soares; Mirjam Oosterman; R. M. Pasco Fearon; Howard Steele; Carla Martins; Ora Aviezer – Child Development, 2024
An individual participant data meta-analysis was conducted to test pre-registered hypotheses about how the configuration of attachment relationships to mothers and fathers predicts children's language competence. Data from seven studies (published between 1985 and 2014) including 719 children (M[subscript age]: 19.84 months; 51% female; 87% White)…
Descriptors: Parent Child Relationship, Attachment Behavior, Fathers, Mothers
Elisabetta Lombardi; Cinzia Di Dio; Elizabeth Meins; Chiara Giovanelli; Franca Crippa; Daniela Traficante; Antonella Marchetti; Lucia Leonilde Carli – International Journal of Behavioral Development, 2025
The quality of the maternal communication plays a critical role in the development of secure infant-caregiver attachment. This relationship may be mediated by the caregivers' capacity to recognize and appropriately respond to the child's mental states (i.e., mind-mindedness). To specifically explore the role of mind-mindedness in the relationship…
Descriptors: Metacognition, Mothers, Attachment Behavior, Infants
Jana Runze; Annemieke M. Witte; Marinus H. Van IJzendoorn; Mirjam Oosterman; Marian J. Bakermans-Kranenburg – Child & Youth Care Forum, 2025
Background: The transmission of attachment from parent to child is a well-known phenomenon. Previous research documented evidence supporting the transmission of attachment from parents to their children, with parental sensitivity serving a mediating role. Nevertheless, a "transmission gap" exists. Objective: In the current pre-registered…
Descriptors: Attachment Behavior, Parent Child Relationship, Parent Attitudes, Predictor Variables
Magda Matetovici; Anouk Spruit; Cristina Colonnesi; Mauricio Garnier-Villarreal; Marc Noom – Infant Mental Health Journal: Infancy and Early Childhood, 2025
Acknowledging that the parent-child attachment is a dyadic relationship, we investigated differences between pairs of parents and preschool children based on gender configurations in the association between attachment and problem behavior. We looked at mother-daughter, mother-son, father-daughter, and father-son dyads, but also compared mothers…
Descriptors: Parent Child Relationship, Preschool Children, Mothers, Daughters
Sema Soydan; Ayber Acar; Kamile Mutlu – European Early Childhood Education Research Journal, 2025
The present study aimed to investigate the mediating role of children's working memory levels in the relationship between attachment insecurity levels and emotion regulation skills. A total of 150 children aged 5 years, 75 girls and 75 boys, were selected by the stratified cluster sampling method and their mothers participated in the study. The…
Descriptors: Parent Child Relationship, Attachment Behavior, Short Term Memory, Emotional Response
Courtlyn Fields; Kyle Rawn; Peggy S. Keller – Journal of American College Health, 2025
Objective: The COVID-19 pandemic and ensuing lockdown disrupted daily life and was related to increased mental health problems across the developmental spectrum, including for emerging adults. Understanding factors that contribute to adjustment during such national crises is critical, and attachment theory may provide a valuable framework for…
Descriptors: College Students, Mothers, Fathers, Attachment Behavior
Lianne van Setten; Annick Ledebt; Mirjam Oosterman; Carlo Schuengel; Marleen H. M. de Moor – SAGE Open, 2024
The secure base phenomenon was ascribed to changes in exploration observed during Ainsworth's Strange Situation Procedure (SSP), related to the quality of the attachment relationship. However, infant temperament was not taken into consideration. The current study aims to replicate Ainsworth's findings regarding infant exploration and attachment…
Descriptors: Infant Behavior, Attachment Behavior, Personality Traits, Mothers
Funda Çitil Canbay; Elif Tugçe Çitil; Nuriye Degirmen – Early Child Development and Care, 2024
The study aimed to compare the effects of breastfeeding education and skin-to-skin contact on breastfeeding efficiency and maternal attachment. This study was a three-group randomized controlled study. This study was conducted with 92 women in a delivery room in Türkiye between October 2021 and May 2022. The study consists of continuous early SSC…
Descriptors: Infants, Nutrition, Parent Child Relationship, Mothers
Yan Yang; Song Li; Fang Xie; Xu Chen – Educational Psychology Review, 2024
Academic adjustment is an important task for students, traditionally encompassing three major constructs: academic motivation (e.g., academic self-efficacy), engagement (e.g., persistence with schoolwork), and achievement (e.g., grade point average). Although theoretical links between parent-child attachment and academic adjustment have been…
Descriptors: Students, Children, Adolescents, Parent Child Relationship
Xuefen Jiang; Changlin Liu; Xiao Xiao; Youlong Zhan – European Journal of Developmental Psychology, 2024
Parental attachment promotes moral maturity in adolescents by improving empathy. Narcissism, one of the three dark personalities, affects both empathy and moral development. However, little is known about how narcissism moderates the influence of parental attachment on moral development in adolescents. A total of 1,574 Chinese middle school…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Middle School Students, Attachment Behavior, Parent Child Relationship
Trish Mook – ProQuest LLC, 2024
Risky sexual behaviors in adolescence continue to be a social problem that impacts individuals, families, and communities across the United States. Previous research showed that parents who actively talk with their adolescents about sex and intimacy topics reduce their likelihood of engaging in these behaviors. Still, less is known about what…
Descriptors: Attachment Behavior, Family Relationship, Sexuality, Correlation
