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Direct linkLoeb, Emily L.; Kansky, Jessica; Narr, Rachel K.; Fowler, Caroline; Allen, Joseph P. – Journal of Early Adolescence, 2020
This study examined early adolescent romantic "churning," defined here as having a large number of boyfriends/girlfriends by age 13, as a problematic marker likely to predict hostility, abuse, and avoidance during conflict in later relationships. A sample of 184 adolescents was followed through age 24 to assess predictions of hostility,…
Descriptors: Dating (Social), Early Adolescents, Predictor Variables, Psychological Patterns
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
Download full textLanglois, Riel – BU Journal of Graduate Studies in Education, 2017
John Bowlby's (1982) attachment theory can be applied to an existing therapeutic framework to enhance the effectiveness of therapy. Using the Adult Attachment Inventory (AAI), a therapist can identify the type of attachment the client formed with his/her caregivers, and use this to navigate an authentic attachment between client and therapist.…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Attachment Behavior, Adults, Counselor Client Relationship
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
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
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
