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Japanese Children's Reactions to Family Photographs: Associations with Mothers' Attachment Status
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Behrens, Kazuko Y.; Umemura, Tomo – Infant and Child Development, 2013
This study examined differences in children's responses to their family photographs within a sample of Japanese 6-year-olds ("N"?=?44), exploring associations with their mothers' attachment status. The differences in children's photo reactions were captured by a 5-point continuous scale to rate how engaged children were and how…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Young Children, Attachment Behavior, Mothers
Individual Differences in Responses to Unfamiliar Objects at Twenty-Three Months of Age.
Nakano, Shigeru; And Others – 1985
Examining relationships in the data from assessments conducted when Japanese infants were 7.5, 12, 23, and 27 months of age, this study provides evidence of an interaction between early attachment and temperamental dispositions. Specifically examined were 7.5-month-olds' stranger and separation distress and general fearfulness; 12-month-olds'…
Descriptors: Affective Behavior, Attachment Behavior, Foreign Countries, Individual Differences
Research and Clinical Center for Child Development Annual Report, 1986-1987. No. 10.
Miyake, Kazuo, Ed.; Chen, Shing-jen, Ed. – 1988
Provided in this annual report, the 10th of a series, are the texts of four papers presented at a preconference workshop on new directions for infancy research. The papers focus on the middle European contribution to infancy research, main themes in European research on infant perception and cognition, an innovative therapeutic approach to…
Descriptors: Affective Behavior, Attachment Behavior, Cognitive Development, Foreign Countries
Age of Female Adult Strangers as Determinant of Affective Behaviors of Japanese Toddlers.
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Takahashi, Keiko – Merrill-Palmer Quarterly, 1990
Examined effects of the age of adult female strangers on the affective behavior of 60 Japanese toddlers. The first study investigated the importance of the age discrepancy between mothers and female strangers aged 23 and over 65. The second study compared toddlers' reactions to mothers, men and women strangers the mother's age, and men and women…
Descriptors: Adult Child Relationship, Adults, Affective Behavior, Age Differences
A Cross-Cultural Study of Mother-Infant Interaction between Japan and Korea (4): Cross-Cultural Comparisons of Human Attachment Systems among Five Asian and Western Countries.
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Fujinaga, Tamotsu; And Others – 1996
This study examined culture-specific attachment systems in Japan (including an Okinawan sample), Korea, China, United States, and the United Kingdom, using a questionnaire to measure the relative importance of various categories of interpersonal relations. Subjects were male and female university students and fathers and mothers of kindergarten…
Descriptors: Affective Behavior, Attachment Behavior, Confucianism, Family Relationship
Research and Clinical Center for Child Development Annual Report, 1984-1985.
Miyake, Kazuo, Ed. – 1986
The seven articles in this annual report concern aspects of attachment, social interaction among parents and children, temperament, affective behavior, and/or research methodology. Aspects of attachment and temperament are addressed in Kazuo Miyake's study of the "Relation of Temperamental Disposition to Classification of Attachment,"…
Descriptors: Affective Behavior, Attachment Behavior, Child Development, Emotional Experience
Research and Clinical Center for Child Development, Annual Report, 1981-1982.
Miyake, Kazuo, Ed.; Zehler, Annette M. – 1982
This document consists of four research reports and one research note focusing on several aspects of the cognitive and emotional development of young children. The first article explores two theories of the relationship between cognition and emotion, reporting on an investigation of that relationship in a simple learning task involving 60 Japanese…
Descriptors: Affective Behavior, Altruism, Attachment Behavior, Cognitive Ability