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Direct linkStacey L. Alexander; Margarita Frederico; Maureen Long; Don Vicendese – Journal of Occupational Therapy, Schools & Early Intervention, 2024
Secure attachment has broad and long-lasting benefits for the development and wellbeing of a child. Conversely, disorganized attachment is associated with social, emotional, and behavioral problems in children, and later psychopathology. Children with a developmental delay or disability (DD) may be at greater risk of insecure or disorganized…
Descriptors: Children, Disabilities, Developmental Delays, Attachment Behavior
Cavicchioli, Marco; Stefanazzi, Chiara; Tobia, Valentina; Ogliari, Anna – European Journal of Developmental Psychology, 2023
Attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) is a neurodevelopmental disorder characterized by pervasive alterations in self-regulation. Attachment patterns could be involved in maintaining the clinical features of ADHD during development. This meta-analytic review summarizes the findings of 26 cross-sectional and longitudinal studies that…
Descriptors: Children, Adolescents, Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder, Attachment Behavior
Deneault, Audrey-Ann; Bakermans-Kranenburg, Marian J.; Groh, Ashley M.; Fearon, Pasco R. M.; Madigan, Sheri – New Directions for Child and Adolescent Development, 2021
This meta-analytic study examined the associations between child-father attachment in early childhood and children's externalizing and internalizing behavior problems. Based on 15 samples (N = 1,304 dyads), the association between child-father attachment insecurity and externalizing behaviors was significant and moderate in magnitude (r = 0.18,…
Descriptors: Attachment Behavior, Parent Child Relationship, Fathers, Behavior Problems
Dagan, Or; Schuengel, Carlo; Verhage, Marije L.; van IJzendoorn, Marinus H.; Sagi-Schwartz, Abraham; Madigan, Sheri; Duschinsky, Robbie; Roisman, Glenn I.; Bernard, Kristin; Bakermans-Kranenburg, Marian; Bureau, Jean-François; Volling, Brenda L.; Wong, Maria S.; Colonnesi, Cristina; Brown, Geoffrey L.; Eiden, Rina D.; Fearon, R. M. Pasco; Oosterman, Mirjam; Aviezer, Ora; Cummings, E Mark – New Directions for Child and Adolescent Development, 2021
An unsettled question in attachment theory and research is the extent to which children's attachment patterns with mothers and fathers "jointly" predict developmental outcomes. In this study, we used individual participant data (IPD) meta-analysis to assess whether early attachment networks with mothers and fathers are associated with…
Descriptors: Attachment Behavior, Parent Child Relationship, Mothers, Fathers
Warr, Mark – Journal of Youth and Adolescence, 2007
Delinquent youth display weaker attachment to their parents than do other youth, but the reasons for this remain unclear. One explanation is that delinquent youth poison their relations with parents by lying to them about their friends, behavior, whereabouts, and more. Analysis of data from the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health…
Descriptors: Deception, Delinquency, Adolescents, Attachment Behavior
Download full textTermini, Kristin A.; Golden, Jeannie A. – International Journal of Behavioral Consultation and Therapy, 2007
Research on moral behavior in children is sorely lacking in the behavioral literature. Yet, behavioral research documenting effective treatment of children with behavioral and emotional problems has often failed to generalize or to focus on moral behavior. Developmental psychologists have researched moral behavior and have provided models of moral…
Descriptors: Emotional Problems, Psychologists, Moral Values, Developmental Psychology
Knadel, Judy Starks – 1994
This paper investigates the characteristics of attachment and attachment disorders and attempts to specify techniques used by psychologists, teachers, therapists, and parents to enhance the learning environment of unattached children. The paper includes a review of literature resources discovered through the computerized systems of the Education…
Descriptors: Attachment Behavior, Child Behavior, Discipline, Intervention
Peer reviewedOppenheim, David; Waters, Harriet Salatas – Monographs of the Society for Research in Child Development, 1995
Reviews attachment research based on narrative assessments, noting that these assessments rely on subjective variables as well as working models as determinants of children's narrative productions. Reviews John Bowlby's ideas regarding the importance of parent-child verbal communications in attachment security. Reviews recent cognitive research…
Descriptors: Attachment Behavior, Behavioral Science Research, Child Behavior, Infants
Peer reviewedAshiabi, Godwin S. – Early Childhood Education Journal, 2000
Examines the emotional development of preschoolers, including the issues of emotional expression, emotional understanding, regulation of emotions, developmental significance, and the role of the caregiver-child relationship. Finds that caregivers influence the emotional development of children as they model, coach, and respond to children.…
Descriptors: Attachment Behavior, Behavior Development, Caregiver Child Relationship, Caregiver Role
Peer reviewedCompton, Mary V.; Niemeyer, Judith A. – Education and Treatment of Children, 1994
This review examines research done on affection behaviors of children with visual and hearing impairments. A social interaction perspective is utilized, and areas for further empirical investigation are identified. (DB)
Descriptors: Affective Behavior, Attachment Behavior, Child Behavior, Emotional Development
Peer reviewedZeanah, Charles H. – Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 1996
Reviews and critiques the approaches of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders and the International Classification of Diseases to attachment disorders and finds that they have not made use of findings from developmental research on attachment in developing their criteria. Presents an alternative system of classifying attachment…
Descriptors: Affective Behavior, Attachment Behavior, Child Behavior, Dependency (Personality)
Peer reviewedWatson, Marilyn – Young Children, 2003
Outlines the basic principles of attachment theory and its implications for young children's social and emotional development. Applies attachment theory to children whose behaviors are especially challenging, using examples from a primary classroom in an urban setting. Asserts that sensitive teachers can build collaborative relationships. (SD)
Descriptors: Attachment Behavior, Behavior, Behavior Problems, Behavior Theories
Peer reviewedLyons-Ruth, Karlen – Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 1996
Reviews recent attachment-related studies of early aggression. Longitudinal attachment studies indicate that risk factors identified in cross-sectional studies of aggressive school-age children, such as family adversity, parental hostility, parental depression, and child cognitive deficits, are already evident in infancy and predictive of later…
Descriptors: Affective Behavior, Aggression, Attachment Behavior, Behavior
Peer reviewedBornstein, Marc H.; Tamis-LeMonda, Catherine S. – Developmental Review, 1995
Reviews research on influences on children's symbolic play. Finds little support for the effects of child-adult symbolic play interactions on child solitary play. Discusses three theoretical perspectives that should support these effects: attachment, ethological, and scaffolding theories. Reconsiders the essence of specific variables affecting…
Descriptors: Attachment Behavior, Child Behavior, Cognitive Development, Cognitive Processes
