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Early Attachment Organization with Both Parents and Future Behavior Problems: From Infancy to Middle Childhood
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Kochanska, Grazyna; Kim, Sanghag – Child Development, 2013
Links between children's attachment security with mothers and fathers, assessed in Strange Situation with each parent at 15 months ("N" = 101), and their future behavior problems were examined. Mothers and fathers rated children's behavior problems, and children reported their own behavior problems at age 8 ("N" = 86). Teachers…
Descriptors: Parent Child Relationship, Attachment Behavior, Young Children, Children
The Effects of Experimental Context and Experimental Background on Infants' Behavior toward Their Mothers and a Stranger
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Brookhart, Joyce; Hock, Ellen – Child Development, 1976
Social behaviors of 10- and 12-month-old infants were studied as a function of experimental context (home and laboratory) and experimental history (home rearing and day care). Results suggested that the experimental context influenced infant social behaviors. No differences attributable to rearing condition as a main effect were found. (Author/SB)
Descriptors: Attachment Behavior, Family Environment, Infants, Laboratory Experiments
A Twin Study of Attachment in Preschool Children.
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O'Connor, Thomas G.; Croft, Carla M. – Child Development, 2001
Investigated the degree to which individual differences in child-parent attachment were mediated by genetic, shared environmental, and nonshared environmental influences. Found an overall concordance rate of 67 percent at the secure/insecure level. Twin similarity on the continuous measure of attachment security was consistent with a modest role…
Descriptors: Attachment Behavior, Family Environment, Individual Differences, Nature Nurture Controversy
Maternal Sensitivity and the Security of Infant-Mother Attachment: A Q-Sort Study.
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Pederson, David R.; And Others – Child Development, 1990
Observers used two Q-sorts to describe mothers' and infants' behavior at home. Mothers of more difficult children were less sensitive than other mothers. There was a strong relation between maternal sensitivity and infant attachment. Mothers of more secure infants noticed and enjoyed their babies more than mothers of less secure infants. (BC)
Descriptors: Attachment Behavior, Family Environment, Infant Behavior, Infants
Individual Differences in Infant-Mother Attachment at Twelve and Eighteen Months: Stability and Change in Families under Stress.
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Vaughn, Brian; And Others – Child Development, 1979
Descriptors: Attachment Behavior, Change, Economically Disadvantaged, Family Environment
Infant-Mother Attachment: Factors Related to Its Development and Changes over Time.
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Egeland, Byron; Farber, Ellen A. – Child Development, 1984
Based on data collected prenatally and during infants' first 2 years of life, this study attempted to discriminate among three major attachment classifications and to account for qualitative changes in attachment relationships. Data included maternal and infant characteristics, mother-infant interactions, life-stress events, and family living…
Descriptors: Attachment Behavior, Child Rearing, Competence, Family Environment
Stability and Change in Attachment Security Across Adolescence
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Allen, Joseph P.; McElhaney, Kathleen Boykin; Kuperminc, Gabriel P.; Jodl, Kathleen M. – Child Development, 2004
This study examined both continuity and familial, intrapsychic, and environmental predictors of change in adolescent attachment security across a 2-year period from middle to late adolescence. Assessments included the Adult Attachment Interview, observed mother-adolescent interactions, test-based data, and adolescent self-reports obtained from an…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Poverty, Depression (Psychology), Attachment Behavior
Attachment Behavior at Home and in the Laboratory: Q-Sort Observations and Strange Situation Classifications of One-Year-Olds.
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Vaughn, Brian E.; Waters, Everett – Child Development, 1990
Infants' home-based Q-sort scores of security, dependency, and sociability were compared to laboratory Strange Situation classifications of secure, anxious-resistant, and anxious-avoidant. Secure classification was associated with Q-sort security and sociability, but not dependency. (BC)
Descriptors: Anxiety, Attachment Behavior, Dependency (Personality), Exploratory Behavior