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Configurations of Mother-Child and Father-Child Attachment Relationships as Predictors of Child Language Competence: An Individual Participant Data Meta-Analysis
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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
Do Adolescents and Parents Reconstruct Memories about Their Conflict as a Function of Adolescent Attachment?
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Dykas, Matthew J.; Woodhouse, Susan S.; Ehrlich, Katherine B.; Cassidy, Jude – Child Development, 2010
This study examined whether 17-year-old adolescents (n = 189) and their parents reconstructed their memory for an adolescent-parent laboratory conflict over a 6-week period as a function of adolescent attachment organization. It also compared participants' perceptions of conflict over time to observational ratings of the conflict to further…
Descriptors: Mothers, Conflict, Attachment Behavior, Adolescents
Early Attachment Organization Moderates the Parent-Child Mutually Coercive Pathway to Children's Antisocial Conduct
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Kochanska, Grazyna; Barry, Robin A.; Stellern, Sarah A.; O'Bleness, Jessica J. – Child Development, 2009
This multimethod study of 101 mothers, fathers, and children elucidates poorly understood role of children's attachment security as "moderating" a common maladaptive trajectory: from parental power assertion, to child resentful opposition, to child antisocial conduct. Children's security was assessed at 15 months, parents' power assertion observed…
Descriptors: Parent Child Relationship, Attachment Behavior, Antisocial Behavior, Child Behavior
Father-Infant and Mother-Infant Interaction in the First Year of Life
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Lamb, Michael E. – Child Development, 1977
Twenty infants were observed interacting with their mothers and fathers at home when they were 7, 8, 12, and 13 months of age. No parental preference was found in the infants' attachment behaviors. Differences were found in the infants' affiliative behaviors, in their responses to parental play, and in situations in which they were held by…
Descriptors: Attachment Behavior, Fathers, Infants, Mothers
Temperament and Attachment Security in the Strange Situation: An Empirical Rapproachement.
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Belsky, Jay; Rovine, Michael – Child Development, 1987
Findings suggest that infant temperament affects the manner in which security or insecurity is expressed, but does not determine whether an infant develops a secure or insecure attachment to parent. (PCB)
Descriptors: Attachment Behavior, Fathers, Infant Behavior, Infants
When Infants Look to Their Parents: I. Infants' Social Referencing of Mothers Compared to Fathers.
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Hirshberg, Laurence M.; Svejda, Marilyn – Child Development, 1990
Measures of positive and negative affect and affect ability; of look, approach, and proximity behavior; and of overall response pattern were obtained from 66 infants of 12 months. These measures and other results suggested that both parents are significant sources of emotional guidance for infants in conditions of uncertainty. (RH)
Descriptors: Affective Behavior, Attachment Behavior, Fathers, Infant Behavior
Effects of Paternal Involvement on Infant Preferences for Mothers and Fathers.
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Lamb, Michael E.; And Others – Child Development, 1983
Analyses of the interaction of 45 Swedish infants with their mothers and fathers revealed that degree of paternal involvement had no effect on preferences displayed on measures of attachment and affiliative behaviors. At both eight and 16 months, infants showed clear preferences for their mothers over their fathers. (Author/RH)
Descriptors: Attachment Behavior, Fathers, Foreign Countries, Infants
In Search of the Absent Father--Meta-Analyses of Infant-Father Attachment: A Rejoinder to Our Discussants.
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van IJzendoorn, Marinus H.; De Wolff, Marianne S. – Child Development, 1997
Presents meta-analysis evidence of the association between paternal sensitivity and infant-father attachment from eight studies with 546 families (combined effect size r = 0.13). A meta-analysis of 950 families from 14 studies found an overall correlation of 0.17 between infant-mother and infant-father attachment. Presents a data-based model of…
Descriptors: Attachment Behavior, Fathers, Infants, Meta Analysis
Sex Differences in Parent-Infant Interaction during Free Play, Departure, and Separation
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Weinraub, Marsha; Frankel, Jay – Child Development, 1977
Twenty 18-month-olds were observed with their mothers and 20 with their fathers in laboratory free-play, departure, and separation situations. Findings were analyzed in terms of the differential roles of mothers and fathers, the development of sex differences, and determinants of separation distress. (JMB)
Descriptors: Attachment Behavior, Fathers, Infants, Mothers
Maternal Employment in a Family Context: Effects on Infant-Mother and Infant-Father Attachments.
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Chase-Lansdale, P. Lindsay; Owen, Margaret Tresch – Child Development, 1987
The relation between resumption of full-time employment by mothers of infants, and subsequent infant-mother and infant-father attachments, was examined. No relation emerged between maternal work status and the quality of infants' attachments to their mothers. (PCB)
Descriptors: Attachment Behavior, Employed Parents, Fathers, Infant Behavior
The Relation between Maternal Employment Status and the Stability of Attachments to Mother and to Father.
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Owen, Margaret Tresch; And Others – Child Development, 1984
Classifications of the quality of infant-mother and infant-father attachments were made for 59 children at 12 and 20 months of age using the Ainsworth strange situation paradigm. Stability of attachments from 12 to 20 months was examined in four groups defined by maternal employment status. (Author/RH)
Descriptors: Attachment Behavior, Employed Women, Employment Level, Fathers
Parent-Infant Bonding: Another Look.
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Goldberg, Susan – Child Development, 1983
Asserts that the sensitive-period hypothesis has not been tested on three counts: (1) no systematic studies of initial mother/infant contacts exist, (2) the majority of studies confound timing and amount of contact, and (3) failure to consider underlying mechanisms results in the omission of designs and dependent measures that could address…
Descriptors: Attachment Behavior, Fathers, Hypothesis Testing, Infants
Associations among Attachment Classifications of Mothers, Fathers, and Their Infants.
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Steele, Howard; And Others – Child Development, 1996
Tested 90 infants in the Strange Situation Procedure (SSP) with both parents. Found that mothers' Adult Attachment Interview (AAI) scores predicted infant-mother SSPs and fathers' AAIs predicted infant-father SSPs. Counter to expectation, infant-father SSPs were associated with infant-mother SSPs, which might be explained by the influence of…
Descriptors: Attachment Behavior, Fathers, Infant Behavior, Infants
Representation of Self and Socioemotional Competence in Kindergartners: Differential and Combined Effects of Attachment to Mother and to Father.
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Verschueren, Karine; Marcoen, Alfons – Child Development, 1999
Examined the differential predictive power and effects of representations of child/mother and child/father attachment for children's representation of self and socioemotional competence. Found that the child's positiveness of self was better predicted by quality of child/mother attachment representation than child/father attachment representation.…
Descriptors: Attachment Behavior, Emotional Development, Fathers, Interpersonal Competence
African American Late Adolescents' Relationships with Parents: Developmental Transitions and Longitudinal Patterns
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Smetana, Judith G.; Metzger, Aaron; Campione-Barr, Nicole – Child Development, 2004
Five-year longitudinal patterns and the influence of developmental transitions on 76 middle-class African American late adolescents' (M18.43 years) relationships with parents were examined. Late adolescents were closer to mothers than to fathers. Controlling for age, late adolescent females who had left home reported less negative relationships…
Descriptors: Late Adolescents, Mothers, Fathers, Parent Child Relationship
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