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Disorganized Behavior in Adolescent-Parent Interaction: Relations to Attachment State of Mind, Partner Abuse, and Psychopathology
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Obsuth, Ingrid; Hennighausen, Katherine; Brumariu, Laura E.; Lyons-Ruth, Karlen – Child Development, 2014
Disoriented, punitive, and caregiving/role-confused attachment behaviors are associated with psychopathology in childhood, but have not been assessed in adolescence. A total of 120 low-income late adolescents (aged 18-23 years) and parents were assessed in a conflict-resolution paradigm. Their interactions were coded with the Goal-Corrected…
Descriptors: Behavior Problems, Attachment Behavior, Low Income Groups, Late Adolescents
Reporter Discrepancies among Parents, Adolescents, and Peers: Adolescent Attachment and Informant Depressive Symptoms as Explanatory Factors
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Ehrlich, Katherine B.; Cassidy, Jude; Dykas, Matthew J. – Child Development, 2011
The issue of informant discrepancies about child and adolescent functioning is an important concern for clinicians, developmental psychologists, and others who must consider ways of handling discrepant reports of information, but reasons for discrepancies in reports have been poorly understood. Adolescent attachment and informant depressive…
Descriptors: Social Behavior, Psychologists, Adolescents, Developmental Psychology
Parenting during the Second Year: Effects of Children's Age, Sex, and Attachment Classification.
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Fagot, Beverly I; Kavanagh, Kate – Child Development, 1993
Assessed parent-child interaction in 2-parent families with 12- and 18-month-old infants through questionnaires, interviews, family observations, and the Ainsworth Strange Situation procedure. Found no effect of family stress and marital adjustment on infants' attachment classification. Parents of 12 month olds reported greater marital adjustment…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Attachment Behavior, Child Rearing, Fathers
Separation Anxiety in Parents of Adolescents: Theoretical Significance and Scale Development.
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Hock, Ellen; Eberly, Mary; Bartle-Haring, Suzanne; Ellwanger, Pamela; Widaman, Keith F. – Child Development, 2001
Developed and validated Parents of Adolescents Separation Anxiety Scale with parents of sixth, eighth, tenth, and twelfth graders, and college freshmen and seniors. Factor analyses supported two subscales: Anxiety about Adolescent Distancing (AAD) and Comfort with Secure Base Role (CSBR); both showed distinctive change patterns with child age.…
Descriptors: Adolescent Development, Adolescents, Age Differences, Attachment Behavior
Attachment to Mother/Attachment to Father: A Meta-Analysis.
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Fox, Nathan A.; And Others – Child Development, 1991
Analyzed data from 11 studies of concordance of mother/father attachment to an infant based on the Strange Situation. Found that security of attachment, type of insecurity, and subcategory classification of security to one parent depended on the other parent. Discussed parenting styles and infant temperament. (BC)
Descriptors: Attachment Behavior, Child Rearing, Crying, Infant Behavior
A Three Year Follow-up of Attachment and Indiscriminate Friendliness in Children Adopted from Romanian Orphanages.
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Chisholm, Kim – Child Development, 1998
Assessed attachment/indiscriminate friendliness in children who spent at least eight months in Romanian orphanages (RO); a nonadopted, never-institutionalized Canadian group; and an early-adopted Romanian group. Found that RO children showed more insecure attachment and indiscriminate friendliness than others. Insecure RO children had more…
Descriptors: Adopted Children, Adoption, Attachment Behavior, Behavior Problems