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Borderline Personality Disorder in Mothers, Maternal Sensitivity, and Infant Social Withdrawal: A Study on Clinical Dyads Referred to Perinatal Mental Health Units
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Jaqueline Wendland; Charlotte Castelnau; Alexandra Déprez; Didier Rabain; Claire de Carmantrand; Antoine Guédeney – Early Child Development and Care, 2023
Behavioural, cognitive and emotional dysregulation related to parent borderline personality disorder (BPD) may have a major impact on parent-infant interactions. We investigated the ways in which infant social withdrawal and mother sensitivity may be associated to a BPD diagnosis in mothers. Two groups of clinic-referred mother-infant dyads were…
Descriptors: Mothers, Infants, Withdrawal (Psychology), Personality Problems
Difficult Temperament and Children's Peer Relations: The Moderating Role of Quality of Parent-Child Relationships
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Acar, Ibrahim H.; Pérez-González, Sam; Kutaka, Traci Shizu; Yildiz, Süleyman – Early Child Development and Care, 2019
The current study is an examination of contributions of difficult temperament and qualities of parent-child relationship to Turkish children's peer relations, with a specific focus on the moderating role of parent-child relationships (closeness and conflict) on difficult temperament when predicting children's peer relations. Participants were 94…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Personality, Personality Problems, Child Behavior
'My Life Felt Like a Cage without an Exit' -- Narratives of Childhood under the Abuse of a Narcissistic Mother
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Määttä, Marju; Uusiautti, Satu – Early Child Development and Care, 2020
This research focused on narcissistic homes as described by adult daughters of narcissistic mothers. The definition of narcissism reveals the problematic behaviours of narcissists (e.g. blaming, manipulation, nullification, and self-sufficiency to hide one's own low self-esteem). How do these affect upbringing? How do children of narcissistic…
Descriptors: Personality Problems, Adults, Daughters, Mothers
Differential Effect of Duration of Early Childcare under the Age of Three on Socio-Emotional Outcomes
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Linberg, Anja; Burghardt, Lars; Freund, Jan-David; Weinert, Sabine – Early Child Development and Care, 2020
International study results point to potential negative associations of time spent in early childhood education and care (ECEC) centres in the first 3 years of a child's life and socio-emotional outcomes. However, the transferability of international results to the German ECEC system and the impact of characteristics of the home learning…
Descriptors: Program Length, Time Factors (Learning), Emotional Development, Social Development
Constructing Identities: Perceptions and Experiences of Male Primary Headteachers
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Jones, Deborah – Early Child Development and Care, 2008
This article presents research undertaken with male headteachers in early years schools within the UK and explores several influential discourses in relation to male headteachers' identities. The article discusses the ways in which different identities are constructed for headteachers by parents, governors and wider society, and also how a variety…
Descriptors: Males, Principals, Elementary Education, Foreign Countries
The Impact of Divorce on Children.
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Thiessen, Irmgard – Early Child Development and Care, 1993
The degree of emotional trauma that children may face during or after their parents' divorce is related to the personality profiles of both parents; quality of parent-child bonding; quality of parent-child attachment; parenting styles; and resilience of the child. Courts and child care workers should look more closely at parent personality…
Descriptors: Childhood Attitudes, Divorce, Foreign Countries, Parent Attitudes