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Early Attachment Networks to Multiple Caregivers: History, Assessment Models, and Future Research Recommendations
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Dagan, Or; Sagi-Schwartz, Abraham – New Directions for Child and Adolescent Development, 2021
Early attachment has been commonly hypothesized to predict children's future developmental outcomes, and robust evidence relying on assessments of single caregiver-child attachment patterns has corroborated this hypothesis. Nevertheless, most often children are raised by multiple caregivers, and they tend to form attachment bonds with more than…
Descriptors: Attachment Behavior, Child Development, Caregiver Child Relationship, Child Caregivers
Admissibility of Attachment Theory, Research and Assessments in Child Custody Decision-Making? Yes and No!
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Forslund, Tommie; Hammarlund, Mårten; Granqvist, Pehr – New Directions for Child and Adolescent Development, 2021
Attachment theory, research, and assessments have become increasingly applied to settle child custody cases. We discuss such applications in relation to admissibility criteria for scientific evidence and testimony proposed by Faigman et al. (2014). We argue that attachment theory and research can provide valid "framework evidence";…
Descriptors: Attachment Behavior, Child Custody, Decision Making, Evidence
Child-Father Attachment in Early Childhood and Behavior Problems: A Meta-Analysis
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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
The Limits of the Attachment Network
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Bakermans-Kranenburg, Marian J. – New Directions for Child and Adolescent Development, 2021
From the beginning, theories of attachment and caregiving have given rise to questions about minimum and maximum numbers of attachment figures. The child's tendency to direct attachment behavior to a specific figure rather than to whoever is nearby has led to the idea of monotropy, suggesting that a child would thrive best with one special…
Descriptors: Attachment Behavior, Behavior Theories, Child Caregivers, Child Care
Attachment Networks and the Future of Attachment Theory
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Thompson, Ross A. – New Directions for Child and Adolescent Development, 2021
Attachment theorists have long recognized that multiple attachments characterize the typical experience of most children. But an appreciation of attachment networks is new, and this commentary draws on some of the most theoretically provocative themes of the contributions to this special issue. These include: how the quality of attachment…
Descriptors: Attachment Behavior, Futures (of Society), Security (Psychology), Child Development
Configurations of Mother-Child and Father-Child Attachment as Predictors of Internalizing and Externalizing Behavioral Problems: An Individual Participant Data (IPD) Meta-Analysis
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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
A Society That Values Its Children Should Cherish Their Parents: A Move to Considering the Attachment Network
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Steele, Miriam; Steele, Howard – New Directions for Child and Adolescent Development, 2021
This comment on the Special Issue contributions regarding the attachment network addresses the clinical implications of the findings from three perspectives: (1) the need to look beyond maternal influences on child developmental outcomes; (2) to be open to every seemingly peripheral influence on the child as this may have a central impact on the…
Descriptors: Attachment Behavior, Networks, Child Development, Parent Child Relationship
Grandmothers Are Part of the Parenting Network, Too! A Longitudinal Study on Coparenting, Maternal Sensitivity, Child Attachment and Behavior Problems in a Chinese Sample
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Liang, Xi; Lin, Yige; Van IJzendoorn, Marinus H.; Wang, Zhengyan – New Directions for Child and Adolescent Development, 2021
Grandmothers are important in Chinese families. This study explored the early emerging mother-grandmother-infant network and its association with child's socioemotional development in multigenerational families in a non-WEIRD country. The analytic sample included 60 children (T1: M[subscript age] = 6.5 months) and their caregivers residing in…
Descriptors: Grandparents, Parent Role, Infants, Parent Child Relationship
Parent-Child Attachment and Emotion Regulation
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Brumariu, Laura E. – New Directions for Child and Adolescent Development, 2015
Given the centrality of both parent-child attachment and emotion regulation in children's development and adjustment, it is important to evaluate the relations between these constructs. This article discusses conceptual and empirical links between attachment and emotion regulation in middle childhood, highlights progress and challenges in the…
Descriptors: Attachment Behavior, Emotional Response, Parent Child Relationship, Child Development
Attachment in Middle Childhood: Progress and Prospects
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Bosmans, Guy; Kerns, Kathryn A. – New Directions for Child and Adolescent Development, 2015
Contrary to the substantial amount of research on infant, preschool, adolescent, and adult attachment, middle childhood has long been neglected by the international attachment research community. In the past two decades, however, there has been a steep increase in research focusing on middle childhood attachment. This article provides an overview…
Descriptors: Attachment Behavior, Children, Child Development, Research
Middle Childhood Teacher-Child Relationships: Insights from an Attachment Perspective and Remaining Challenges
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Verschueren, Karine – New Directions for Child and Adolescent Development, 2015
An increasing body of research points to the significance of teacher-child relationships in shaping children's development. Extending the research literature on early childhood, this review examines the value of an attachment perspective to the study of teacher-child relationships in middle childhood. First, we discuss the conceptualization and…
Descriptors: Children, Teachers, Teacher Student Relationship, Attachment Behavior
Attachment and Socioemotional Problems in Middle Childhood
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Moss, Ellen; Lecompte, Vanessa – New Directions for Child and Adolescent Development, 2015
In this article, we will evaluate the evidence concerning links between attachment and behavior problems in the middle childhood period. We will first provide a general introduction to the question of attachment and maladaptation in the middle childhood period, and then examine the recent empirical evidence with respect to both externalizing and…
Descriptors: Children, Attachment Behavior, Behavior Problems, Interpersonal Competence
Attachment in Middle Childhood: An Evolutionary-Developmental Perspective
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Del Giudice, Marco – New Directions for Child and Adolescent Development, 2015
Middle childhood is a key transitional stage in the development of attachment processes and representations. Here I discuss the middle childhood transition from an evolutionary-developmental perspective and show how this approach offers fresh insight into the function and organization of attachment in this life stage. I begin by presenting an…
Descriptors: Attachment Behavior, Child Development, Children, Developmental Stages
Commentary--Attachment in Middle Childhood: Looking Back, Forward, and Within
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Steele, Howard – New Directions for Child and Adolescent Development, 2015
This commentary discusses the articles that comprise this special issue on attachment in middle childhood. Central to this discussion is the distinction between verbal, strategic, and conscious responses to questionnaires as compared to verbal and nonverbal, automatic and largely unconscious responses to interviews. Both methods have been…
Descriptors: Children, Child Development, Attachment Behavior, Questionnaires
Commentary--Culture and Attachment during Middle Childhood
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Chen, Bin-Bin – New Directions for Child and Adolescent Development, 2015
Culture has an important impact on attachment. This commentary highlights three aspects about culture and attachment in middle childhood: (1) the need to have a more sophisticated consideration of the implication of cultural values, (2) the need to incorporate the role of societal or political ecological contexts, and (3) the need to solve the…
Descriptors: Attachment Behavior, Children, Child Development, Cultural Influences
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