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Dujardin, Adinda; Santens, Tara; Braet, Caroline; De Raedt, Rudi; Vos, Pieter; Maes, Bea; Bosmans, Guy – Child Development, 2016
This study tested whether children's more anxious and avoidant attachment is linked to decreased support-seeking behavior toward their mother during stress in middle childhood, and whether children's decreased support-seeking behavior enhances the impact of experiencing life events on the increase of depressive symptoms 18 months later.…
Descriptors: Children, Preadolescents, Help Seeking, Anxiety

Kochanska, Grazyna – Child Development, 1995
Used behavioral observation and maternal reports to examine the relationship of fearfulness/anxiety, attachment security, and maternal discipline with internalization in 103 toddlers. For relatively fearful/anxious children, gentle maternal discipline that deemphasized power predicted internalization. For relatively fearless children, security of…
Descriptors: Anxiety, Attachment Behavior, Discipline, Fear

Tracy, Russel L.; Ainsworth, Mary D. Salter – Child Development, 1981
Reports further analysis of longitudinal records of mother-infant interaction at home during the infant's first year of life. Analysis was designed to clarify the role of maternal affectionate behavior in defining maternal patterns and in discriminating anxious/avoidant mothers from secure mothers and from anxious/resistant mothers. (Author/DB)
Descriptors: Affection, Anxiety, Attachment Behavior, Context Effect

Kobak, R. Rogers; And Others – Child Development, 1993
Correlated teens' strategies for regulating their attachment to their mothers as measured by the Adult Attachment Interview, and emotion regulation during teen-mother problem solving. Teens with secure strategies engaged in problem-solving discussions characterized by less dysfunctional anger and less avoidance of problem solving than other teens.…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Anxiety, Attachment Behavior, Behavior Development

Valenzuela, Marta – Child Development, 1990
Assessed mother-infant attachment in a low-income population in Chile. Underweight children and children with adequate weight were classified as secure or anxious by means of the Ainsworth Strange Situation. Underweight children showed more anxious attachment, and anxious children showed the most serious weight deficits. (BC)
Descriptors: Anxiety, Attachment Behavior, Body Height, Body Weight

Lieberman, Alicia F.; And Others – Child Development, 1991
Infant-mother dyads classified as anxiously attached intervention and control or securely attached control were compared. Intervention toddlers were lower than anxious controls in avoidance, resistance, and anger, and higher in partnership with mother. Intervention mothers were higher in empathy and interactiveness. No differences between…
Descriptors: Affective Behavior, Anger, Anxiety, At Risk Persons

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