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Direct linkOr 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
Magda Matetovici; Anouk Spruit; Cristina Colonnesi; Mauricio Garnier-Villarreal; Marc Noom – Infant Mental Health Journal: Infancy and Early Childhood, 2025
Acknowledging that the parent-child attachment is a dyadic relationship, we investigated differences between pairs of parents and preschool children based on gender configurations in the association between attachment and problem behavior. We looked at mother-daughter, mother-son, father-daughter, and father-son dyads, but also compared mothers…
Descriptors: Parent Child Relationship, Preschool Children, Mothers, Daughters
Courtlyn Fields; Kyle Rawn; Peggy S. Keller – Journal of American College Health, 2025
Objective: The COVID-19 pandemic and ensuing lockdown disrupted daily life and was related to increased mental health problems across the developmental spectrum, including for emerging adults. Understanding factors that contribute to adjustment during such national crises is critical, and attachment theory may provide a valuable framework for…
Descriptors: College Students, Mothers, Fathers, Attachment Behavior
Hostile Interparental Conflict and Parental Discipline: Romantic Attachment as a Spillover Mechanism
Cory R. Platts; Melissa L. Sturge-Apple; Patrick T. Davies – Developmental Psychology, 2024
This study examined parental romantic attachment security as a mediator of prospective associations between hostile interparental conflict and parental discipline (i.e., power-assertive, permissive, and inductive discipline) for mothers and fathers of young children. Furthermore, this study utilized a novel, automatic assessment of romantic…
Descriptors: Parents, Interpersonal Relationship, Conflict, Discipline
Kisla, Sule; Çetin, Zeynep – Early Child Development and Care, 2023
This study has been conducted to examine the relationship levels of fathers who have 6- to 12-month-old babies with their fathers, and their attachment status with their babies. The sample group consisted of 313 fathers. Fatherhood Scale and Father-Infant Attachment Scale have been applied to the fathers who participated in our study,…
Descriptors: Infants, Fathers, Attachment Behavior, Parent Child Relationship
Deneault, Audrey-Ann; Hammond, Stuart I.; Madigan, Sheri – Developmental Psychology, 2023
Although numerous individual studies have attempted to link child-parent attachment and prosociality, a systematic picture of that relationship requires a meta-analytic approach that considers different dimensions of prosociality and potential moderators. The current meta-analysis examined 41 studies drawn primarily from North America and Europe…
Descriptors: Literature Reviews, Parent Child Relationship, Attachment Behavior, Prosocial Behavior
Clarke, Daniel Wade – British Journal of Guidance & Counselling, 2023
In this autoethnography I explore the impact of my father's alcohol dependency on my relationship with him and implications for my own recovery from alcohol-related harm. Sketching, layering and poetic interludes help to move around the hyphenated space of son-father relations showing the wounds associated with his alcohol ab/use. The writing…
Descriptors: Adults, Fathers, Sons, Alcoholism
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
Vaydich, Jenny L.; Carpenter, Thomas P.; Schwark, Jenai K.; Molina, Larissa – Journal of American College Health, 2022
Objectives: The current study explored the relationship between parental attachment and disordered eating among college students. This study also explored the potential mediating role of factors associated with emotion regulation. Participants: One hundred sixty-seven undergraduates (M = 18.93 years, SD = 1.02) participated in the current study.…
Descriptors: Eating Disorders, Parent Child Relationship, Attachment Behavior, Emotional Response
Kissgen, Ruediger; Franke, Sebastian; Jorjadze, Nino; Roth, Bernhard; Kribs, Angela – International Journal of Developmental Science, 2021
This study examines the infant-father attachment in infants born preterm (<?1500?g at birth and/or?<?37 weeks gestation) in comparison to full-term infants. The infant-father attachment was assessed using the Strange Situation Procedure at a (corrected) age of 15 months. We found at least half of preterm and full-term infants (50.0% and…
Descriptors: Infants, Fathers, Parent Child Relationship, Attachment Behavior
Koehn, Amanda J.; Kerns, Kathryn A. – Journal of Early Adolescence, 2022
The goal of this study was to expand current attachment models by validating a three-component model of the supervision partnership conceptualization of attachment (accessibility and availability of attachment figures, willingness to communicate, and mutual recognition of other's rights in decision-making). The model was tested by examining…
Descriptors: Attachment Behavior, Models, Preadolescents, Early Adolescents
Kara, Mustafa; Cetinkaya, Senay – Early Child Development and Care, 2022
This is an empirical study aiming to examine the attachment patterns of the fathers who embraced their babies and who did not; and to investigate their participation to the caretaking of their new-born babies. The research was conducted with 50 fathers by face-to-face meeting in delivery rooms and maternity wards in Health Sciences University…
Descriptors: Fathers, Neonates, Parent Child Relationship, Attachment Behavior
Nitza Weinstein; Adi Zloof Golombick – Journal of Early Intervention, 2025
This study evaluated the effects of short-term manualized autism spectrum disorder (ASD)-modified "interaction therapy" (IT) for 42 parents, comprising both fathers and mothers of 21 preschoolers with ASD, while comparing father and mother outcomes. Intervention features included parents' focus on self-reflection and…
Descriptors: Preschool Children, Parents, Parent Attitudes, Parent Child Relationship
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
Coe, Catherine; Dallos, Rudi; Stedmon, Jacqui; Rydin-Orwin, Tracy – Early Child Development and Care, 2021
This study interviewed fathers of young infants to explore their experiences and understandings of their parental roles; comparing these with observations of them interacting with their baby, using an attachment lens. Analysis of interviews revealed key themes about fathers' experiences of being parented and in their turn, parenting, which linked…
Descriptors: Fathers, Infants, Parent Role, Experience
