Publication Date
In 2025 | 0 |
Since 2024 | 0 |
Since 2021 (last 5 years) | 0 |
Since 2016 (last 10 years) | 2 |
Since 2006 (last 20 years) | 4 |
Descriptor
Attachment Behavior | 21 |
Q Methodology | 21 |
Parent Child Relationship | 14 |
Mothers | 13 |
Security (Psychology) | 10 |
Infants | 6 |
Infant Behavior | 5 |
Fathers | 4 |
Foreign Countries | 4 |
Research Methodology | 4 |
Sex Differences | 4 |
More ▼ |
Source
Author
Carbonell, Olga A. | 2 |
Posada, German | 2 |
Vaughn, Brian E. | 2 |
Waters, Everett | 2 |
Ahnert, Lieselotte | 1 |
Atkinson, Leslie | 1 |
Bakermans-Kranenburg, Marian… | 1 |
Belsky, Jay | 1 |
Bimler, David | 1 |
Bohlin, Gunilla | 1 |
Booth, Cathryn L. | 1 |
More ▼ |
Publication Type
Journal Articles | 17 |
Reports - Research | 16 |
Speeches/Meeting Papers | 4 |
Reports - Evaluative | 2 |
Information Analyses | 1 |
Reports - Descriptive | 1 |
Education Level
Audience
Researchers | 1 |
Location
Peru | 2 |
Canada (Montreal) | 1 |
Colombia | 1 |
Illinois (Chicago) | 1 |
Mexico | 1 |
New York (New York) | 1 |
United States | 1 |
Laws, Policies, & Programs
Assessments and Surveys
Attachment Q Set | 6 |
Parenting Stress Index | 2 |
What Works Clearinghouse Rating
Witting, Andrea; Ruiz, Nina; Ahnert, Lieselotte – International Journal of Developmental Science, 2016
Three boys (an extremely preterm, a moderate preterm twin and a full-term toddler; all 12 to 15 months old) were selected from a large sample to investigate mechanisms of parent-child attachments, specifically of babies born preterm. Attachments were observed at home with the Attachment-Q-Sort (AQS) as well as in the lab with the Strange Situation…
Descriptors: Attachment Behavior, Parent Child Relationship, Case Studies, Premature Infants
Posada, German; Trumbell, Jill; Noblega, Magaly; Plata, Sandra; Peña, Paola; Carbonell, Olga A.; Lu, Ting – Child Development, 2016
This study tested whether maternal sensitivity and child security are related during early childhood and whether such an association is found in different cultural and social contexts. Mother-child dyads (N = 237) from four different countries (Colombia, Mexico, Peru, and the United States) were observed in naturalistic settings when children were…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Mothers, Parent Child Relationship, Security (Psychology)
John, Aesha; Halliburton, Amy L. – Early Child Development and Care, 2010
This work aims to highlight the relevance of Stephenson's Q methodology (QM) for improving the assessment of child-father attachment relationships. We argue that reconceptualising the relationship can enhance the validity of assessment techniques and help in identifying the paternal behaviours that predict a secure child-father attachment pattern.…
Descriptors: Q Methodology, Attachment Behavior, Research Methodology, Fathers
Wachs, Theodore D.; Posada, German; Carbonell, Olga A.; Creed-Kanashiro, Hillary; Gurkas, Pinar – Infancy, 2011
A notable omission in studies of developmental links to early nutritional deficiencies is infant attachment. In those few studies investigating associations between infant nutrition and attachment, nutrition was defined solely by physical growth, and infants had moderate-severe growth retardation. In this study, we utilized multiple markers of…
Descriptors: Mothers, Low Income Groups, Nutrition, Infants
Jump, Vonda K. – 1999
The formation of attachments is an important phenomenon occurring in the realm of socioemotional development. This study examined the impact of infant massage on infants' subsequent attachment security. Fifty-seven mother-infant dyads (48 dyads from Head Start, 9 from the community at large) were randomly assigned to a treatment or control group…
Descriptors: Attachment Behavior, Comparative Analysis, Infant Behavior, Infants
van I Jzendoorn,Marinus H.; Vereijken, Carolus M.J.L.; Bakermans-Kranenburg, Marian J.; Riksen-Walraven, Marianne J. – Child Development, 2004
The reliability and validity of the Attachment Q Sort (AQS; Waters & Deane, 1985) was tested in a series of meta-analyses on 139 studies with 13,835 children. The observer AQS security score showed convergent validity with Strange Situation procedure (SSP) security (r=31) and excellent predictive validity with sensitivity measures (r=39). Its…
Descriptors: Q Methodology, Predictive Validity, Attachment Behavior, Test Validity

Bimler, David; Kirkland, John – Canadian Journal of Infancy and Early Childhood, 2002
Applied multidimensional scaling to similarity data to produce a model of Attachment Q-Set (AQS) items as points in a 3-dimensional space. Represented criterion sorts, individual Q-sorts, and empirical correlates as vectors, interpreting each according to the vector's contributions from the three global dimensions. Tested the model's validity and…
Descriptors: Attachment Behavior, Measures (Individuals), Models, Multidimensional Scaling

Vaughn, Brian E.; And Others – International Journal of Behavioral Development, 1991
A total of 101 mothers from Montreal and Chicago used the Attachment Q-Sort to describe their two- or three-year-old children. Analyses indicated some group differences on derived item scales and criterion scores. Analyses accounting for maternal variables indicated that only the criterion score for attachment security differed across the groups.…
Descriptors: Attachment Behavior, Cross Cultural Studies, Foreign Countries, Mothers

Pederson, David R.; And Others – Child Development, 1990
Observers used two Q-sorts to describe mothers' and infants' behavior at home. Mothers of more difficult children were less sensitive than other mothers. There was a strong relation between maternal sensitivity and infant attachment. Mothers of more secure infants noticed and enjoyed their babies more than mothers of less secure infants. (BC)
Descriptors: Attachment Behavior, Family Environment, Infant Behavior, Infants

Teti, Douglas M.; And Others – Developmental Psychology, 1991
Examined Attachment Q-Set security scores as indexes of attachment security. Found that Q-Set scores (1) related positively to sensitive mothering and preschoolers' sociability toward mother during laboratory observations; (2) related negatively to children's negative affectivity during free play; and (3) were associated with levels of parenting…
Descriptors: Attachment Behavior, Child Rearing, Mothers, Parent Child Relationship

DeMulder, Elizabeth K.; Denham, Susanne; Schmidt, Michelle; Mitchell, Jennifer – Developmental Psychology, 2000
This study investigated relations among preschoolers' attachment security to mothers, family stress, and peer and teacher relationships. Less family stress was related to more secure mother-child relationships. Less securely attached children expressed more anger-aggression in preschools. Boys' family stress was related to anger- aggression and…
Descriptors: Attachment Behavior, Family School Relationship, Peer Relationship, Preschool Children

Booth, Cathryn L.; Kelly, Jean F.; Spieker, Susan J.; Zuckerman, Tracy G. – Early Education and Development, 2003
Examined attachment relationships of toddlers at 26 months to their child caregivers. Developed a scale describing safe haven and secure base functions of attachment relationships in child care. Found that this Safe and Secure Scale related to proximal indicators of child-care quality, and was a stronger measure than the child-caregiver Q-security…
Descriptors: Attachment Behavior, Caregiver Child Relationship, Child Care, Measures (Individuals)
Broberg, Anders G.; Wiberg, Charlotta; Gyland, Patrik; Ramsby, Louise; Bohlin, Gunilla; Rydell, Ann-Margret – 1999
Noting that gender may be an important issue when studying relations between attachment and social functioning, four studies explored whether the relationship between children's internal working models of attachment and their general functioning was gender specific. A total of 246 children, ages 5 to 10 years, were given the Separation Anxiety…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Attachment Behavior, Children, Cognitive Development

Kondo-Ikemura, Kiyomi; Waters, Everett – Monographs of the Society for Research in Child Development, 1995
Used adaptation of Attachment Q-Set (AQS) with 24 infant-mother monkey dyads to clarify the secure-base concept. Found that infants of high-ranking monkeys scored higher than those of low-ranking ones, suggesting the origins of the secure-base phenomenon, as well as the importance of exploring infant secure-base behaviors in families of different…
Descriptors: Animal Behavior, Attachment Behavior, Behavioral Science Research, Measures (Individuals)

Busch-Rossnagel, Nancy A.; And Others – Hispanic Journal of Behavioral Sciences, 1994
A set of Q-sort items to assess individual differences in infant-mother attachment was adapted for a Hispanic population of low-SES background. Completion of the Q-sort by observers and inner-city Hispanic mothers and testing of 43 infants with the Ainsworth Strange Situation established the Q-set's validity and indicated moderate reliability for…
Descriptors: Attachment Behavior, Dominicans, Hispanic Americans, Infants
Previous Page | Next Page »
Pages: 1 | 2