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Wang, Feihong; Cox, Martha J.; Mills-Koonce, Roger; Snyder, Patricia – Grantee Submission, 2015
This research examined alternative mechanisms in the etiology of attachment disorganization. The authors hypothesized that negative intrusive parenting would significantly predict children's attachment disorganization at age 12 months within a diverse community sample. Of more substantial interest, the authors tested moderational mechanisms in the…
Descriptors: Parent Child Relationship, Beliefs, Child Behavior, Attachment Behavior
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Stacey, Barrie – Social Behavior and Personality, 1980
Provides evidence that the significance given to the infant-mother attachment and personality and social development is not warranted. Infants normally develop attachments to more than one person. Their interpersonal world is complex and includes fathers and other caretakers. (Author/JAC)
Descriptors: Attachment Behavior, Child Development, Infant Behavior, Infants
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Heard, D.H. – Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry and Allied Disciplines, 1981
Investigates two questions of interest to persons who treat children with psychological difficulties: (1) What is attachment theory? and (2) Does it have relevance when working with disturbed children and their families? (Author/DB)
Descriptors: Attachment Behavior, Child Development, Children, Emotional Disturbances
Clarke-Stewart, K. Alison – 1986
Updating a 1977 review, this review of the research concerning parents' effects on their children's development asks what progress has been made in understanding such effects during the last decade. After presenting findings of the earlier review, discussion focuses on five areas of research: temperament, attachment, cognitive development,…
Descriptors: Attachment Behavior, Child Development, Children, Cognitive Development
Lieberman, Alicia F. – 1993
Noting that parenting a toddler can be both exhilarating and frustrating, this book draws on lifelong research into children's emotional development to provide parents with a better understanding of toddlers' emotional range and how it affects toddler behavior. The 10 chapters and the conclusion cover the following areas: (1) the emotional…
Descriptors: Affective Behavior, Attachment Behavior, Child Development, Childhood Needs
Honig, Alice Sterling – 1981
The author contends that families are uniquely constituted to bestow the gifts of caring, courage, and problem solving ability upon children. Clinical and epistemological insights as well as research evidence concerning child development and family relationships are presented as sources of information which will aid families to bestow these gifts.…
Descriptors: Altruism, Attachment Behavior, Child Development, Child Rearing
Lamb, Michael E. – 1977
This paper discusses the nature of the infant social world. Infants develop attachments to both parents. Father-child and mother-child relationships are qualitatively different. They involve different types of experiences and have different implications for the child's personality development. The fathers' sex-differentiating behavior focuses the…
Descriptors: Attachment Behavior, Child Development, Developmental Psychology, Infant Behavior
Greenspan, Stanley I.; Lourie, Reginald S. – 1979
This paper applies a developmental structuralist approach to the classification of adaptive and pathologic personality organizations and behavior in infancy and early childhood, and it discusses implications of this approach for preventive intervention. In general, as development proceeds, the structural capacity of the developing infant and child…
Descriptors: Adjustment (to Environment), Attachment Behavior, Child Development, Developmental Stages
Lewis, Michael – 1971
This paper discusses the processes that are at work which produce some of the differences between male and female human beings. The sex of the child is an important attribute of the organism's identity. Before birth, parents express preferences for the sex of the unborn child and start providing names as a function of the sex of the child. Studies…
Descriptors: Attachment Behavior, Behavior Patterns, Child Development, Infants