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Adler, Jerry – Newsweek, 1997
Explores the attachment relationship of fathers to their infant children. Highlights the ways fathers parent differently from mothers, and the positive effects on child outcomes of fathers' participation in caregiving. (HTH)
Descriptors: Attachment Behavior, Child Development, Child Rearing, Emotional Development
Download full textPopper, Sally D.; And Others – 1993
As part of a longitudinal study of postpartum adjustment and infant development, this study examined whether securely attached 12-month-old infants show greater object mastery motivation and social-object mastery motivation than do insecurely attached infants. Object mastery relates to infants' goal-directed behavior that is oriented toward…
Descriptors: Attachment Behavior, Child Development, Comparative Analysis, Depression (Psychology)
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
Peer reviewedFinnegan, Regina A.; And Others – Child Development, 1996
Developed measures of preoccupied and avoidant coping to determine whether the measures concurrently relate to adjustment problems. Subjects were 229 children from third through seventh grades. Results indicated that preoccupied and avoidant coping with the mother can contribute to maladjustment in other arenas. Children's adjustment with peers…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Attachment Behavior, Caregiver Child Relationship, Child Development
Lamb, Michael E. – 1977
This paper is a summary of results of two overlapping longitudinal studies tracing the development of mother-infant and father-infant attachments between 7 and 24 months of age. Interaction between 10 male and 10 female infants and their parents was observed in the subjects' homes. Interaction with parents was compared to interaction with an…
Descriptors: Attachment Behavior, Behavior Patterns, Child Development, Early Experience
Heist, Michele E. – 1980
This paper reviews research reported in the last 10 years on the effects of day care on children and their families. The review is organized around the following areas: attachment and emotional development; psycho-social development; intellectual and cognitive development; health and nutritional effects; the effect of caregiver stability; the…
Descriptors: Attachment Behavior, Child Development, Cognitive Development, Day Care
Rotenberg, Ken J., Ed.; Hymel, Shelley, Ed. – 1999
Despite the apparent universality of loneliness and its link to psychosocial maladjustment, research on loneliness has emerged rather recently in the history of psychology. This book brings together varied theories and lines of research on loneliness among children and adolescents to provide a source for future research. The chapters are: (1)…
Descriptors: Adolescent Development, Adolescents, Attachment Behavior, Child Development
Stevens, Joseph H., Jr., Ed.; Mathews, Marilyn, Ed. – 1978
This collection of papers on parent-child relationships consists of three research reports, six research reviews and two position papers on issues critical to research and practice. Papers included were selected on the basis of their relevance to the work of practitioners who counsel parents. The volume's four thematic sections are entitled: (1)…
Descriptors: Attachment Behavior, Birth, Child Development, Child Rearing
