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Waters, Theodore E. A.; Yang, Rui; Finet, Chloë; Verhees, Martine W. F. T.; Bosmans, Guy – Child Development, 2022
We examined the prototype v. revisionist models of attachment stability with a five-wave, 6-year, longitudinal study of attachment security from middle childhood to adolescence in a White Western European sample (N = 157; Wave 1 M[subscript age] = 10.91, SD = 0.87; 52% female). Attachment was assessed using both questionnaire (Experiences in Close…
Descriptors: Models, Attachment Behavior, Children, Adolescents
Sara F. Waters; Meenakshi Richardson; Sara R. Mills; Alvina Marris; Fawn Harris; Myra Parker – Child Development, 2024
Healthy Indigenous child development is grounded in Indigenous ways of knowing and being. Attachment theory has been influential in understanding the significance of parenting for infant development in Western science but has focused on child-caregiver bonds predominantly within the parent-child dyad. To bring forth Indigenous perspectives…
Descriptors: Caregiver Child Relationship, Tribal Sovereignty, Attachment Behavior, Indigenous Populations
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; Kim, Sanghag – Child Development, 2013
Links between children's attachment security with mothers and fathers, assessed in Strange Situation with each parent at 15 months ("N" = 101), and their future behavior problems were examined. Mothers and fathers rated children's behavior problems, and children reported their own behavior problems at age 8 ("N" = 86). Teachers…
Descriptors: Parent Child Relationship, Attachment Behavior, Young Children, Children
Oppenheim, David; Koren-Karie, Nina; Sagi-Schwartz, Abraham – Child Development, 2007
It was examined whether secure infant-mother attachment contributes to emotionally congruent and organized mother-child dialogues about emotions in later years. The attachment of 99 children was assessed using the Strange Situation at the age of 1 year and their emotion dialogues with their mothers were assessed at the ages of 4.5 and 7.5 years.…
Descriptors: Mothers, Attachment Behavior, Emotional Response, Parent Child Relationship

van IJzendoorn, Marinus H.; Moran, Greg; Belsky, Jay; Pederson, David; Bakermans-Kranenburg, Marian J.; Fisher, Kirstie – Child Development, 2000
Pooled sibling attachment data to compare attachment relationships to mothers for 138 sibling pairs. Found that sibling relationships were significantly concordant when classified as secure/nonsecure but not when further subcategorized. Maternal insensitivity to both siblings was associated with concordance of sibling nonsecurity. Same gender…
Descriptors: Attachment Behavior, Children, Mothers, Nature Nurture Controversy
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
Ahnert, Lieselotte; Pinquart, Martin; Lamb, Michael E. – Child Development, 2006
Meta-analysis aggregated results of 40 investigations involving 2,867 children who averaged 29.6 ("SD" = 8.6) months of age when their attachments to care providers were assessed using either the Strange Situation (SS) or the Attachment Q-Set (AQS). As opposed to parents, secure attachments to nonparental care providers were less likely (using SS)…
Descriptors: Attachment Behavior, Child Welfare, Child Caregivers, Meta Analysis

Anderson, Christine Warren – Child Development, 1980
Conclusions from research in the areas of maternal deprivation, institutionalization, and parent-child relations are used to conceptualize and hypothesize about dimensions of daily separation experiences relevant to attachment. (SS)
Descriptors: Attachment Behavior, Children, Day Care, Emotional Development

Waters, Everett; Cummings, E. Mark – Child Development, 2000
Examines empirical successes of theory of attachment as a secure base relationship, including nature of infant-caregiver and adult-adult relationships. Maintains that researchers need to continually examine the logic and coherence of attachment theory and redress errors of emphasis and analysis. Suggests that the theory be updated in light of…
Descriptors: Adults, Attachment Behavior, Children, Infants
Fivush, Robyn; Haden, Catherine A.; Reese, Elaine – Child Development, 2006
Initial research on maternal reminiscing style established clear and consistent individual differences that vary along a dimension of maternal elaboration and that are related to children's developing autobiographical skills. More recent research has linked maternal elaborative reminiscing to strategic memory development, language and literacy…
Descriptors: Mothers, Children, Social Development, Emotional Development

Moss, Ellen; Rousseau, Denise; Parent, Sophie; St-Laurent, Diane; Saintonge, Julie – Child Development, 1998
Examined contributions of attachment, maternal-reported stress, and mother-child interaction to the prediction of teacher-reported behavior problems in 121 French-Canadian children. Security of attachment significantly predicted likelihood of behavior problems: insecure children labeled controlling or other were most at risk for…
Descriptors: Attachment Behavior, Behavior Problems, Children, Foreign Countries

Volling, Brenda L.; Belsky, Jay – Child Development, 1992
Assessments of parent and sibling attachments were made when the firstborn child of a two-child family was one, three, and six years old. Sibling conflict and aggression were related to maternal conflict with both children at six years. Affectionate fathering was associated with prosocial sibling interaction. (BC)
Descriptors: Aggression, Attachment Behavior, Child Rearing, Children

Cassidy, Jude; Ziv, Yair; Mehta, Tara G.; Feeney, Brooke C. – Child Development, 2003
Two experiments examined 12- and 17-year-olds' active selection of quality of feedback they wished from peers. Findings indicated that participants with positive self-perceptions sought feedback that was more positive than participants with negative self-perceptions and sought more positive feedback than expected by chance. Participants with…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Attachment Behavior, Children, Comparative Analysis

Carlson, Elizabeth A. – Child Development, 1998
Explored the antecedents and consequences of attachment disorganization among 157 participants in a prospective longitudinal study from 24 months to 19 years. Found that infant history of attachment disorganization was correlated with consequent variables related to: mother-child relationship quality at 24 and 42 months; child behavior problems in…
Descriptors: Attachment Behavior, Behavior Problems, Children, Emotional Adjustment
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