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Funda Çitil Canbay; Elif Tugçe Çitil; Nuriye Degirmen – Early Child Development and Care, 2024
The study aimed to compare the effects of breastfeeding education and skin-to-skin contact on breastfeeding efficiency and maternal attachment. This study was a three-group randomized controlled study. This study was conducted with 92 women in a delivery room in Türkiye between October 2021 and May 2022. The study consists of continuous early SSC…
Descriptors: Infants, Nutrition, Parent Child Relationship, Mothers
Çagan, Emine Serap; Genç, Rabia – Early Child Development and Care, 2023
This study aims to determine the effects of kangaroo care at birth on exclusively breastfeeding, infant growth and development according to attachment theory. The study is a randomized controlled trial. The sample of the study consisted of 132 pregnant women between 36 and 38 gestational weeks. Kangaroo care group received 'kangaroo care and…
Descriptors: Neonates, Nutrition, Infant Care, Pregnancy
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
Mokaberian, Mansoureh; Noripour, Shamsollah; Sheikh, Mahmoud; Mills, Paul J. – Early Child Development and Care, 2022
Exploring effective interventions to compensate for developmental delay in premature neonates and reduce their mothers' anxiety is of great significance. This research aimed at examining the effects of body massage on Iranian premature neonates' physical and motor development, and on their mother's anxiety and attachment. Forty premature neonates…
Descriptors: Neonates, Premature Infants, Physical Health, Mothers
Almeida, Ana; Merminod, Gaelle, Schechter, Daniel S. – Zero to Three (J), 2009
Women with severe psychiatric illness face numerous risks and challenges during pregnancy and as parents. Mental health professionals can help these mothers and their infants by supporting the attachment relationship and by providing the external supports that are necessary for successful parenting. The authors describe a hospital-based…
Descriptors: Mothers, Hospitals, Mental Disorders, Mental Health Workers
Figueiredo, Barbara; Costa, Raquel; Pacheco, Alexandra; Pais, Alvaro – Early Child Development and Care, 2007
While infant attachment has been largely studied, parental attachment is still relatively unknown, especially when referred to fathers. However, it is mainly recognised that parents' emotional involvement with the newborn contributes to the quality of the interaction and the care they provide. The aim of this study was to study mother-to-infant…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Measures (Individuals), Neonates, Birth
Miyake, Kazuo – 1985
In a longitudinal study of 29 middle-class Japanese infants, an attempt was made to identify early temperamental dispositions that predict later attachment classification. Specifically, Ainsworth Strange Situation observations at 12 months of age were preceded by, among others, observation of distress evident in newborns when a nipple was removed;…
Descriptors: Attachment Behavior, Foreign Countries, Infant Behavior, Infants
Vorster, de Wet – 1986
To assess the effect of early mother-infant proximity on later stress and behavior, two studies were made which involved a sample of mother-baby pairs that was larger than samples utilized in previous studies. In Study 1, involving 300 consecutive mother-baby couples at the Maternity Hospital in Plymouth, England clinical medical officers used a…
Descriptors: Attachment Behavior, Check Lists, Early Experience, Foreign Countries

Scholz, Kim; Samuels, Curtis A. – International Journal of Behavioral Development, 1992
Examined the effect on father-infant relationships of a parent training program on infant massage and bathing. Infants in the treatment group greeted fathers with more eye contact, smiles, vocalizing, reaching, and orienting responses and showed less avoidance behavior than did control group infants. Fathers in the treatment group showed greater…
Descriptors: Attachment Behavior, Fathers, Foreign Countries, Infant Behavior

Callan, Victor J.; Murray, Judith – Family Relations, 1989
Reviews research from several disciplines to examine impact of stillbirth and infant death on parents, and the effect of various socio-demographic, pregnancy-related, and postbirth factors upon parents' grieving and adjustment. Reports that one-third of mothers reported serious physical and emotional deterioration. Notes that care and emotional…
Descriptors: Attachment Behavior, Crisis Intervention, Death, Emotional Adjustment
Miyake, Kazuo, Ed. – 1986
The seven articles in this annual report concern aspects of attachment, social interaction among parents and children, temperament, affective behavior, and/or research methodology. Aspects of attachment and temperament are addressed in Kazuo Miyake's study of the "Relation of Temperamental Disposition to Classification of Attachment,"…
Descriptors: Affective Behavior, Attachment Behavior, Child Development, Emotional Experience
Nixon, Dianne; Gould, Katy – 1996
As our knowledge of young children grows, so does our awareness of the importance of the first few years of life. This book is written for students of child care at the college level, for those who work with children in the first three years of their lives, and for anyone who wants to understand more about what researchers and theorists have to…
Descriptors: Attachment Behavior, Behaviorism, Child Abuse, Child Development