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Adolescents Suppress Emotional Expression More with Peers Compared to Parents and Less When They Feel Close to Others
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Wylie, Megan S.; De France, Kalee; Hollenstein, Tom – International Journal of Behavioral Development, 2023
Adolescence is characterized by frequent emotional challenges, intense emotions, and higher levels of expressive suppression use than found in older populations. While evidence suggests that contingent expressive suppression use based on context is the most functional, it remains unclear whether adolescents use expressive suppression…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Adolescent Attitudes, Emotional Response, Self Control
Early Mother-Child Attachment: Longitudinal Prediction to the Quality of Peer Relationships in Middle Childhood
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Seibert, Ashley; Kerns, Kathryn – International Journal of Behavioral Development, 2015
Although it is hypothesized that children with different insecure attachment patterns may experience a variety of peer difficulties, the question has been investigated almost exclusively for externalizing and internalizing behaviors with peers. The purpose of this study was to investigate how each of the insecure attachment patterns is related to…
Descriptors: Parent Child Relationship, Attachment Behavior, Security (Psychology), Behavior Problems
The Influence of Attachment Security on Preschool Children's Empathic Concern
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Murphy, Tia Panfile; Laible, Deborah J. – International Journal of Behavioral Development, 2013
The current study examined the direction of the association between children's attachment security and empathic responding. At 42 and 48 months of age, 69 children's empathic concern was observed, and mothers reported the children's attachment. Results indicated that attachment at 42 months predicted empathic concern at 48 months even after…
Descriptors: Preschool Children, Empathy, Prediction, Attachment Behavior
How Do Children Make Sense of their Experiences? Children's Memories of Wellbeing and Distress from an Attachment Perspective
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Messina, Serena; Zavattini, Giulio Cesare – International Journal of Behavioral Development, 2014
Attachment's role in children's memories of wellbeing and distress was evaluated through the Manchester Child Attachment Story Task in 30 Italian children, aged 6 years (15 secure and 15 insecure). Their mothers' coherence of discourse was determined using the Adult Attachment Interview. A mediation model examining whether children's attachment…
Descriptors: Attachment Behavior, Memory, Well Being, Stress Variables
Adaptive Insecure Attachment and Resource Control Strategies during Middle Childhood
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Chen, Bin-Bin; Chang, Lei – International Journal of Behavioral Development, 2012
By integrating the life history theory of attachment with resource control theory, the current study examines the hypothesis that insecure attachment styles reorganized in middle childhood are alternative adaptive strategies used to prepare for upcoming competition with the peer group. A sample of 654 children in the second through seventh grades…
Descriptors: Children, Attachment Behavior, Peer Groups, Foreign Countries
Links between Children's Attachment Behavior at Early School-Age, Their Attachment-Related Representations, and Behavior Problems in Middle Childhood
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Moss, Ellen; Bureau, Jean-Francois; Beliveau, Marie-Julie; Zdebik, Magdalena; Lepine, Suzanne – International Journal of Behavioral Development, 2009
The objective of the present study was to examine associations between children's attachment behavior at early school-age, dimensions of narrative performance, and behavior problems as assessed in middle childhood. Children's attachment patterns with mother were assessed at age 6 (N = 127) using the Main and Cassidy (1988) separation--reunion…
Descriptors: Behavior Problems, Discipline, Social Behavior, Conflict