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Bueno, Rovana Kinas; Vieira, Mauro Luís; Crepaldi, Maria Aparecida; Xavier Faraco, Ana Maria – Early Child Development and Care, 2019
The activation relationship is an emotional bond between caregiver and child that encourages child openness to the world through stimulation and discipline. This study aimed to analyse the father-child activation relationship in the Brazilian context through the Risky Situation. Twelve dyads have been observed: six father-boy and six father-girl…
Descriptors: Parent Child Relationship, Fathers, Attachment Behavior, Foreign Countries
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Qaisy, Lama M.; Darwish, Muna A. Abu – World Journal of Education, 2018
The study aimed to investigate the relationship between Alexithymia (Alex) and attachment styles, gender, family size, parent's level of education among a randomly selected sample of (392)undergraduate students (136 male, 256 female), at Al-Hussein Bin Talal University. To achieve the objectives of this study, the twenty-item Toronto Alexithymia…
Descriptors: Correlation, Emotional Problems, Attachment Behavior, Undergraduate Students
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Panfile, Tia M.; Laible, Deborah J.; Eye, Jessica L. – Early Childhood Research Quarterly, 2012
The current study examined context, attachment, temperament, and gender as predictors of conflict frequency between mothers and their young children. Conflict between 40 mothers and their 36-month-old children was observed during multiple laboratory tasks with varying levels of structure, and the number of dyadic conflict episodes was totaled for…
Descriptors: Play, Mothers, Daughters, Sons
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Weinraub, Marsha; Bender, Randall H.; Friedman, Sarah L.; Susman, Elizabeth J.; Knoke, Bonnie; Bradley, Robert; Houts, Renate; Williams, Jason – Developmental Psychology, 2012
Nighttime sleep awakenings and infant and family characteristics were measured longitudinally in more than 1,200 infants when the infants were 6, 15, 24, and 36 months old. By 6 months of age, the majority of children slept through the night, awakening their mothers only about once or twice per week. However, not all children followed this…
Descriptors: Parent Child Relationship, Depression (Psychology), Personality, Infants
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Padilla-Walker, Laura M.; Nelson, Larry J. – Journal of Moral Education, 2010
The purpose of this study was to examine the impact of parenting and adolescent fearfulness on adolescents' pro-social values and pro-social and antisocial behaviour. A total of 134 adolescents (M age = 16.22, 72 girls, 62 boys) responded to questions regarding their own fearfulness, pro-social values and pro-social and antisocial behaviour, as…
Descriptors: Antisocial Behavior, Mothers, Attachment Behavior, Child Rearing
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Del Giudice, Marco; Angeleri, Romina; Manera, Valeria – Developmental Review, 2009
This paper presents a new perspective on the transition from early to middle childhood (i.e., human juvenility), investigated in an integrative evolutionary framework. Juvenility is a crucial life history stage, when social learning and interaction with peers become central developmental functions; here it is argued that the "juvenile transition"…
Descriptors: Socialization, Child Development, Individual Differences, Biographies