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Direct linkOr Dagan; Carlo Schuengel; Marije L. Verhage; Sheri Madigan; Glenn I. Roisman; Kristin Bernard; Robbie Duschinsky; Marian Bakermans-Kranenburg; Jean-François Bureau; Abraham Sagi-Schwartz; Rina D. Eiden; Maria S. Wong; Geoffrey L. Brown; Isabel Soares; Mirjam Oosterman; R. M. Pasco Fearon; Howard Steele; Carla Martins; Ora Aviezer – Child Development, 2024
An individual participant data meta-analysis was conducted to test pre-registered hypotheses about how the configuration of attachment relationships to mothers and fathers predicts children's language competence. Data from seven studies (published between 1985 and 2014) including 719 children (M[subscript age]: 19.84 months; 51% female; 87% White)…
Descriptors: Parent Child Relationship, Attachment Behavior, Fathers, Mothers
Bernard, Kristin; Dozier, Mary; Bick, Johanna; Lewis-Morrarty, Erin; Lindhiem, Oliver; Carlson, Elizabeth – Child Development, 2012
Young children who have experienced early adversity are at risk for developing disorganized attachments. The efficacy of Attachment and Biobehavioral Catch-up (ABC), an intervention targeting nurturing care among parents identified as being at risk for neglecting their young children, was evaluated through a randomized clinical trial. Attachment…
Descriptors: Intervention, Toddlers, Attachment Behavior, Child Abuse
Fearon, R. Pasco; Bakermans-Kranenburg, Marian J.; van IJzendoorn, Marinus H.; Lapsley, Anne-Marie; Roisman, Glenn I. – Child Development, 2010
This study addresses the extent to which insecure and disorganized attachments increase risk for externalizing problems using meta-analysis. From 69 samples (N = 5,947), the association between insecurity and externalizing problems was significant, d = 0.31 (95% CI: 0.23, 0.40). Larger effects were found for boys (d = 0.35), clinical samples (d =…
Descriptors: Attachment Behavior, Infants, Meta Analysis, Mental Health
Stupica, Brandi; Sherman, Laura J.; Cassidy, Jude – Child Development, 2011
This longitudinal investigation of 84 infants examined whether the effect of 12-month attachment on 18- and 24-month exploration and sociability with unfamiliar adults varied as a function of newborn irritability. As expected, results revealed an interaction between attachment (secure vs. insecure) and irritability (highly irritable vs. moderately…
Descriptors: Toddlers, Infants, Parent Child Relationship, Social Development
Moore, Ginger A.; Hill-Soderlund, Ashley L.; Propper, Cathi B.; Calkins, Susan D.; Mills-Koonce, W. Roger.; Cox, Martha J. – Child Development, 2009
Parents' physiological regulation may support infants' regulation. Mothers (N=152) and 6-month-old male and female infants were observed in normal and disrupted social interaction. Affect was coded at 1-s intervals and vagal tone measured as respiratory sinus arrhythmia (RSA). Maternal sensitivity was assessed in free play. Mothers and infants…
Descriptors: Intervals, Mothers, Infants, Interpersonal Relationship
Peer reviewedKlein, Robert P.; Durfee, Joan T. – Child Development, 1976
Descriptors: Attachment Behavior, Infants, Mothers, Research
Peer reviewedGray, Madelyn D.; And Others – Child Development, 1979
Results from a study of 40 one-year-old children and their mothers showed that maternal interference with children's independent object play had no short-term effect on infant social initiatives to mother, responsiveness to mother's social bids, or exploratory play. (JMB)
Descriptors: Attachment Behavior, Infants, Mothers, Parent Child Relationship
Peer reviewedHay, Dale F. – Child Development, 1980
Identifies and reviews the evidence for some potential functions of proximity seeking in infancy. Data pertaining to a variety of species are reviewed. (Author/SS)
Descriptors: Attachment Behavior, Experiential Learning, Infants, Proximity
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
Peer reviewedMatas, Leah; And Others – Child Development, 1978
The link between the quality of attachment in infancy and the quality of play and problem-solving behavior at age two years was examined in 48 infants. (Author/JMB)
Descriptors: Attachment Behavior, Infants, Interpersonal Competence, Play
Peer reviewedLamb, Michael E. – Child Development, 1977
Twenty infants were observed interacting with their mothers and fathers at home when they were 7, 8, 12, and 13 months of age. No parental preference was found in the infants' attachment behaviors. Differences were found in the infants' affiliative behaviors, in their responses to parental play, and in situations in which they were held by…
Descriptors: Attachment Behavior, Fathers, Infants, Mothers
Peer reviewedBrooks, Jeanne; Lewis, Michael – Child Development, 1974
Attachment behavior, toy preference, style of play, and activity level were recorded in 17 sets of opposite sex twins observed in a playrrom setting with their mothers. (ST)
Descriptors: Attachment Behavior, Infants, Parent Child Relationship, Sex Differences
Peer reviewedRinkoff, Robert F.; Corter, Carl M. – Child Development, 1980
Responses of 80 10-month-old infants to brief maternal separation were observed in home and laboratory settings and in two conditions of maternal accessibility: mothers' exit door closed or open. Results show the importance of situational determinants in the investigation of infant attachment behavior. (Author/RH)
Descriptors: Attachment Behavior, Infant Behavior, Infants, Influences
Peer reviewedTracy, Russel L.; And Others – Child Development, 1976
This study attempted to identify characteristics that distinguish approach as an attachment behavior from approach serving other behavioral systems. Locomotor approaches of 16 male and 10 female white middle-class infants to an attachment figure (mother) and to a nonattachment figure (visitor-observer) were examined under naturalistic conditions…
Descriptors: Attachment Behavior, Infant Behavior, Infants, Mothers
Peer reviewedPederson, David R.; Moran, Greg – Child Development, 1996
Compared expressions of attachment relationships in preterm and full-term infants and their mothers at home at 8 and 12 months of age and in the Strange Situation at 18 months. Found 84% concordance in the distinctions between secure and nonsecure classifications of the mother-infant relationship made at home at 12 months and in the Strange…
Descriptors: Attachment Behavior, Infant Behavior, Infants, Mothers
