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Vanwalleghem, S.; Miljkovitch, R. – Journal of Intellectual & Developmental Disability, 2023
Background: To document whether the sociocognitive peculiarities of people with Down Syndrome impact the construction of attachment at different ages, a systematic review of the literature was carried out. Method: This review followed the Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and MetaAnalyses, was conducted on three databases: psycINFO,…
Descriptors: Attachment Behavior, Down Syndrome, Age Differences, Behavior Problems
Zsolnai, Anikó; Szabó, Lilla – Pastoral Care in Education, 2021
Primary attachment plays a fundamental role in children's social and emotional development and psychological well-being. Secure attachment correlates strongly with better social competence, self-regulation, well-being and school achievement. There is no full agreement among researchers investigating attachment as to what extent primary attachment…
Descriptors: Attachment Behavior, Teacher Student Relationship, Educational Environment, Child Development
Schmidt, Wiebke Johanna; Keller, Heidi; Rosabal Coto, Mariano – Developmental Psychology, 2021
Attachment studies mostly follow the Western middle-class model in theory and methods. To demonstrate that the assessment of children's caregiving context is an often neglected, but crucial prerequisite for attachment studies, we (a) conducted a literature analysis of attachment research in non-Western contexts and (b) empirically investigated the…
Descriptors: Child Development, Attachment Behavior, Cultural Differences, Infants
Barron, Carla; Weathington, Beverly; Howell, Shameika; Bell, Sherry; Stacks, Ann M. – ZERO TO THREE, 2020
Hearts and Minds on Babies (HMB) is an innovative, attachment-based training for Early Head Start (EHS) staff and parents, developed through a collaboration between university-based researchers and clinicians and community-based EHS educators. This article describes HMB, our collaboration, and lessons learned when infusing infant and early…
Descriptors: Faculty Development, Early Childhood Education, Infants, Attachment Behavior
Stern, Jessica A.; Fraley, R. Chris; Jones, Jason D.; Gross, Jacquelyn T.; Shaver, Phillip R.; Cassidy, Jude – Developmental Psychology, 2018
The first months after becoming a new parent are a unique and important period in human development. Despite substantial research on the many social and biological changes that occur during the first months of parenthood, little is known about changes in mothers' attachment. The present study examines developmental stability and change in…
Descriptors: Attachment Behavior, Mothers, Adult Development, Economically Disadvantaged
Alcock, Sophie Jane – Early Child Development and Care, 2017
Ethnographic methods are used to investigate infant--toddlers relationships in an early childhood setting. The metaphorical and emotionally based concepts of holding [Winnicott, D. W. (1960). "The theory of the parent-infant relationship." "International Journal of Psychoanalysis," 41, 585-595.] and container: contained [Bion,…
Descriptors: Play, Interpersonal Relationship, Ethnography, Infants
Stover, Carla Smith – ZERO TO THREE, 2015
Millions of children witness intimate partner violence (IPV) in their homes each year, and large percentages of those children are infants and toddlers. Children often continue to live with or have frequent visits with their fathers following IPV. Social services agencies rarely provide services to target the father-child relationship beyond…
Descriptors: Fathers, Parent Child Relationship, Family Violence, Attachment Behavior
Raby, K. Lee; Cicchetti, Dante; Carlson, Elizabeth A.; Egeland, Byron; Collins, W. Andrew – Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, 2013
Background: Longitudinal research has demonstrated that individual differences in attachment security show only modest continuity from infancy to adulthood. Recent findings based on retrospective reports suggest that individuals' genetic variation may moderate the developmental associations between early attachment-relevant relationship…
Descriptors: Longitudinal Studies, Attachment Behavior, Security (Psychology), Genetics
Surr, John – International Journal of Children's Spirituality, 2011
This essay reviews recent research about infant attachment, then discusses the implications of this research as they relate to the following specific manifestations of children's spirituality: faith, wonder, relational consciousness, flow (as in a sense of wholeness or unity), and compassion, in the light of other research on children's…
Descriptors: Altruism, Infants, Attachment Behavior, Religious Factors
Slominski, Lisa; Sameroff, Arnold; Rosenblum, Katherine; Kasser, Tim – Social Development, 2011
Longitudinal pathways between maternal mental health in infancy and offspring romantic relationship outcomes in adulthood were examined using a 30-year prospective longitudinal study of 196 mothers and their children. Structural equation modeling revealed that maternal mental health at 30 months was related to offspring relationship status and…
Descriptors: Security (Psychology), Structural Equation Models, Mental Health, Infants
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
Englund, Michelle M.; Kuo, Sally I-Chun; Puig, Jennifer; Collins, W. Andrew – International Journal of Behavioral Development, 2011
Social capital has traditionally been defined in terms of the amount of resources that one derives as a result of a diversity of interpersonal relationships. However, the quality of these relationships across development has not been examined as a contributor to social capital and few studies have examined the significance of various age-salient…
Descriptors: Infants, Attachment Behavior, Social Capital, Competence
Gonzalez-Mena, Janet – Exchange: The Early Childhood Leaders' Magazine Since 1978, 2010
Long before babies understand words, they understand touch. The first experience of compassion infants receive is gentle, caring touch, which gives a strong message, especially when accompanied by eye contact and a soft tone of voice. The kind of relationship a compassionate caregiver strives to develop with an infant creates attachment, an…
Descriptors: Play, Nonverbal Communication, Altruism, Caregivers
Gillespie, Linda; Parlakian, Rebecca – Young Children, 2009
This article reminds infant care teachers of the ways thoughtful interactions between adults and very young children teach babies and toddlers who they are as individuals. "When teachers take the time to respond respectfully and thoughtfully, babies and young children learn and thrive."
Descriptors: Infant Care, Young Children, Preschool Teachers, Interaction
Rutter, Michael; Kreppner, Jana; Sonuga-Barke, Edmund – Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, 2009
Background: Despite the evidence on anomalous attachment patterns, there has been a tendency to interpret most of these as reflecting differences in security/insecurity. Methods: Empirical research findings are reviewed in relation to attachment/insecurity as evident in both infancy and later childhood, disorganised attachment, inhibited…
Descriptors: Security (Psychology), Attachment Behavior, Mental Health, Mental Disorders