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Antonia Misch; Andrea Kramer; Markus Paulus – Developmental Science, 2024
Attachment theory proposes that young children's experiences with their caregivers has a tremendous influence on how children navigate their social relationships. By the end of early childhood, intergroup contexts play an important role in their social life and children build strong ties to their ingroups. Although both domains relate to the same…
Descriptors: Preschool Children, Group Behavior, Child Behavior, Attachment Behavior
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Guterman, Oz; Neuman, Ari – School Psychology, 2020
The increased scope and percentage of children being homeschooled raise questions about the impact of this framework on the child's world. One of the issues that has not been adequately studied with regard to homeschooling is whether the emotional and personal problems of parents have greater impact on children who are homeschooled. The present…
Descriptors: Parent Child Relationship, Attachment Behavior, Home Schooling, Behavior Problems
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Coulson, Mark; Oskis, Andrea; Gould, Rebecca L – Contemporary Issues in Early Childhood, 2017
In this article, the authors discuss the light and dark side of attachments and attachment style in physical and digital worlds. They argue that many games offer opportunities for the generation of new and meaningful attachments to both physical and digital others. They discuss two "fundamental attachment errors" and show how these can…
Descriptors: Attachment Behavior, Video Games, Behavior Problems, Child Behavior
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Salisbury, Susan – Emotional & Behavioural Difficulties, 2018
The study investigated whether 10 minutes of attachment enhancing play delivered daily over 2 weeks could improve adult-child relationships and whether this bettered the way they functioned socially and emotionally. The attachment enhancing play was based on Theraplay® principles and utilized the 4 dimensions of 'Structure, Engagement, Nurture,…
Descriptors: Attachment Behavior, Rating Scales, Measures (Individuals), Teacher Student Relationship
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Yang, Pei-Jung; Lamb, Michael E. – Applied Developmental Science, 2014
The present study examined child and school factors that might foster classroom behavioral engagement during the first year at school in a sample of 67 typically developing British 4-year-olds. The children were followed for 9 months from the summer before enrollment through the first 7 months of school. Our findings showed that effortful control…
Descriptors: Performance Factors, Influences, Classroom Environment, Child Behavior
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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
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Brendtro, Larry K.; Mitchell, Martin L. – Reclaiming Children and Youth, 2010
Decades of studies show that children's behavior is shaped by relationships in the "social ecology" of family, peers, school, and community. But in recent decades the prevailing scientific dogma was that genes determine destiny. Now it is clear that experience changes genes. For better or worse, environmental experiences including nutrition,…
Descriptors: Child Behavior, Genetics, Environmental Influences, Nutrition
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Shmueli-Goetz, Yael; Target, Mary; Fonagy, Peter; Datta, Adrian – Developmental Psychology, 2008
While well-established attachment measures have been developed for infancy, early childhood, and adulthood, a "measurement gap" has been identified in middle childhood, where behavioral or representational measures are not yet sufficiently robust. This article documents the development of a new measure--the Child Attachment Interview…
Descriptors: Caregivers, Test Validity, Interrater Reliability, Attachment Behavior
Al-Yagon, Michal – Journal of Special Education, 2007
The study examined the role of maternal personal resources (mother's attachment style, coping strategies, and affect) in moderating the effects of learning disabilities (LD) on children's socioemotional and behavioral adjustment (self-rated sense of coherence, loneliness, and hope; and mother-rated child behavior checklist measures), as well as on…
Descriptors: Psychological Patterns, Child Behavior, Check Lists, Mothers
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Compton, Mary V.; Niemeyer, Judith A. – Education and Treatment of Children, 1994
This review examines research done on affection behaviors of children with visual and hearing impairments. A social interaction perspective is utilized, and areas for further empirical investigation are identified. (DB)
Descriptors: Affective Behavior, Attachment Behavior, Child Behavior, Emotional Development
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Lyons-Ruth, Karlen – Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 1996
Reviews recent attachment-related studies of early aggression. Longitudinal attachment studies indicate that risk factors identified in cross-sectional studies of aggressive school-age children, such as family adversity, parental hostility, parental depression, and child cognitive deficits, are already evident in infancy and predictive of later…
Descriptors: Affective Behavior, Aggression, Attachment Behavior, Behavior
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van Ijzendoorn, Marinus H; Bakermans-Kranenburg, Marian J. – Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 1996
This meta-analysis on 33 studies, including more than 2,000 Adult Attachment Interview (AAI) classifications, presents distributions of AAI classifications in samples of nonclinical fathers and mothers, in adolescents, in samples from different cultures, and in clinical groups. Fathers, adolescents, and participants from different countries show…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Affective Behavior, Attachment Behavior, Behavior Standards
Harrison, Linda; Ungerer, Judy – 1996
This study addressed the argument that early child care constitutes a risk to children's social adaptation, and that for high-risk samples this effect depends on the security of the infant-mother attachment relationship. A longitudinal investigation of 135 first-born children in a low-risk sample was conducted to discern the contribution of child…
Descriptors: Adjustment (to Environment), Attachment Behavior, Caregiver Child Relationship, Child Behavior
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Pracana, Clara, Ed.; Wang, Michael, Ed. – Online Submission, 2016
We are delighted to welcome you to the International Psychological Applications Conference and Trends (InPACT) 2016, taking place in Lisbon, Portugal, from 30 of April to 2 of May, 2016. Psychology, nowadays, offers a large range of scientific fields where it can be applied. The goal of understanding individuals and groups (mental functions and…
Descriptors: Conferences (Gatherings), Educational Psychology, Clinical Psychology, Social Psychology