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Peer reviewedBretherton, Inge – Monographs of the Society for Research in Child Development, 1985
Provides overview of attachment theory as parented by John Bowlby in "Attachment and Loss". Uses two major concepts from this work to interpret refinements and elaborations of attachment theory attibuted to Mary Ainsworth. Considers how recent insights into development of socioemotional understanding and development of event…
Descriptors: Attachment Behavior, Individual Differences, Infants, Models
Download full textMohar, Carol J. – 1984
It is a common article of belief that each child is unique. Action based on this belief, though, is rare. Researchers have largely neglected the question of the causes of children's individual uniqueness. But, when difficulties and serious problems arise in the course of child rearing, causality is located in the dynamics of family functioning.…
Descriptors: Child Rearing, Etiology, Genetics, Individual Differences
Brody, Gene H.; Stoneman, Zolinda – Advances in Applied Developmental Psychology, 1996
This study represents further work into the area of what specific processes determine whether a sibling relationship will be positive or negative. Specifically addressed was the influence of each child's personality or temperament in shaping the quality and type of sibling relationship. Significant attention was paid to analyzing sibling…
Descriptors: Context Effect, Emotional Development, Family Influence, Family Role
Greenspan, Stanley I., Ed.; Pollock, George H., Ed. – 1980
This volume is the first in "The Course of Life" series which contains original contributions from an international group of scientists and clinicians who have produced much of the current knowledge about the phases of human personality development. These contributions cover the continuum of human development from the prenatal phase…
Descriptors: Developmental Stages, Emotional Problems, Individual Differences, Infant Behavior
Rohner, Ronald P. – 1977
Guided by specific theoretical and methodological points of view--the phylogenetic perspective and the universalistic approach respectively--this paper reports on a worldwide study of the antecedents and effects of parental acceptance and rejection. Parental acceptance-rejection theory postulates that rejected children throughout our species share…
Descriptors: Behavior Theories, Child Abuse, Child Development, Child Neglect
Chambliss, Catherine – 1997
This guide for infant day care providers examines the importance of early experience for brain development and strategies for providing optimal infant care. The introduction discusses the current devaluation of day care and idealization of maternal care and identifies benefits of quality day care experience for intellectual development, sleep…
Descriptors: Child Development, Cognitive Development, Early Experience, Family Environment
Hill, Nancy E. – 1993
A study examined age and sex differences in engagement style and locus of control and their influence on African-American parent-adolescent relationships. The study subjects were 71 students in 9th grade and 57 students in 11th grade from 4 high schools in a large midwestern city; 46 college freshmen attending a large midwestern university; and 46…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Age Differences, Black Students, Blacks
