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Maternal Care and Attachment Security in Ordinary and Emergency Contexts.
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Posada, German; Jacobs, Amanda; Carbonell, Olga A.; Alzate, Gloria; Bustamante, Maria R.; Arenas, Angela – Developmental Psychology, 1999
Two studies examined the relationship between maternal sensitivity and infant security of attachment in home and hospital contexts. Results are discussed in terms of links between methodology and effect sizes, the generality of links between maternal care and child security, need for research on caregiving in ordinary and emergency situations, and…
Descriptors: Attachment Behavior, Context Effect, Effect Size, Infants
Broadening Our Conceptual Frameworks: Can We Reintroduce Rational Strategies and Implicit Representational Systems to the Study of Psychopathology?
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Lyons-Ruth, Karlen – Developmental Psychology, 1995
Examines methodological and conceptual issues related to the study of the effects of parental depression on children, focusing on the need to develop measures of relational behavior that are well-validated in high risk samples; relational assessments focused around central motivating systems; and methods that describe a variety of individual…
Descriptors: At Risk Persons, Depression (Psychology), Family Relationship, Measures (Individuals)
Risk Mechanisms in Development: Some Conceptual and Methodological Considerations.
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O'Connor, Thomas G.; Rutter, Michael – Developmental Psychology, 1996
Comments on problems raised in this special issue, focusing on the distinctive aspects of the risk research reported. Highlights issues like sample characteristics, measurement strategies, specificity of risk factors, and risk mechanisms. Discusses the challenges of integrating alternative models of risk, with special references to research into…
Descriptors: Adolescent Development, Adolescents, Behavior Development, Behavior Patterns
Known and Potential Processes Underlying Developmental Trajectories in Childhood and Adolescence.
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Wachs, Theodore D. – Developmental Psychology, 1996
Comments on research problems raised in this special issue. Suggests that recent research highlights the nature of the multiple processes underlying variability in child and adolescent adjustment. Views variability as a function of covarying influences from multiple domains, operating on specific developmental outcomes across a background of time…
Descriptors: Adolescent Attitudes, Adolescent Development, Adolescents, Behavior Development
Relative Plasticity, Integration, Temporality, and Diversity in Human Development: A Developmental Contextual Perspective about Theory, Process and Method.
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Lerner, Richard M. – Developmental Psychology, 1996
Comments on the special theme issue examining the roles of socialization, biology, and culture as they affect adaptive and maladaptive developmental outcomes. Proposes a theory-guided research approach, based on four assumptive components of contemporary developmental theories: systematic change and relative plasticity; relationism and…
Descriptors: Adolescent Attitudes, Adolescent Development, Adolescents, Behavior Development
Transitions and Turning Points: Navigating the Passage from Childhood through Adolescence.
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Graber, Julia A.; Brooks-Gunn, Jeanne – Developmental Psychology, 1996
Comments on this special theme issue examining the roles of socialization, biology, and culture as they affect adaptive and maladaptive developmental outcomes. Presents models for predicting and understanding behavioral and affective change at transitions occurring especially from middle childhood through adolescence. Provides examples…
Descriptors: Adolescent Attitudes, Adolescent Behavior, Adolescent Development, Adolescents