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The Significance of Insecure and Disorganized Attachment for Children's Internalizing Symptoms: A Meta-Analytic Study
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Groh, Ashley M.; Roisman, Glenn I.; van IJzendoorn, Marinus H.; Bakermans-Kranenburg, Marian J.; Fearon, R. Pasco – Child Development, 2012
This meta-analytic review examines the association between attachment and internalizing symptomatology during childhood, and compares the strength of this association with that for externalizing symptomatology. Based on 42 independent samples (N = 4,614), the association between insecurity and internalizing symptoms was small, yet significant (d =…
Descriptors: Security (Psychology), Attachment Behavior, Meta Analysis, Symptoms (Individual Disorders)
Stress Regulation in Adolescents: Physiological Reactivity during the Adult Attachment Interview and Conflict Interaction
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Beijersbergen, Marielle D.; Bakermans-Kranenburg, Marian J.; van IJzendoorn, Marinus H.; Juffer, Femmie – Child Development, 2008
The current study examined whether adolescents' attachment representations were associated with differences in emotion regulation during the Adult Attachment Interview (AAI; C. George, N. Kaplan, & M. Main, 1996) and during a mother-adolescent conflict interaction task (Family Interaction Task [FIT]; J. P. Allen et al., 2003). Participants…
Descriptors: Conflict, Attachment Behavior, Adolescents, Parent Child Relationship
Research Review: Genetic Vulnerability or Differential Susceptibility in Child Development--The Case of Attachment
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Bakermans-Kranenburg, Marian J.; van IJzendoorn, Marinus H. – Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, 2007
Gene-environment interactions interpreted in terms of differential susceptibility may play a large part in the explanation of individual differences in human development. Reviewing studies on the behavioral and molecular genetics of attachment, we present evidence for interactions between genetic and environmental factors explaining individual…
Descriptors: Genetics, Child Development, Attachment Behavior, Individual Differences
Parental Sensitivity and Attachment in Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder: Comparison with Children with Mental Retardation, with Language Delays, and with Typical Development
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van IJzendoorn, Marinus H.; Rutgers, Anna H.; Bakermans-Kranenburg, Marian J.; Swinkels, Sophie H. N.; van Daalen, Emma; Dietz, Claudine; Naber, Fabienne B. A.; Buitelaar, Jan K.; van Engeland, Herman – Child Development, 2007
This study on sensitivity and attachment included 55 toddlers and their parents. Samples included children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD), mental retardation, language delay, and typical development. Children were diagnosed at 4 years of age. Two years before diagnosis, attachment was assessed with the Strange Situation procedure, and…
Descriptors: Parent Child Relationship, Play, Mental Retardation, Delayed Speech
Autism, Attachment and Parenting: A Comparison of Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder, Mental Retardation, Language Disorder, and Non-Clinical Children
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Rutgers, Anna H.; van IJzendoorn, Marinus H.; Bakermans-Kranenburg, Marian J.; Swinkels, Sophie H. N.; van Daalen, Emma; Dietz, Claudine; Naber, Fabienne B. A.; Buitelaar, Jan K.; van Engeland, Herman – Journal of Abnormal Child Psychology, 2007
Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) have severe and pervasive impairments in the development of social interaction, which may affect the attachment relationship with their parents and may have an impact on parenting. In the current investigation 89 families with young children (mean age 26.5 months) were involved, who were diagnosed as…
Descriptors: Autism, Mental Retardation, Language Impairments, Child Rearing
The Relative Effects of Maternal and Child Problems on the Quality of Attachment: A Meta-Analysis of Attachment in Clinical Samples.
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van IJzendoorn, Marinus H.; And Others – Child Development, 1992
Distributions of child attachment classifications in mother-child dyads in which the mother evidenced physical or mental problems were highly divergent from distributions for normal samples. Distributions of child attachment classifications in mother-child dyads in which the child evidenced physical problems were similar to distributions in normal…
Descriptors: Attachment Behavior, Child Abuse, Early Parenthood, Mental Disorders