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Ahnert, Lieselotte; Pinquart, Martin; Lamb, Michael E. – Child Development, 2006
Meta-analysis aggregated results of 40 investigations involving 2,867 children who averaged 29.6 ("SD" = 8.6) months of age when their attachments to care providers were assessed using either the Strange Situation (SS) or the Attachment Q-Set (AQS). As opposed to parents, secure attachments to nonparental care providers were less likely (using SS)…
Descriptors: Attachment Behavior, Child Welfare, Child Caregivers, Meta Analysis
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Lewis, Charlie; Lamb, Michael E. – European Journal of Psychology of Education, 2003
Although it is often assumed that men have an important influence on their children's development, the supportive evidence can be difficult to locate and summarize. In this paper, we analyse the evidence with respect to four emergent themes. First, men often appear to interact with their children less sensitively than mothers do, and many children…
Descriptors: Play, Mothers, Parent Child Relationship, Fathers