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Martin P. Fladerer; Sophie Drozdzewski; Alexandra Hauser; Eva Lermer; Angela Kuonath; Dieter Frey – Studies in Higher Education, 2023
University mentoring programs are often implemented as an instrument to support students' personal development and successful transition to university. Scholars and practitioners alike emphasize the importance of matching for high-quality peer mentoring. However, mentoring theory and research lacks specificity regarding relevant characteristics…
Descriptors: Mentors, Peer Teaching, College Students, Role Models
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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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Kissgen, Ruediger; Franke, Sebastian; Jorjadze, Nino; Roth, Bernhard; Kribs, Angela – International Journal of Developmental Science, 2021
This study examines the infant-father attachment in infants born preterm (<?1500?g at birth and/or?<?37 weeks gestation) in comparison to full-term infants. The infant-father attachment was assessed using the Strange Situation Procedure at a (corrected) age of 15 months. We found at least half of preterm and full-term infants (50.0% and…
Descriptors: Infants, Fathers, Parent Child Relationship, Attachment Behavior
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Berth, Felix – Paedagogica Historica: International Journal of the History of Education, 2023
This paper examines the changes in infant homes for children under the age of three in West Germany after the Second World War by combining two research perspectives. First, it will show that the increase in institutional care in the decade after 1945 was not simply dictated by a growing number of orphans. Instead, it primarily resulted from the…
Descriptors: Child Care, Residential Care, Parents, Death
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Goagoses, Naska; Bolz, Tijs; Vesterling, Christina; Koglin, Ute – European Journal of Special Needs Education, 2023
The aim of the current investigation was to compare the association between attachment and behaviour problems in children attending regular schools and children attending special education schools with a focus on emotional and social development. We draw upon data collected from 169 children attending regular schools (M[subscript age] = 9.66), and…
Descriptors: Attachment Behavior, Behavior Problems, Special Schools, Students with Disabilities
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Park, Yoobin; Johnson, Matthew D.; MacDonald, Geoff; Impett, Emily A. – Developmental Psychology, 2019
Attachment anxiety is a form of attachment insecurity characterized by chronic worries about rejection and need for reassurance. Given the critical role a sense of security plays in maintaining healthy relationships, individuals high in attachment anxiety tend to struggle in romantic relationships, which carries serious implications for their…
Descriptors: Attachment Behavior, Anxiety, Interpersonal Relationship, Security (Psychology)
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Goagoses, Naska; Koglin, Ute – International Journal of Developmental Science, 2021
The aim of the current study was to investigate whether the association between parental attachment and externalizing behavior is parallelly mediated by dysfunctional emotion regulation and callous-unemotional traits. The community sample included 296 adolescents (M[subscript age]?=?14.90, SD[subscript age]?=?1.31), who completed the Inventory of…
Descriptors: Parent Child Relationship, Attachment Behavior, Emotional Response, Adolescents
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Ortelbach, Niklas; Bovenschen, Ina; Gerlach, Jennifer; Peter, Charlotte; Scheithauer, Herbert – International Journal of Developmental Science, 2022
Due to an increasing number of children under the age of three attending early childhood education and care (ECEC), there is an increasing need for high-quality care settings. In addition to primary caregivers, ECEC teachers are important socializers of children's emotional development and may become children's attachment figures. Early preventive…
Descriptors: Toddlers, Early Childhood Education, Child Care, Prevention
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Gilham, Polly; Fürstenau, Sara – Language and Education, 2020
In this article, we present a qualitative investigation which was conducted as part of a project on school development in the field of multilingualism in Germany. In order to gain insight into the relationship between primary school teachers' language experience and their practice regarding the inclusion of pupils' home languages at school,…
Descriptors: Correlation, Language Usage, Multilingualism, Elementary School Teachers
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Sagi-Schwartz, Abraham – International Journal of Developmental Science, 2016
In this commentary, Sagi-Schwartz evaluates the article by Beckh and Becker-Stoll (2016) on attachment relationships with non-parental caregivers and how it may contribute to public child care. Beckh and Becker-Stoll first describe important background about research on early parent-child relationships, and how their nature and quality might…
Descriptors: Attachment Behavior, Caregiver Child Relationship, Child Care, Parent Child Relationship
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Ahnert, Lieselotte – International Journal of Developmental Science, 2016
In this commentary, Ahnert addresses the Beckh and Becker-Stoll's (2016) paper that characterized positive teacher-child relationships through high levels of closeness and low levels of conflict. Once teacher-child relationships are positively established, the children benefit the most in developmental domains which are considered typically weak…
Descriptors: Attachment Behavior, Teacher Student Relationship, Child Care, Preschool Teachers
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Spangler, Gottfried – International Journal of Developmental Science, 2016
In this commentary, Spangler evaluates the Steele, Perez, Segal, and Steele report that arguede that reflective functioning in adolescence could not be predicted by quality of early infant attachment, but was associated with maternal (but not paternal) attachment representation, assessed before the adolescents' birth. Assuming that parental…
Descriptors: Mothers, Attachment Behavior, Interviews, Adults
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Beckh, Kathrin; Becker-Stoll, Fabienne – International Journal of Developmental Science, 2016
The aim of this article is to demonstrate how relational experiences with parents and preschool teachers provide children with a feeling of security that facilitates the development of competence in different domains. We first focus on the mechanisms regarding how secure attachments to parents serve as an important foundation for later…
Descriptors: Attachment Behavior, Teacher Student Relationship, Child Care, Preschool Teachers
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Plieninger, Hansjörg; Dickhäuser, Oliver – Educational Psychology, 2015
Academic self-concept is positively related to individual achievement but negatively related to class- or school-average achievement: the big-fish--little-pond effect (BFLPE). This contrast effect results from social comparison processes. The BFLPE is known to be long-lasting, universal and robust. However, there is little evidence regarding its…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Academic Achievement, Self Concept, Class Rank
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Beetz, Andrea; Winkler, Nora; Julius, Henri; Uvnäs-Moberg, Kerstin; Kotrschal, Kurt – Journal of Occupational Therapy, Schools & Early Intervention, 2015
Early interventions aim at promoting a good mother-child relationship as basis for a good socio-emotional development, especially in high-risk populations, and at correcting already unfavorable patterns of interaction and are common today. Insecure attachment, both of the child and of the mother, has been identified as a risk factor for early…
Descriptors: Early Intervention, Therapy, Parent Child Relationship, Mothers
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