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Howe, David – Adoption & Fostering, 1995
Analyzed adoptive parents' view of their children's development within an attachment framework. Found six patterns of adoption ranging from secure/stable to insecure to nonattached. These patterns highlight the influence of care prior to adoption on the quality of present adoption placements. (HTH)
Descriptors: Adolescents, Adoption, Adoptive Parents, Attachment Behavior
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Friedlander, Myrna L.; Dunkle, John H. – Journal of Counseling Psychology, 1996
Therapists (N=73) completed measures that assessed levels of self-directed hostility, perceived social supports, and degree of comfort with attachment. Their clients completed a measure that estimated the working alliance between the third and fifth sessions of therapy. Results show that the above factors predicted the working alliance's bond…
Descriptors: Attachment Behavior, Counseling Effectiveness, Counseling Psychology, Counselor Client Relationship
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Rice, Kenneth G.; And Others – Journal of Counseling Psychology, 1997
Tested an attachment model using 630 late adolescents. The resulting data fit the model reasonably well. The gender of parent differences emerged, in which attachment to father was a more important predictor of social competence than was attachment to mother. Social competence proved a significant predictor of emotional adjustment. (RJM)
Descriptors: Adolescents, Attachment Behavior, Blacks, College Students
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Arbona, Consuelo; Power, Thomas G. – Journal of Counseling Psychology, 2003
Examines the relation of mother and father attachment to self-esteem and self-reported involvement in antisocial behaviors among African American, European American, and Mexican American high school students. Findings indicated that adolescents from the 3 ethnic/racial groups did not differ greatly in their reported attachment. (Contains 70…
Descriptors: Antisocial Behavior, Attachment Behavior, Black Students, Cultural Differences
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Melson, Gail F.; Kim, Jeong-Ran – Early Childhood Research Quarterly, 1990
Observed preschool children with their parents at two separations and reunions at nursery school to determine the role of proximal and distal factors. Parent and child pairs behaved in reciprocal and complementary ways, indicating mutual influence. (BB)
Descriptors: Affection, Age Differences, Attachment Behavior, Emotional Experience
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Nelson, Margaret K. – Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society, 1990
Analyzes the relationships between family day-care providers and the children in their care, based on questionnaire responses of the providers. Discusses ambiguities of distinguishing between feelings toward their own children and those children for whom they provide paid care. Explores effects of the context of care-giving and relations with…
Descriptors: Affective Behavior, Attachment Behavior, Burnout, Child Care Occupations
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Field, Tiffany; And Others – Early Childhood Research Quarterly, 1988
Compared play, social, and attachment behaviors of 71 preschool children who had entered infant day care at varying ages and received varying amounts of day care. Concluded that continuous infant day care in quality centers appears to facilitate preschool social behavior and does not negatively affect attachment behavior. (NH)
Descriptors: Attachment Behavior, Day Care Centers, Early Childhood Education, Infants
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Smith, Ellen Wolpow; Howes, Carollee – Early Childhood Research Quarterly, 1994
Observed the social behavior of 27 preschoolers in the in parent-cooperative preschools. Found that when, their parents were working in the preschool, children engaged in less high-level peer play, initiated play with peers less often and expressed more negative emotion and spent much less time in proximity to adults than when their parents were…
Descriptors: Attachment Behavior, Behavioral Science Research, Caregiver Child Relationship, Child Behavior
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Sagi, Abraham; And Others – Monographs of the Society for Research in Child Development, 1995
Examined attachments that children form with the same caregiver and those that two caregivers form with a child in communal sleeping and family sleeping kibbutzim. Found concordance among relationships between two caregivers and the same child, as the caregivers model behaviors for each other. Found congruence in two infants' relationships to…
Descriptors: Attachment Behavior, Behavioral Science Research, Caregiver Child Relationship, Cultural Differences
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Owens, Gretchen; And Others – Monographs of the Society for Research in Child Development, 1995
Used Current Relationship Interview (CRI) to examine correspondence between adults' models of their current love relationships and generalized attachment models accessed by the Adult Attachment Interview (AAI). Found that early experience influences later relationships, but little support for the idea that a working model formed by caregiver-child…
Descriptors: Adults, Attachment Behavior, Behavioral Science Research, Early Experience
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Kondo-Ikemura, Kiyomi; Waters, Everett – Monographs of the Society for Research in Child Development, 1995
Used adaptation of Attachment Q-Set (AQS) with 24 infant-mother monkey dyads to clarify the secure-base concept. Found that infants of high-ranking monkeys scored higher than those of low-ranking ones, suggesting the origins of the secure-base phenomenon, as well as the importance of exploring infant secure-base behaviors in families of different…
Descriptors: Animal Behavior, Attachment Behavior, Behavioral Science Research, Measures (Individuals)
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Rothbaum, Fred; And Others – Merrill-Palmer Quarterly, 1995
Infants' attachment security with parents, parental behavior, and child behavior were assessed at 18-24 months; problem behavior was assessed when the children were in first grade. Found that mother-child relationship predicted later problem behaviors; father-child relationship did not. Also found that attachment security, maternal acceptance, and…
Descriptors: Attachment Behavior, Behavior Problems, Child Behavior, Child Rearing
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Radke-Yarrow, Marian; And Others – Child Development, 1994
This study examined young children's sensitivity and positive responsiveness to their mothers' needs, using data on 90 preschoolers and their depressed and nondepressed mothers. The highest frequencies of caring behavior were from children with severely depressed mothers, problems in affect regulation, and secure attachment. Girls were found to be…
Descriptors: Affective Behavior, Age Differences, Attachment Behavior, Child Behavior
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van den Boom, Dymphna C. – Child Development, 1994
Examined the effects of a sensitivity intervention program on the Parenting by lower-class mothers of irritable infants. Found that intervention group mothers were significantly more responsive, stimulating, visually attentive, and controlling of their infant's behavior than were control-group mothers. Intervention infants had higher scores than…
Descriptors: Attachment Behavior, Child Rearing, Foreign Countries, Infant Behavior
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Kobak, R. Rogers; And Others – Child Development, 1993
Correlated teens' strategies for regulating their attachment to their mothers as measured by the Adult Attachment Interview, and emotion regulation during teen-mother problem solving. Teens with secure strategies engaged in problem-solving discussions characterized by less dysfunctional anger and less avoidance of problem solving than other teens.…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Anxiety, Attachment Behavior, Behavior Development
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