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The Effect of Attachment Priming on State Attachment Security in Middle Childhood: The Moderating Roles of Trait Attachment and State Attachment Volatility
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Cuyvers, Bien; Verhees, Martine W. F. T.; Van IJzendoorn, Marinus H.; Bakermans-Kranenburg, Marian J.; Rowe, Angela C. M.; Ceulemans, Eva; Bosmans, Guy – Journal of Early Adolescence, 2023
Recent studies showed that attachment security can change within persons, suggesting that there might be an interplay between a rather stable (trait) and rather variable (state) part of attachment. The study's first aim was to investigate whether attachment priming could influence the level of state attachment. The second aim was to explore…
Descriptors: Children, Adolescents, Attachment Behavior, Security (Psychology)
Attachment and Maladjustment: The Role of Effortful Control Development during Middle Childhood
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Joke Heylen; Samuel Budniok; Magali Van de Walle; Rudi De Raedt; Patricia Bijttebier; Simon De Winter; Guy Bosmans – Journal of Early Adolescence, 2024
Latent growth curve modeling was used to investigate the longitudinal link between attachment, effortful control (EC), and maladaptive development during middle childhood. In a community sample, children (Time 1: n = 157; M[subscript age] = 10.91) and their mothers were examined three times over a two-year period. Attachment was operationalized at…
Descriptors: Attachment Behavior, Self Control, Emotional Disturbances, Behavior Problems