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Direct linkMaría del Pilar Montealegre-Ramón; María Teresa Martínez-Fuentes; Julio Pérez-López; Purificación Sierra-García – Early Child Development and Care, 2024
The study aims to clarify the relation between maternal sensitivity and infant attachment security during the first two years of life. A systematic search has been carried out in six databases (Medline, PsycINFO, Web of Science, Science Direct, Scopus and Psychology and Behavioural) between January 2010 and February 2023. The terms used for the…
Descriptors: Mothers, Infants, Parent Child Relationship, Interaction
Robert J. Sternberg; Maren Stern – Roeper Review, 2025
Just as children have fairly consistent attachment styles toward parents, we argue that parents have fairly consistent attachment styles toward children. It generally will be easiest for gifted children to develop their gifts and display them successfully if their parents were securely attached to them. But the children who have experienced…
Descriptors: Parent Child Relationship, Attachment Behavior, Gifted, Child Development
Or Dagan; Carlo Schuengel; Marije L. Verhage; Sheri Madigan; Glenn I. Roisman; Kristin Bernard; Robbie Duschinsky; Marian Bakermans-Kranenburg; Jean-François Bureau; Abraham Sagi-Schwartz; Rina D. Eiden; Maria S. Wong; Geoffrey L. Brown; Isabel Soares; Mirjam Oosterman; R. M. Pasco Fearon; Howard Steele; Carla Martins; Ora Aviezer – Child Development, 2024
An individual participant data meta-analysis was conducted to test pre-registered hypotheses about how the configuration of attachment relationships to mothers and fathers predicts children's language competence. Data from seven studies (published between 1985 and 2014) including 719 children (M[subscript age]: 19.84 months; 51% female; 87% White)…
Descriptors: Parent Child Relationship, Attachment Behavior, Fathers, Mothers
Lianne van Setten; Annick Ledebt; Mirjam Oosterman; Carlo Schuengel; Marleen H. M. de Moor – SAGE Open, 2024
The secure base phenomenon was ascribed to changes in exploration observed during Ainsworth's Strange Situation Procedure (SSP), related to the quality of the attachment relationship. However, infant temperament was not taken into consideration. The current study aims to replicate Ainsworth's findings regarding infant exploration and attachment…
Descriptors: Infant Behavior, Attachment Behavior, Personality Traits, Mothers
Funda Çitil Canbay; Elif Tugçe Çitil; Nuriye Degirmen – Early Child Development and Care, 2024
The study aimed to compare the effects of breastfeeding education and skin-to-skin contact on breastfeeding efficiency and maternal attachment. This study was a three-group randomized controlled study. This study was conducted with 92 women in a delivery room in Türkiye between October 2021 and May 2022. The study consists of continuous early SSC…
Descriptors: Infants, Nutrition, Parent Child Relationship, Mothers
Yan Yang; Song Li; Fang Xie; Xu Chen – Educational Psychology Review, 2024
Academic adjustment is an important task for students, traditionally encompassing three major constructs: academic motivation (e.g., academic self-efficacy), engagement (e.g., persistence with schoolwork), and achievement (e.g., grade point average). Although theoretical links between parent-child attachment and academic adjustment have been…
Descriptors: Students, Children, Adolescents, Parent Child Relationship
Xuefen Jiang; Changlin Liu; Xiao Xiao; Youlong Zhan – European Journal of Developmental Psychology, 2024
Parental attachment promotes moral maturity in adolescents by improving empathy. Narcissism, one of the three dark personalities, affects both empathy and moral development. However, little is known about how narcissism moderates the influence of parental attachment on moral development in adolescents. A total of 1,574 Chinese middle school…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Middle School Students, Attachment Behavior, Parent Child Relationship
Trish Mook – ProQuest LLC, 2024
Risky sexual behaviors in adolescence continue to be a social problem that impacts individuals, families, and communities across the United States. Previous research showed that parents who actively talk with their adolescents about sex and intimacy topics reduce their likelihood of engaging in these behaviors. Still, less is known about what…
Descriptors: Attachment Behavior, Family Relationship, Sexuality, Correlation
France, Lesley-Ann; McIntosh, Sarah; Woods, Kevin – Early Child Development and Care, 2023
Theraplay® is an attachment-based intervention involving adults and children which is practised in a variety of settings across the world. The aim of this scoping review is to explore how Theraplay® has been used as an intervention with children and families in order to inform future practice and to identify any gaps in the current literature. By…
Descriptors: Intervention, Attachment Behavior, Family Involvement, Parent Child Relationship
Kisla, Sule; Çetin, Zeynep – Early Child Development and Care, 2023
This study has been conducted to examine the relationship levels of fathers who have 6- to 12-month-old babies with their fathers, and their attachment status with their babies. The sample group consisted of 313 fathers. Fatherhood Scale and Father-Infant Attachment Scale have been applied to the fathers who participated in our study,…
Descriptors: Infants, Fathers, Attachment Behavior, Parent Child Relationship
Muscat, Luke – Journal of Dance Education, 2023
Parent-Toddler Movement Class (PTMC) is a structured dance curriculum that introduces movement to toddlers and caregivers. Using a qualitative methodological approach, the present study investigated how PTMCs supported the attachment of 27 caregiver-toddler dyads. The children ranged in age from two- to three-years-old and were students enrolled…
Descriptors: Parents, Toddlers, Dance Education, Attachment Behavior
Kathryn A. Kerns; Logan B. Kochendorfer; Carli A. Obeldobel; Laura E. Brumariu – Merrill-Palmer Quarterly: Journal of Developmental Psychology, 2023
Parent-child attachment is robustly associated with typical patterns of emotion regulation but rarely examined in relation to changes in emotion in response to events. We studied how attachment is related to emotion reactivity to positive and negative events and to immediate and delayed emotion recovery from social exclusion. The sample (78%…
Descriptors: Parent Child Relationship, Attachment Behavior, Emotional Response, Preadolescents
Deneault, Audrey-Ann; Hammond, Stuart I.; Madigan, Sheri – Developmental Psychology, 2023
Although numerous individual studies have attempted to link child-parent attachment and prosociality, a systematic picture of that relationship requires a meta-analytic approach that considers different dimensions of prosociality and potential moderators. The current meta-analysis examined 41 studies drawn primarily from North America and Europe…
Descriptors: Literature Reviews, Parent Child Relationship, Attachment Behavior, Prosocial Behavior
Madigan, Sheri; Plamondon, André; Jenkins, Jennifer M. – Developmental Psychology, 2023
Observational studies have shown that caregiver sensitivity predicts child language skills. These studies, however, have entirely relied on between-family designs (single parent-child dyad per family), which cannot rule out the contribution of shared family confounds (e.g., genetics, books in home). The current study investigates whether observed…
Descriptors: Mothers, Parent Child Relationship, Predictor Variables, Receptive Language
Seven, Serdal; Yesilyurt, Ferahim; Seven, Zeynep Deniz – Early Child Development and Care, 2022
The synchronization characteristics of mothers and their 3-year-old children living in large and nuclear family types were examined in a semi-structured play process. Grounded multi-case research was used. The participants of the study consisted of 12 mothers along with their 3-year-old children. Family type (extended and nuclear) and gender of…
Descriptors: Mothers, Preschool Children, Parent Child Relationship, Play
