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Direct linkRobert 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
Elizabeth Hentschel; Saima Siyal; Dana C. McCoy; Henning Tiemeier; Aisha K. Yousafzai – International Journal of Behavioral Development, 2024
Research has shown the importance of responsive caregiving for fostering positive development early in life; however, tools measuring these interactions are often impractical for larger scale intervention trials and in settings with resource constraints. The present study provides reliability and validity evidence from Sindh, Pakistan for a tool…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Infants, Toddlers, Rural Areas
Manning, Leah B. – Early Child Development and Care, 2023
Hierarchical linear modelling was used to explore the effect of changes in maternal sensitivity on attachment over time. Child characteristics of gender, temperament, and developmental status were used as moderating factors. Data from 1,249 mothers and their children from the NICHD Study of Early Child Care and Youth Development when the children…
Descriptors: Mothers, Time Perspective, Attachment Behavior, Sex
Download full textSimona Rogic Ožek – Center for Educational Policy Studies Journal, 2024
This paper presents the results of a study focusing on the dimensions of object relations in people with autism spectrum disorder. An object relation denotes a relationship with a significant other, within which several identification processes take place through a meaningful emotional exchange. This is described by the developmental process of…
Descriptors: Autism Spectrum Disorders, Interpersonal Relationship, Emotional Response, Interpersonal Competence
Jacqueline Barfoot; Pamela Meredith; Koa Whittingham; Lachlan Kerley – Journal of Occupational Therapy, Schools & Early Intervention, 2024
The importance of parent-child relationships for child developmental outcomes suggests a need to incorporate a relationship focus into early intervention programs for children with developmental delays. Nevertheless, confusion exists about the definition and application of relationship-focussed interventions, and occupational therapists remain…
Descriptors: Occupational Therapy, Parent Child Relationship, Children, Developmental Delays
Dagan, Or; Sagi-Schwartz, Abraham – New Directions for Child and Adolescent Development, 2021
Early attachment has been commonly hypothesized to predict children's future developmental outcomes, and robust evidence relying on assessments of single caregiver-child attachment patterns has corroborated this hypothesis. Nevertheless, most often children are raised by multiple caregivers, and they tend to form attachment bonds with more than…
Descriptors: Attachment Behavior, Child Development, Caregiver Child Relationship, Child Caregivers
Jessica A. Stern; Stephanie Irby Coard; Oscar A. Barbarin; Jude Cassidy – Child Development Perspectives, 2024
Within a sociohistorical context of racism-related physical and emotional threats, Black families in the United States have developed sources of resilience to promote children's safety and positive development. Yet research on Black family resilience has rarely been integrated into one of the most influential theories of child development:…
Descriptors: African American Family, Parent Child Relationship, Attachment Behavior, Caregiver Role
Harris, Paul L. – International Journal of Behavioral Development, 2023
Given the legacy of John Bowlby, Attachment theory has often portrayed separation from a caregiver as likely to provoke protest, despair, and ultimately detachment in infants and young children. Indeed, the emotional challenge of separation is built into a key measurement tool of Attachment theory, the Strange Situation. However, James Robertson,…
Descriptors: Young Children, Death, Attachment Behavior, Concept Formation
Çagan, Emine Serap; Genç, Rabia – Early Child Development and Care, 2023
This study aims to determine the effects of kangaroo care at birth on exclusively breastfeeding, infant growth and development according to attachment theory. The study is a randomized controlled trial. The sample of the study consisted of 132 pregnant women between 36 and 38 gestational weeks. Kangaroo care group received 'kangaroo care and…
Descriptors: Neonates, Nutrition, Infant Care, Pregnancy
Armstrong, Kate J.; Berg, Astrid; Lachman, Anusha – Early Child Development and Care, 2023
In South Africa, many infants spend more time with carers other than their parents due to socio-economic demands on mothers. Carers thus play an important role in the infants' lives. This qualitative study explored child carers' knowledge and understanding of the 'first 1000 days' initiative and their perception of themselves as attachment…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Infants, Caregiver Role, Child Caregivers
Andersson Søe, Martina; Schad, Elinor; Psouni, Elia – Child & Youth Care Forum, 2023
Background: Previous research suggests that interactions between preschool teachers and children in early care and educational contexts can contribute to the child's positive attachment development and socioemotional adjustment. Objective: Investigate how the transition process to preschool is organized and whether various ways of organizing it…
Descriptors: Preschool Teachers, Preschool Children, Teacher Student Relationship, Attachment Behavior
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
Yamaguchi, Masanori; Moriguchi, Yusuke – Early Child Development and Care, 2022
Some children form an attachment to a variety of inanimate objects, such as cloths or soft toys, referred to as attachment objects. This study examined the developmental change in children's behaviours toward their attachment objects to understand the role of such objects through an online survey of 700 parents with 0- to 9-year-old children, of…
Descriptors: Children, Attachment Behavior, Toys, Parents
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
