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Garon-Carrier, Gabrielle; Ansari, Arya; Margolis, Rachel; Fitzpatrick, Caroline – Health Education & Behavior, 2023
Separation anxiety symptoms are frequent among preschool-aged children, but it is also a possible gateway for diagnosis of separation anxiety disorder. Early maternal employment after childbirth can increase the risk for the development of separation anxiety symptoms. From an economic perspective, however, securing employment is one effective…
Descriptors: Separation Anxiety, Mothers, Parent Participation, Socioeconomic Status
Klette, Trine; Killén, Kari – Early Child Development and Care, 2019
In this paper, we present findings from the filmed observations of 12 1-year-old toddlers in 10 different Norwegian childcare centres during separations and reunions with their mothers. Separations and reunions are sensitive situations, especially around the age of one, when separation anxiety normally peaks. The observations were conducted when…
Descriptors: Toddlers, Mothers, Parent Child Relationship, Separation Anxiety
Aghebati, Asma; Joekar, Sanaz; Hakim Shoshtari, Mitra; Gharraee, Banafsheh; Maghami Sharif, Zahra – Early Child Development and Care, 2021
This study considered the effect of Triple P as a behavioural family intervention on mothers of children with separation anxiety disorder. Three hundred families with separation anxious children participated in this research which divided into intervention and control groups. The measuring tools were Parenting Scale, Depression Anxiety Stress…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Parent Education, Mothers, Separation Anxiety
Karaman, Omer – International Education Studies, 2018
A transitional object is the selection and binding to an object that reminds the child of the mother and helps deal with separation anxiety in situations where the child is separated from the mother. In reality, many children are observed to have transitional objects and no problems occur. In this case report, the transitional object became…
Descriptors: Separation Anxiety, Attachment Behavior, Foreign Countries, Child Development
Guo, Yuqing; Leu, Szu-Yun; Barnard, Kathryn E.; Thompson, Elaine A.; Spieker, Susan J. – Infant and Child Development, 2015
The present study applied state-space grid analysis to describe how preschooler-mother dyads co-regulate emotion in the Strange Situation. Second-to-second mother and child affect during pre-separation play (baseline) and the final reunion (post perturbation) episodes of the Strange Situation were coded for 80 dyads. Change in emotion…
Descriptors: Preschool Children, Mothers, Parent Child Relationship, Psychological Patterns
Liga, Francesca; Ingoglia, Sonia; Lo Cricchio, Maria Grazia; Lo Coco, Alida – International Journal of Developmental Science, 2015
The study examined the association among mothers' parenting stress, adolescents' emotional separation and self-orientation toward connectedness. Participants were 194 Italian adolescents, aged from 15 to 19 years (mean age = 17.39, SD = 1.18), and their mothers, aged from 33 to 64 years (mean age = 44.35, SD = 5.40). General findings showed that…
Descriptors: Mothers, Child Rearing, Adolescent Attitudes, Adolescents
Peleg, Ora; Miller, Paul; Yitzhak, Meital – British Journal of Guidance & Counselling, 2015
The current study examined the relationship between separation anxiety in adolescents after their transition to middle school, on the one hand, and differentiation of self and separation anxiety in their parents, on the other hand. The sample included 88 adolescents from northern Israel, together with their biological parents. Adolescents'…
Descriptors: Self Concept, Parent Child Relationship, Separation Anxiety, Mothers
Battaglia, Marco; Touchette, Évelyne; Garon-Carrier, Gabrielle; Dionne, Ginette; Côté, Sylvana M.; Vitaro, Frank; Tremblay, Richard E.; Boivin, Michel – Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, 2016
Background: Little is known about how children differ in the onset and evolution of separation anxiety (SA) symptoms during the preschool years, and how SA develops into separation anxiety disorder. In a large, representative population-based sample, we investigated the developmental trajectories of SA symptoms from infancy to school entry, their…
Descriptors: Separation Anxiety, Symptoms (Individual Disorders), Preschool Children, Longitudinal Studies
Aviezer, Ora; Scher, Anat – Early Childhood Research Quarterly, 2013
The present research explored how mothers' own childhood experiences are linked to their perceptions of their children's sleep regulation. It focused on collective sleeping; a practice used in the past in the Israeli kibbutz, and used a quasi-experimental research design to examine whether mothers who were raised in collective sleeping…
Descriptors: Parent Child Relationship, Sleep, Foreign Countries, Separation Anxiety
Kossowsky, Joe; Wilhelm, Frank H.; Roth, Walton T.; Schneider, Silvia – Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, 2012
Background: Separation anxiety disorder (SAD) is one of the most common anxiety disorders in childhood and is predictive of adult anxiety disorders, especially panic disorder. However, the disorder has seldom been studied and the attempt to distinguish SAD from other anxiety disorders with regard to psychophysiology has not been made. We expected…
Descriptors: Anxiety Disorders, Metabolism, Mothers, Identification
Villabo, Marianne; Gere, Martina; Torgersen, Svenn; March, John S.; Kendall, Philip C. – Journal of Clinical Child and Adolescent Psychology, 2012
The objective of this study is to evaluate the psychometrics and clinical efficiency of the Multidimensional Anxiety Scale for Children (MASC), which measures physical symptoms, harm avoidance, social anxiety, and separation/panic. Using a sample of 190 treatment-seeking Norwegian youth (aged 7-13 years, M[subscript age] = 10.3 years, 62.1% male),…
Descriptors: Anxiety Disorders, Mothers, Measures (Individuals), Psychometrics
Navridi, Evanthia; Navridis, Klimis; Midgley, Nick – Early Child Development and Care, 2012
Parent-toddler groups constitute a primary intervention programme whose target is to support and encourage the parent-toddler relationship. Toddlerhood is a developmental period when major, crucial changes take place regarding how children function, as well as their relationship to their parents (especially to their mother). The present paper…
Descriptors: Toddlers, Parents, Foreign Countries, Parent Child Relationship
Benjamin, Courtney L.; Puleo, Connor M.; Kendall, Philip C. – Child & Family Behavior Therapy, 2011
The present study examined multiple informant agreement in reports of treatment gains in a sample of children (M age = 10.27) treated for social phobia, generalized anxiety disorder, and separation anxiety disorder. Mothers and fathers agreed on their child's improvement, and parents and children also generally agreed on the child's improvement.…
Descriptors: Anxiety Disorders, Social Desirability, Mothers, Psychopathology
Wotherspoon, Evelyn; McInnis, Jan – ZERO TO THREE, 2013
This article describes a model for supporting parents and their infants during separations due to temporary foster care. Using a case example, the authors describe a model for visit coaching, including their process for assessment and strategies used for intervention. The lessons learned are: (a) that individual parents can present very…
Descriptors: Parents, Infants, Foster Care, Caregiver Child Relationship
Meins, Elizabeth; Fernyhough, Charles; de Rosnay, Marc; Arnott, Bronia; Leekam, Susan R.; Turner, Michelle – Infancy, 2012
In a socially diverse sample of 206 infant-mother pairs, we investigated predictors of infants' attachment security at 15 months, with a particular emphasis on mothers' tendency to comment appropriately or in a non-attuned manner on their 8-month-olds' internal states (so-called mind-mindedness). Multinomial logistic regression analyses showed…
Descriptors: Mothers, Infants, Attachment Behavior, Parent Child Relationship