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Repacholi, Betty; Trapolini, Tania – British Journal of Developmental Psychology, 2004
There is growing evidence that insecurely attached children are less advanced in their social understanding than their secure counterparts. However, attachment may also predict how individual children use their social understanding across different relationships. For instance, the insecure child's social-cognitive difficulties may be more…
Descriptors: Social Development, Preschool Children, Attachment Behavior, Verbal Ability
Ubinger, Nicole – Online Submission, 2006
Conduct disorder is a childhood disorder that is often resistant to treatment. Current treatment methods often focus on separate interventions for each environment that the child or adolescent is exhibiting antisocial behavior. Additionally the focus is on the behavior of the child and often does not focus on the family unit or the biology behind…
Descriptors: Attachment Behavior, Antisocial Behavior, Behavior Disorders, Family Environment
Shurman, Lauren A.; Rodriguez, Christina M. – Journal of Interpersonal Violence, 2006
A model of women's readiness to terminate an abusive relationship was examined, using cognitive and emotional factors to predict readiness to change as conceptualized in the transtheoretical model. Factors previously identified in the domestic violence literature were selected to represent cognitive predictors (attribution and attachment style)…
Descriptors: Predictor Variables, Females, Family Violence, Models
van Kuyk, Jef J. – 1997
This paper describes the Netherlands' Pyramid Project, a classroom-based early intervention program which integrates nursery school and primary school organization and content for 3- to 6-year-olds who need special support, such as ethnic or language minority (allochtone) children and children from disadvantaged situations. Section 1 of the paper…
Descriptors: Attachment Behavior, Classroom Environment, Constructivism (Learning), Early Childhood Education
Johnson, Helen L.; Cohen, Michele – 1990
This study examined both maternal and child interaction styles, focusing on the association between differences in maternal level and quality of involvement and the synchrony and affective quality of child interaction behaviors. The subjects were 55 mother-child dyads in which the children (ages 2-5) had been referred to a mental health center…
Descriptors: Affective Behavior, At Risk Persons, Attachment Behavior, Behavior Development
Sroufe, L. Alan; Egeland, Byron – 1989
A longitudinal investigation focused on the etiology of psychiatric and behavioral disorders in a sample of 190 children at risk for developmental problems. Data collection began during pregnancy and included assessments of: (1) parental personality, intelligence, and parenting attitudes; (2) parent-child interaction and relationship quality; (3)…
Descriptors: Aggression, Attachment Behavior, Behavior Problems, Elementary Education
Howes, Carrollee – 1986
Reviewed are studies describing how forms and features of child care systems can influence the development of social competency with peers during the infancy to preschool periods of development. Interactions between the child care and familial systems in influencing social competency with peers are also examined. Sections of the review focus on…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Attachment Behavior, Day Care, Early Childhood Education
Brown, Nancie Mae – 1978
This article maintains that children's inability to learn and relate to others is due to insufficient or incomplete bonding (a process that binds two people together in a close, primary relationship) especially in infancy and early childhood. The five principles of bonding cited include: the role of the senses in the process of bonding experienced…
Descriptors: Anxiety, Attachment Behavior, Childhood Needs, Children
Senate Committee of Canada (Ontario). Standing Senate Committee on Health, Welfare and Science. – 1978
Experiences in prenatal life and early childhood that may cause personality disorders or criminal behavior in later life are examined in these proceedings of the Subcommittee on Childhood Experience as Causes of Criminal Behavior of the Standing Committee on Health, Welfare and Science. This issue, the twelveth in a series of 19 hearings dating…
Descriptors: Adjustment (to Environment), Antisocial Behavior, Attachment Behavior, Biological Influences
Webb, Roger A., Ed. – 1977
This book is a collection of six theoretical and practice oriented papers on issues related to the problems of intervention in the social development of young children. Topics dealt with in the papers are: mother-child interaction in day care and home reared children; the history, function and sequelae of a form of reunion behavior following…
Descriptors: Attachment Behavior, Child Rearing, Day Care, Early Childhood Education
Ainsworth, Mary Salter – 1974
This intensive longitudinal study of mother-infant interaction during the first year of life focuses on the development of attachment. Data on 26 middle-class families were collected by five methods: (1) naturalistic observation of each mother-infant pair during 4-hour home visits, which occurred at 3-week intervals from the infants' 3rd to 54th…
Descriptors: Attachment Behavior, Cognitive Development, Day Care, Home Visits
Halfon, Neal; Shulman, Ericka; Hochstein, Miles – 2001
As part of a series of reports designed to support the implementation of Proposition 10: The California Children and Families Act and to provide comprehensive and authoritative information on critical issues concerning young children and families in California, this report reviews the research about early childhood brain development, examines the…
Descriptors: At Risk Persons, Attachment Behavior, Brain, Child Development

Edwards, Carolyn Pope; Raikes, Helen – Young Children, 2002
Describes the value of nonparental adult-child relationships for infants and toddlers and outlines specific steps that American and Italian educators from relationship-oriented programs rely on to expand on children's relationship dances with their parents. Suggests that educators should initially take the initiative to become attuned to the child…
Descriptors: Attachment Behavior, Caregiver Child Relationship, Caregiver Role, Child Care

Hawkins, J. David; And Others – American Educational Research Journal, 1988
The effects of a package of instructional methods on the academic achievement, behavior, and social bonding of 77 experimental and 83 control students in grade seven who were low achievers in math are described. The potential for preventing discipline problems through promoting sound teaching practices in mainstream classrooms is reviewed. (TJH)
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Attachment Behavior, Behavior Problems, Change Strategies

Bornstein, Marc H.; Tamis-LeMonda, Catherine S. – Developmental Review, 1995
Reviews research on influences on children's symbolic play. Finds little support for the effects of child-adult symbolic play interactions on child solitary play. Discusses three theoretical perspectives that should support these effects: attachment, ethological, and scaffolding theories. Reconsiders the essence of specific variables affecting…
Descriptors: Attachment Behavior, Child Behavior, Cognitive Development, Cognitive Processes