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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
Download full textGulin Yazici-Celebi; Muge Yilmaz; Muhammed Enes Karacoskun; Aybuke Irem Sahin – Journal of Education in Science, Environment and Health, 2024
Suicide, which is defined as an individual's intentionally attempting to end his or her life, is considered an important public health problem. In this study, it was aimed to examine the relationship between cognitive distortions and suicide probability in university students who are in age groups at risk for suicide, and to examine the mediating…
Descriptors: Suicide, Probability, Cognitive Processes, College Students
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
Yangqian Wang; Gang Cheng; Xianhong Zhou; Haili Yang; Niuniu Fu; Fangyuan Ding – Psychology in the Schools, 2024
The present study examined the relationship between adult attachment and subjective social status (SSS) in college students through a cross-sectional survey (Study 1) and a longitudinal study (Study 2). In Study 1, 1300 college students were recruited via research flyers and online campus advertisements. They completed measures of adult attachment…
Descriptors: Attachment Behavior, Social Status, Anxiety, Psychological Patterns
Vando Gusti Al Hakim; Su-Hang Yang; Jen-Hang Wang; Hung-Hsuan Lin; Gwo-Dong Chen – IEEE Transactions on Learning Technologies, 2024
The use of robots in education has the potential to engage students in learning activities and aims to form lasting relationships with them. To encourage sustainable, long-term human-robot interactions, a promising approach is to cultivate a pet-like, interdependent relationship. However, the potential of such relationships in education remains…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Robotics, Interaction, Attachment Behavior
Stacey L. Alexander; Margarita Frederico; Maureen Long; Don Vicendese – Journal of Occupational Therapy, Schools & Early Intervention, 2024
Secure attachment has broad and long-lasting benefits for the development and wellbeing of a child. Conversely, disorganized attachment is associated with social, emotional, and behavioral problems in children, and later psychopathology. Children with a developmental delay or disability (DD) may be at greater risk of insecure or disorganized…
Descriptors: Children, Disabilities, Developmental Delays, Attachment Behavior
Yildiz, Banu – International Journal of Psychology and Educational Studies, 2023
Effectively addressing and resolving conflicts in close relationships plays an important role in maintaining healthy relationships. Therefore, in this study, it is aimed to examine the predictive role of attachment styles (anxiety and avoidance) and the growth fear in close relationships on constructive and destructive conflict resolution…
Descriptors: Conflict Resolution, Attachment Behavior, Fear, Anxiety
Martin P. Fladerer; Sophie Drozdzewski; Alexandra Hauser; Eva Lermer; Angela Kuonath; Dieter Frey – Studies in Higher Education, 2023
University mentoring programs are often implemented as an instrument to support students' personal development and successful transition to university. Scholars and practitioners alike emphasize the importance of matching for high-quality peer mentoring. However, mentoring theory and research lacks specificity regarding relevant characteristics…
Descriptors: Mentors, Peer Teaching, College Students, Role Models
Olerilwe Topo Mokokwe; Botlhe Eva Ntsinyane; Kennedy Amone-P'Olak – British Journal of Guidance & Counselling, 2024
Worldwide, childhood sexual abuse (CSA) is widespread with severe consequences. We assessed the influence of CSA on insecure attachment in 488 young women in Botswana with no history of CSA, a history of CSA without re-occurrence in adulthood, and a history of CSA with re-occurrence in adulthood. Binary logistic regression analyses were fitted to…
Descriptors: Child Abuse, Sexual Abuse, Attachment Behavior, Young Adults
Antonia Misch; Andrea Kramer; Markus Paulus – Developmental Science, 2024
Attachment theory proposes that young children's experiences with their caregivers has a tremendous influence on how children navigate their social relationships. By the end of early childhood, intergroup contexts play an important role in their social life and children build strong ties to their ingroups. Although both domains relate to the same…
Descriptors: Preschool Children, Group Behavior, Child Behavior, Attachment Behavior
Andrea Juhásová; Sona Adamicková – Problems of Education in the 21st Century, 2024
Interactional psychological literacy is an emerging concept in educational disciplines in the contexts of understanding and effectively navigating social and emotional interactions within educational settings. Attachment theory posits that early relationships with caregivers shape an individual's future interactions and relationship patterns.…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Preservice Teachers, Undergraduate Students, Attachment Behavior
Kelmanson, Igor A. – Early Child Development and Care, 2022
The study was aimed to explore the values of maternal-fetal attachment (MFA) at different stages of pregnancy using Maternal Antenatal Attachment Scale (MAAS) with the construction of reference percentile curves and to examine possible associations between the measures of MFA and major demographic and obstetric characteristics. The study covered…
Descriptors: Mothers, Embryology, Attachment Behavior, Pregnancy
Hongxia Zhao; Kathryn L. Sharp; Amy Jane Malkus – Early Child Development and Care, 2024
The study examined predictors (teacher-child interactions, teacher-child relationships, child's self-control) of preschoolers' classroom engagement (135 preschoolers, 15 East Tennessee classrooms). Hierarchical linear regression revealed child's self-control significantly contributed to engagement. Teacher-child closeness enhanced engagement, but…
Descriptors: Teacher Student Relationship, Attachment Behavior, Interaction, Preschool Children
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
