Observational studyAttachment & human development2016
Attachment in middle childhood: predictors, correlates, and implications for adaptation.
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- Children's representations of parents account for multifinality in outcomes of parental control: Evidence from two studies.Development and psychopathology · 2025Article
- Psychological and social factors influencing mother-child bonding in the first year after birth: a model for promoting infant and maternal well-being.Frontiers in psychology · 2025Article
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- The Influence of Perceived Security in Childhood on Adult Self-Concept: The Mediating Role of Resilience and Self-Esteem.Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023Article
- Attachment Stories in Middle Childhood: Reliability and Validity of Clinical and Nonclinical Children's Narratives in a Structured Setting.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2022Article
- Parental Mentalizing during Middle Childhood: How Is the Adoption of a Reflective Stance Associated with Child's Psychological Outcomes?International journal of environmental research and public health · 2022Article
- Maternal Reflective Functioning and Attachment Security in Girls and Boys: A Closer Look into the Middle Childhood.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2021Article
- Making the case for the family model in in-patient child and adolescent mental healthcare.BJPsych bulletin · 2021Article
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- The significance of early parent-child attachment for emerging regulation: A longitudinal investigation of processes and mechanisms from toddler age to preadolescence.Developmental psychology · 2020Article
- The Applicability and Performance of Tools Used to Assess the Father-Offspring Relationship in Relation to Parental Psychopathology and Offspring Outcomes.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2020Review
- Protocol for the Adaptation of a Direct Observational Measure of Parent-Child Interaction for Use With 7-8-Year-Old Children.Frontiers in psychology · 2020Article
- Attachment to mothers and fathers during middle childhood: an evidence from Polish sample.BMC psychology · 2019Article
- Long-term sequelae of mothers' and fathers' mind-mindedness in infancy: A developmental path to children's attachment at age 10.Developmental psychology · 2019Article
- Unraveling middle childhood attachment-related behavior sequences using a micro-coding approach.PloS one · 2019Article
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Abstract
Middle childhood is a relative lacuna in behavioral attachment research. We examined antecedents, correlates, and implications of parent-child attachment at age 10 in a longitudinal study of community families from a Midwestern US state (N = 102, mothers, fathers, and children). Dimensions of security, avoidance, ambivalence, and disorganization of children's attachment to each parent were observed in lengthy naturalistic interactions and assessed using Iowa Attachment Behavioral Coding (IABC). IABC scores were meaningfully associated with history of parental responsiveness (7-80 months) and with earlier and concurrent attachment security, assessed with other established instruments (parent- and observer-rated Attachment Q-Set at 25 months, children's reports at age 8 and 10). Structural equation modeling analyses revealed that the overall history of responsive care was meaningfully associated with Security, Avoidance, and Disorganization at age 10, in both mother-child and father-child relationships, and that most recent care uniquely predicted Security. IABC scores were also meaningfully related to a broad range of measures of child adaptation at ages 10-12. Cumulative history of children's security from infancy to middle childhood, integrating measures across relationships and methodologies, also predicted child adaptation at ages 10-12.
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