ArticleAttachment & human development2017
Trajectories of mothers' emotional availability: relations with infant temperament in predicting attachment security.
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- Psychometric Properties of Parent-Child (0-5 years) Interaction Outcome Measures as Used in Randomized Controlled Trials of Parent Programs: A Systematic Review.Clinical child and family psychology review · 2019Pooled it
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- Maternal nighttime sleep and infant-mother attachment security: The mediating role of maternal parenting quality during bedtime and free play.Developmental psychology · 2022Article
- The feasibility of an objective measure of the parent-child relationship in health visiting practice: assessment of the Maternal Postnatal Attachment Scale.Wellcome open research · 2022Article
- Quality of coparenting and infant-mother attachment: The mediating role of maternal emotional availability.Journal of family psychology : JFP : journal of the Division of Family Psychology of the American Psychological Association (Division 43) · 2021Article
- Infant temperament as a predictor of maternal attachment: A Jordanian study.Nursing open · 2021Article
- Diurnal rhythmicity in breast-milk glucocorticoids, and infant behavior and sleep at age 3 months.Endocrine · 2020Article
- Maternal sleep patterns and parenting quality during infants' first 6 months.Journal of family psychology : JFP : journal of the Division of Family Psychology of the American Psychological Association (Division 43) · 2020Article
- Caregivers' Grit Moderates the Relationship Between Children's Executive Function and Aggression.Frontiers in psychology · 2020Article
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Abstract
The present study examined observations of parenting quality (mothers' emotional availability - EA) during infant bedtimes at 4 points across the infants' first year, assessing relations between levels and trajectories of EA and infant attachment at 12 months and the role of infant temperament in moderating these associations. The sample (N = 128) was predominantly Euro-American (82.5%) and at low socioeconomic risk. Latent growth curve modeling with latent basis coefficients indicated substantial individual differences in initial levels and slopes in EA trajectories across the first year. Both levels of maternal EA and EA trajectories across the first year predicted 12-month infant attachment security. Although maternal EA tended to decrease across the first year in the full sample, EA trajectories that showed a "bounce-back" between 6 and 12 months, suggesting more successful maternal adaptation to an expanding infant developmental repertoire, predicted greater infant security at 12 months. In addition, linkages between latent EA trajectories and 12-month attachment were moderated by 3-month infant temperamental reactivity and regulation. These findings indicate that infant attachment security is sensitive to both static and dynamic aspects of parenting quality across the first year, and that infant temperament can interact with both in predicting infant attachment.
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