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ArticleJournal of family psychology : JFP : journal of the Division of Family Psychology of the American Psychological Association (Division 43)2026

Attachment network, interparental conflict, and older siblings' behavior predicting toddler behavior problems.

Myriam Al Bcherraoui, Brenda L Volling, Lin Tan, Richard Gonzalez

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Article in Journal of family psychology : JFP : journal of the Division of Family Psychology of the American Psychological Association (Division 43), 2026. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.

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Myriam Al BcherraouiDepartment of Psychology, University of Michigan.ORCID 0009-0004-1240-3349
Brenda L VollingDepartment of Psychology, University of Michigan.ORCID 0000-0002-2806-7237
Lin TanDepartment of Psychological Science, University of Arkansas.ORCID 0000-0002-9384-264X
Richard GonzalezDepartment of Psychology, University of Michigan.ORCID 0000-0001-6334-0430

Funding

Family Transitions and Toddler Development: A Within-Family PerspectiveR01HD054573 · NICHD · UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN AT ANN ARBOR · PI VOLLING, BRENDA L · 2007 to 2011
$2.4M
Family Transitions Following the Birth of SiblingR01HD042607 · NICHD · UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN AT ANN ARBOR · PI VOLLING, BRENDA L · 2003 to 2009
$2.1M
Family Transitions and Children's Sibling RelationshipsK02HD047423 · NICHD · UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN AT ANN ARBOR · PI VOLLING, BRENDA L · 2004 to 2008
$605k
John E. Fetzer InstituteNational Institutes of Health; Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human DevelopmentNICHD NIH HHS K02 HD047423NICHD NIH HHS R01 HD042607NICHD NIH HHS R01 HD054573
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Abstract

Secure infant-father and infant-mother attachments are associated with fewer internalizing and externalizing behavior problems in childhood. The attachment network underscores relationships with both fathers and mothers to form four distinct configurations of attachment security (e.g., both secure, both insecure). This exploratory study had three aims: (a) to confirm the four classifications of the attachment network with fathers and mothers, (b) to examine whether longitudinal trajectories of toddler behavior problems differed as a function of the attachment network from 18 to 36 months, and (c) to test whether the attachment network would predict toddler behavior problems when other family risk factors (interparental conflict, older siblings' behavior problems) were added as predictors. Participants were 184 second-born, 12-month olds (55.9% girls) who participated in the strange situation procedure with fathers and mothers and were classified into four attachment configurations: both secure, both insecure, secure-mother/insecure-father, insecure-mother/secure-father. Longitudinal linear mixed models were conducted on a subsample of 150 families with both parent reports on externalizing and internalizing behavior problems when toddlers were 18-, 24-, and 36-month old, and interparental conflict and the older siblings' behavior problems when toddlers were 12-month old. Results revealed no effects of attachment in predicting toddlers' behavior problems; only the older siblings' behavior problems predicted toddler behavior problems from 18 to 36 months. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2026 APA, all rights reserved).

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Child BehaviorChild Behavior DisordersFamily ConflictObject AttachmentParent-Child RelationsProblem BehaviorSiblingsAdultChild, PreschoolFather-Child RelationsFemaleHumansInfantLongitudinal StudiesMale

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PMID41556928
PMCPMC12823040

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