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Maternal Sensitivity Predicts Child Attachment in a Non-Western Context: A 9-Year Longitudinal Study of Chinese Families
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Theodore E. A. Waters; Rui Yang; Yufei Gu; Victoria Zhu; Lixian Cui; Xuan Li; Niobe Way; Hirokazu Yoshikawa; Xinyin Chen; Sumie Okazaki; Kristen Bernard; Guangzhen Zhang; Zongbao Liang – Child Development, 2025
Despite the long-standing debate over the assumed universality of maternal sensitivity predicting attachment security (i.e., sensitivity hypothesis), few long-term longitudinal investigations on attachment have been conducted outside the Western context. We leveraged data from a prospective 9-year longitudinal study of middle-class families (N =…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Mothers, Affective Behavior, Attachment Behavior
Configurations of Mother-Child and Father-Child Attachment Relationships as Predictors of Child Language Competence: An Individual Participant Data Meta-Analysis
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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
Viewing Teens as Responsible in Family: Implications for Chinese Youth's Academic and Social Adjustment
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Beiming Yang; Zexi Zhou; Varun Devakonda; Bin-Bin Chen; Yang Qu – Child Development, 2025
Using three-wave longitudinal data of 554 Chinese youth (mean age = 13.35 years; 50% girls; T1 = July 2020, T2 = January 2021, T3 = July 2021), this study examined how youth's views of teens regarding family obligation predict their academic functioning and relationship with parents, with attention to the mediating role of youth's sense of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Family Environment, Responsibility, Academic Achievement
Attachment Security Predicts Adolescents' Prosocial and Health Protective Responses to the COVID-19 Pandemic
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Coulombe, Brianne R.; Yates, Tuppett M. – Child Development, 2022
Prosocial and health protective behaviors are critical to contain the COVID-19 pandemic, yet adolescents have been difficult to engage. Attachment security promotes adolescents' capacities to navigate stress, and influences prosocial and health behaviors. Drawing on a diverse sample of 202 adolescents (48% female; 47.5% Latinx) this study…
Descriptors: COVID-19, Pandemics, Prosocial Behavior, Attachment Behavior
An Empirical Test of Prototype and Revisionist Models of Attachment Stability and Change from Middle Childhood to Adolescence: A 6-Year Longitudinal Study
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Waters, Theodore E. A.; Yang, Rui; Finet, Chloë; Verhees, Martine W. F. T.; Bosmans, Guy – Child Development, 2022
We examined the prototype v. revisionist models of attachment stability with a five-wave, 6-year, longitudinal study of attachment security from middle childhood to adolescence in a White Western European sample (N = 157; Wave 1 M[subscript age] = 10.91, SD = 0.87; 52% female). Attachment was assessed using both questionnaire (Experiences in Close…
Descriptors: Models, Attachment Behavior, Children, Adolescents
Beyond Attachment Theory: Indigenous Perspectives on the Child-Caregiver Bond from a Northwest Tribal Community
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Sara F. Waters; Meenakshi Richardson; Sara R. Mills; Alvina Marris; Fawn Harris; Myra Parker – Child Development, 2024
Healthy Indigenous child development is grounded in Indigenous ways of knowing and being. Attachment theory has been influential in understanding the significance of parenting for infant development in Western science but has focused on child-caregiver bonds predominantly within the parent-child dyad. To bring forth Indigenous perspectives…
Descriptors: Caregiver Child Relationship, Tribal Sovereignty, Attachment Behavior, Indigenous Populations