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Disorganized Behavior in Adolescent-Parent Interaction: Relations to Attachment State of Mind, Partner Abuse, and Psychopathology
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Obsuth, Ingrid; Hennighausen, Katherine; Brumariu, Laura E.; Lyons-Ruth, Karlen – Child Development, 2014
Disoriented, punitive, and caregiving/role-confused attachment behaviors are associated with psychopathology in childhood, but have not been assessed in adolescence. A total of 120 low-income late adolescents (aged 18-23 years) and parents were assessed in a conflict-resolution paradigm. Their interactions were coded with the Goal-Corrected…
Descriptors: Behavior Problems, Attachment Behavior, Low Income Groups, Late Adolescents
Infant Attachment Strategies, Infant Mental Lag, and Maternal Depressive Symptoms: Predictors of Internalizing and Externalizing Problems at Age 7.
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Lyons-Ruth, Karlen; And Others – Developmental Psychology, 1997
Examined predictive relations between infant assessments and behavior problems at age 7 in a low-income sample. Found that disorganized infant attachment behavior and below average mental development at 18 months were associated with externalizing behavior at 7 years. Avoidant infant attachment behavior was associated with later internalizing…
Descriptors: Attachment Behavior, Behavior Problems, Child Behavior, Children
Attachment Relationships among Children with Aggressive Behavior Problems: The Role of Disorganized Early Attachment Patterns.
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Lyons-Ruth, Karlen – Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 1996
Reviews recent attachment-related studies of early aggression. Longitudinal attachment studies indicate that risk factors identified in cross-sectional studies of aggressive school-age children, such as family adversity, parental hostility, parental depression, and child cognitive deficits, are already evident in infancy and predictive of later…
Descriptors: Affective Behavior, Aggression, Attachment Behavior, Behavior