Marinus H Van Ijzendoorn
Biographic Data
| ID | 126964 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Marinus H Van Ijzendoorn |
| GIVEN NAMES | Marinus H |
| FAMILY NAME | Van Ijzendoorn |
| SIGNATURE | VAN IJZENDOORN M H |
| AFFILIATIONS | Leiden University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-1144-454X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 187 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 913 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 187 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1982 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 15 |
Sense of Coherence in the Perinatal Period: A Longitudinal Growth Mixture Modeling Analysis
OBJECTIVES: Previous studies have established that higher Sense of Coherence (SoC) predicts lower pregnancy-specific distress, fewer delivery complications, and increased birth satisfaction. However, less is known about how SoC typically changes over pregnancy, birth, and postnatally and the risk factors and protective factors contributing to SoC trajectory during the perinatal period. In this study, we aim to describe and predict common trajecto…
Prototype updating, contextual renewal, and the role of reward responsiveness in trust learning
Practitioner Review: Clinical insights from attachment theory and research for professionals working with young children and their families
Attachment theory, with its core concepts, perspectives, and insights developed over the past five decades, is influential for professionals working with young children. However, practitioners face challenges translating attachment theory and research into practical applications. This manifests in attachment myths, theoretical misinterpretations, and inconsistency of application. This state‐of‐the‐art review is authored by 47 attachment researche…
Effectiveness of the online video-feedback intervention to promote positive parenting and sensitive discipline (Vipp-Online): A randomized control trial in Chile
The first years of life are considered a crucial period for children’s developmental trajectories. Among the most important predictors of positive child developmental trajectories are parental sensitivity and child-parent attachment security. Both are seriously compromised by parental stress and burnout. The Video-feedback Intervention to promote Positive Parenting and Sensitive Discipline (VIPP-SD) has been developed to promote parental sensitiv…
Brief Report: Priming Attachment Memories Affects Attachment States of Pre-adolescents
Priming or activating memories of (in)secure interactions with parents is expected to activate in-the-moment attachment feelings (aka state-like attachment, as compared to trait-like attachment). In this study, we tested whether priming secure and avoidant attachment memories affected state attachment security, anxiety, and avoidance and whether prime effects depended on trait attachment in 56 early adolescents (42.9% boys; 57.1% girls) aged 10–1…
Differential Susceptibility in the Intergenerational Transmission of Secure Base Script Knowledge
Retracted: Heritability of children's Secure Base Script Knowledge in middle childhood: a twin study with the Attachment Script Assessment
BACKGROUND: Are individual differences in attachment security inborn or shaped by the social environment? In infancy and early childhood, the evidence points to a substantial role of the environment, but a large twin study in early adolescence showed considerable heritability. Here we examined the twin heritability of attachment in middle childhood. We hypothesized that in middle childhood some heritability would emerge. Furthermore, we expected …
Do Child Gender Stereotypes Mediate Associations Between Human Fathers’ Testosterone Levels and Paternal Involvement? Two Studies
This preregistered study investigated whether human paternal testosterone levels predicted fathers’ time spent with their child and their involvement in childcare and household tasks. Additionally, we examined whether associations were mediated by fathers’ attitudes toward child gender stereotypes. Associations were tested in an exploratory sample ( n = 70, M = 6.73 months postpartum, SD = 2.13) and a test sample ( n = 80, M = 2.67 months postpar…
Consensus statement on developmentally appropriate policy and practice for adolescents in foster care
Academic achievement of children with autistic symptoms compared to typically developing children
Children with autistic symptoms experience challenges in school settings, yet little is known about their academic profiles and the mechanisms underlying the association between autistic symptoms and academic achievement. This study examined the association between autistic symptoms and academic achievement in a population-based sample of children with and without (sub)clinical autism spectrum disorder (ASD). We also investigated potential sex di…
DNA methylation at birth and lateral ventricular volume in childhood: A neuroimaging epigenetics study
BACKGROUND: Lateral ventricular volume (LVV) enlargement has been repeatedly linked to schizophrenia; yet, what biological factors shape LVV during early development remain unclear. DNA methylation (DNAm), an essential process for neurodevelopment that is altered in schizophrenia, is a key molecular system of interest. METHODS: In this study, we conducted the first epigenome-wide association study of neonatal DNAm in cord blood with LVV in childh…
Configurations of mother–child and father–child attachment relationships as predictors of child language competence: An individual participant data meta-analysis
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 age: 19.84 months; 51% female; 87% White) were included in the linear mixed effects analyses. Mean language competence scores exceeded the population ave…
Effects of a Baby Carrier Intervention on Fathers’ Sensitivity, Involvement, and Hormonal Levels: Follow-Up of a Randomized Controlled Study
Objective. Fathers are of great importance for healthy child development. This randomized controlled study investigated the longer-term effects of an intervention using a soft baby carrier on fathers' observed sensitive caregiving, involvement, and oxytocin and cortisol levels. Design. First-time fathers were randomly assigned to use a baby carrier ( n = 41) or baby seat ( n = 39) and were asked to use the carrier or seat for at least 6 h per wee…
The quality of qualitative research
In this contribution, we discuss criteria for the quality of qualitative research. We consider reliability and validity as specifications of the comprehensive requirement for 'intersubjective replicability', with which qualitative research should comply. In the data collection phase, 'argumentative' reliability generally must suffice; in the data analysis phase, attention must also be given to 'technical' reliability. Validation of qualitative re…
Response bias is genetically biased: Another argument for Kagan’s philippic against questionnaires in developmental psychology
One of the concerns of Jerome Kagan (2007) in his article "A Trio of Concerns" was the frequent use of questionnaires in developmental psychology and related disciplines. His main reasons were the minimal overlap between (self-)reported and observed phenotypes, the ambiguity of items, and systematic socioeconomic status (SES) disparities in responding. We wondered whether genetic differences would also influence response bias in cases of ambiguou…
Attachment relationship quality with mothers and fathers and child temperament: An individual participant data meta-analysis
0.19), suggesting that temperament plays a small yet significant role in child-mother/child-father insecure-resistant attachment relationships concordance. Taken together, results from this study prompt a more in-depth examination of the mechanism underlying the small yet significantly higher chance that children with increased negative emotionality have for developing multiple insecure-resistant attachment relationships. (PsycInfo Database Recor…
Maternal and paternal sensitivity: Key determinants of child attachment security examined through meta-analysis
19 [-.27, -.11]). For maternal sensitivity, associations were larger in studies that used the Attachment Q-Sort (vs. the Strange Situation), used the Maternal Behavior Q-Sort (vs. Ainsworth or Emotional Availability Scales), had strong (vs. poor) interrater measurement reliability, had a longer observation of sensitivity, and had less time elapse between assessments. For paternal sensitivity, associations were larger in older (vs. younger) father…
Couples' empathy and sensitive responsiveness to a crying baby simulator
Emotional empathy has been linked to prosocial behaviors and is deemed crucial for parenting and caring for infants. This study examined whether emotional empathy (dispositional and in response to infant crying) is associated with sensitive responsiveness, as observed in 221 heterosexual couples (half of whom were expecting their first child) during a standardized caregiving situation. Simulators resembling real infants were used. Caregiving perf…
Does child-mother attachment predict and mediate language and cognitive outcomes? A series of meta-analyses
Facing ostracism: Micro-coding facial expressions in the Cyberball social exclusion paradigm
We show that facial expressions are associated with self-reported negative feelings during social exclusion, discuss that reporter-bias might be minimized using facial expressions, and find divergent associations of observed facial expressions and self-reported negative feelings with later internalizing problems
The first 20,000 strange situation procedures: A meta-analytic review
The Strange Situation Procedure (SSP) was developed five decades ago to assess infant–parent attachment relationships. Although the procedure itself has remained relatively constant in over 285 studies (20,720 dyads) conducted to date, there have been vast sociological changes during this time, and research foci shifts to studying diverse populations. Since its inception, the SSP has also been adopted in over 20 countries. In this meta-analysis, …
Maternal sensitivity in early childhood and body mass index in adolescence: A population-based study on the role of self-regulation as a mediator
Maternal sensitivity has been implicated in various aspects of child health and development, including overweight. However, long-term effects, the role of paternal sensitivity and the explanatory pathways are unclear. This study examined whether maternal sensitivity in early childhood is prospectively associated with adolescent body mass index and whether children's self-regulation mediates this relation. Data from 540 children and their mothers …
Grandparental Support and Maternal Postpartum Mental Health: A Review and Meta-Analysis
Support from grandparents plays a role in mothers' perinatal mental health. However, previous research on maternal mental health has mainly focused on influences of partner support or general social support and neglected the roles of grandparents. In this narrative review and meta-analysis, the scientific evidence on the association between grandparental support and maternal perinatal mental health is reviewed. Searches in PubMed, EMBASE, MEDLINE…
Conduct Problems and Hair Cortisol Concentrations Decrease in School-Aged Children after Vipp-SD: A Randomized Controlled Trial in Two Twin Cohorts
The Video-feedback Intervention to promote Positive Parenting and Sensitive Discipline (VIPP-SD) is effective in increasing parental sensitivity and sensitive discipline, and aims to decrease child behavior problems. Changes in quality of parenting may be accompanied by effects on child stress levels. However, studies of VIPP-SD effects on child behavior problems have shown mixed results and there are no studies to date of the effect of the inter…
The Effect of Attachment Priming on State Attachment Security in Middle Childhood: The Moderating Roles of Trait Attachment and State Attachment Volatility
Recent studies showed that attachment security can change within persons, suggesting that there might be an interplay between a rather stable (trait) and rather variable (state) part of attachment. The study’s first aim was to investigate whether attachment priming could influence the level of state attachment. The second aim was to explore possible moderators explaining individual differences in the relation between state attachment responses to…
Adult attachment representations, parental responsiveness, and infant attachment: A meta-analysis on the predictive validity of the Adult Attachment Interview
About a decade ago, the Adult Attachment Interview (AAI; C. George, N. Kaplan, & M. Main, 1985) was developed to explore parents' mental representations of attachment as manifested in language during discourse of childhood experiences. The AAI was intended to predict the quality of the infant-parent attachment relationship, as observed in the Ainsworth Strange Situation, and to predict parents' responsiveness to their infants' attachment signals.…
Less is more: Meta-analyses of sensitivity and attachment interventions in early childhood
Is early preventive intervention effective in enhancing parental sensitivity and infant attachment security, and if so, what type of intervention is most successful? Seventy studies were traced, producing 88 intervention effects on sensitivity (n = 7,636) and/or attachment (n = 1,503). Randomized interventions appeared rather effective in changing insensitive parenting (d = 0.33) and infant attachment insecurity (d = 0.20). The most effective int…
Maternal sensitivity, infant attachment, and temperament in early childhood predict adjustment in middle childhood: The case of adopted children and their biologically unrelated parents
In a longitudinal study, internationally adopted children (N = 146) placed before 6 months of age were followed from infancy to age 7. Results showed that girls were better adjusted than boys, except in cognitive development, and that easy temperament was associated with higher levels of social, cognitive, and personality development and fewer behavior problems. Higher quality of child-mother relationships, in terms of attachment security and mat…
Threat-related attentional bias in anxious and nonanxious individuals: A meta-analytic study
This meta-analysis of 172 studies (N = 2,263 anxious,N = 1,768 nonanxious) examined the boundary conditions of threat-related attentional biases in anxiety. Overall, the results show that the bias is reliably demonstrated with different experimental paradigms and under a variety of experimental conditions, but that it is only an effect size of d = 0.45. Although processes requiring conscious perception of threat contribute to the bias, a signific…
A psychometric study of the Adult Attachment Interview: Reliability and discriminant validity
The Adult Attachment Interview (AAI) stimulates Ss to retrieve and evaluate attachmentrelated autobiographical memories and has increasingly been used to predict the quality of parent—child interactions and infant—parent attachment relationships. Its reliability and discriminant validity, however, have not yet been examined. In this study, 83 mothers were interviewed twice, 2 months apart, by different interviewers so that the instrument's test—r…
Fostering security? A meta-analysis of attachment in adopted children
Adoption and Cognitive Development: A Meta-Analytic Comparison of Adopted and Nonadopted Children's IQ and School Performance
This meta-analysis of 62 studies (N=17,767 adopted children) examined whether the cognitive development of adopted children differed from that of (a) children who remained in institutional care or in the birth family and (b) their current (environmental) nonadopted siblings or peers. Adopted children scored higher on IQ tests than their nonadopted siblings or peers who stayed behind, and their school performance was better. Adopted children did n…
Experimental evidence for differential susceptibility: Dopamine D4 receptor polymorphism (DRD4 VNTR) moderates intervention effects on toddlers' externalizing behavior in a randomized controlled trial
In a randomized controlled trial we tested the role of genetic differences in explaining variability in intervention effects on child externalizing behavior. One hundred fifty-seven families with 1- to 3-year-old children screened for their relatively high levels of externalizing behavior participated in a study implementing Video-feedback Intervention to promote Positive Parenting and Sensitive Discipline (VIPP-SD), with six 1.5-hr intervention …
Stability and discriminant validity of the Adult Attachment Interview: A psychometric study in young Israeli adults
Fifty-nine male and female Israeli students were interviewed twice by 2 different interviewers at 3month intervals to assess the Adult Attachment Interview's (AAI; C. George, N. Kaplan, & M. Main, 1985) test-retest reliability and the effects of the interviewers on the interview itself as well as its subsequent classification. Various memory measures were used to obtain a wide range of information about subjects' memory abilities. Information was…
Remaining or becoming secure: Parental sensitive support predicts attachment continuity from infancy to adolescence in a longitudinal adoption study
In a longitudinal study with 125 early adopted adolescents, we examined continuity of attachment from infancy to adolescence and the role of parental sensitive support in explaining continuity or discontinuity of attachment. Assessments of maternal sensitive support and infant attachment (Strange Situation Procedure) were completed when infants were 12 months old. When the children were 14 years old, we observed mothers' sensitive support during …
Social development from infancy to adolescence: Longitudinal and concurrent factors in an adoption sample
In the present longitudinal study, early adopted children (N = 160) were followed from infancy to adolescence to assess the influence of previous and concurrent factors on the children's social development. This study allowed for more conclusive evidence of the influence of early and concurrent rearing experiences and temperament on adolescents' social development, independent of shared genetic factors between children and parents. Results showed…
Narrowing the transmission gap: A synthesis of three decades of research on intergenerational transmission of attachment
Twenty years ago, meta-analytic results (k = 19) confirmed the association between caregiver attachment representations and child-caregiver attachment (Van IJzendoorn, 1995). A test of caregiver sensitivity as the mechanism behind this intergenerational transmission showed an intriguing "transmission gap." Since then, the intergenerational transmission of attachment and the transmission gap have been studied extensively, and now extend to diverse…
Goodness-of-fit in center day care: Relations of temperament, stability, and quality of care with the child’s adjustment
Attachment, Intelligence, and Language: A Meta‐analysis
In attachment theory, several hypotheses about the association between attachment and cognitive development have been generated. In a series of meta‐analyses on 32 studies, we tested whether the quality of attachment is related to intelligence (DQ or IQ) and to language competence. Attachment showed a weak association with DQ and IQ measures (combined r = .09; N = 1026). The combined effect size for the relation between attachment and language co…
Invariance of adult attachment across gender, age, culture, and socioeconomic status
Is attachment in adulthood associated with gender, age, culture, or socioeconomic context? There is a widely held belief that males and younger individuals exhibit a more avoidant or dismissive stance toward attachment experiences, as would subjects from individualized, Western societies and from poorer socio-economic environments. Distributions of Adult Attachment Interview (AAI) classifications in various gender, cultural, socioeconomic, and ag…
Surviving the Holocaust: A meta-analysis of the long-term sequelae of a genocide
Adoptees do not lack self-esteem: A meta-analysis of studies on self-esteem of transracial, international, and domestic adoptees
"Children of the dream" revisited: 70 Years of collective early child care in Israeli kibbutzim
This article focuses on kibbutz care for infants and young children.It reviews (a) past and present practices of collective education within the context of its historical background and guiding principles and (b) the results of developmental research regarding the impact of multiple caregiving and group care on children's socioemotional development within the framework of attachment theory.The research results indicate that, from a psychological …
Development of Empathy in Girls During the Second Year of Life: Associations with Parenting, Attachment, and Temperament
The development, antecedents, and concomitants of empathic concern in the second year of life were examined. Associations with parental sensitivity, children's fearfulness and attachment security were investigated. At 16 and at 22 months, 125 firstborn girls from middle‐class families were observed in their homes and in the laboratory. Empathic concern was assessed from the girls’ responses to simulated distress in their mothers and in an unfamil…
Sleep, cognition, and behavioral problems in school-age children: A century of research meta-analyzed
Clear associations of sleep, cognitive performance, and behavioral problems have been demonstrated in meta-analyses of studies in adults. This meta-analysis is the first to systematically summarize all relevant studies reporting on sleep, cognition, and behavioral problems in healthy school-age children (5-12 years old) and incorporates 86 studies on 35,936 children. Sleep duration shows a significant positive relation with cognitive performance …
Infant Attachment, Parenting Stress, and Child Emotional and Behavioral Problems at Age 3 Years
SYNOPSIS Objective. To examine the role of infant attachment classification and parenting stress for toddler emotional and behavior problems. Design. Participants were 606 infant–mother dyads who took part in a population-based cohort study in the Netherlands. Infant–mother attachment classification was assessed using the Strange Situation Procedure when the children were 14 months old. At 18 months, parenting stress was measured with the Dutch v…
Stability in Center Day Care: Relations with Children's Well‐being and Problem Behavior in Day Care 1
Mothers and primary professional caregivers of 186 children, aged 6–30 months, participated in this study in which a new measure for daily stability in center day care was developed, describing staffing, grouping, and program features. Relative contributions of infants’ daily experiences of care stability, quality of care, and mother's daily stress to the child's adjustment to day care were analyzed with hierarchical regressions. The child's adju…
Out of home placement to promote safety? The prevalence of physical abuse in residential and foster care
The Development of Adolescents’ Internalizing Behavior: Longitudinal Effects of Maternal Sensitivity and Child Inhibition
Children's wellbeing and cortisol levels in home-based and center-based childcare
Validation of a Questionnaire Measuring Attitudes toward Females' Social Roles for a Dutch Population
Slade and Jennet's questionnaire, developed in Great Britain, which measures women's attitudes to females' social role was given to Dutch men and women ( n = 728). A detailed investigation of the internal consistency by applying an optimal scaling procedure indicated ways to improve the validity by different weighting of the response categories and by eliminating items that did not fit in a one-dimensional scale. The reduced form of the questionn…
How B is B4? Attachment and Security of Dutch Children in Ainsworth's Strange Situation and at Home
Ainsworth's Strange Situation is a procedure for determining the quality of the attachment between caregivers and young children. This procedure, developed in the United States, has here been applied to a Dutch sample of 66 mother-child pairs. In doing so, the stability, reliability, and validity of the instrument have also been investigated. The instrument was validated by means of a questionnaire for the mothers concerning the feelings of (in-)…
Attachment to soft objects: Its relationship with attachment to the mother and with thumbsucking
The Division of Labor in Dutch Families with Preschool Children
We analyze the actual and the preferred division of family tasks in a group of Dutch families with preschool children. Furthermore, we have tried to give a general description of the activity pattern when both spouses are at home. The results show a noticeable trend towards egalitarianism, particularly in the higher socioeconomic strata; however, this egalitarianism appears not so much afact as an to be pursued. Moreover, even in the ideal situat…
Dependent Attachment: B-4 Children in the Strange Situation
Over the past 15 years the status of the B4 category in Ainsworth's classification system for the Strange Situation has remained unclear, especially as regards the question whether it belongs to the B or the C category. As 22 of a sample of 136 Dutch children were classified as B4, their behavior could be analysed in some detail. This resulted in a characterization of B4-children whom we propose to call ‘dependency attached’. The borderline statu…
Stability of Attachment across Time and Context in a Dutch Sample
Children were observed twice in Ainsworth's Strange Situation to measure the stability of their attachment relationship with the caregiver across 1 mo. To get some insight into the ecological validity of the procedure, the children were randomly divided over four sets of conditions: the home-home, home-lab, lab-home, and lab-lab conditions. The test-retest reliability of the interactive scores was high as was the stability of the classifications.…
Moral Judgment and Concern about Nuclear War
Cross-Cultural Patterns of Attachment: A Meta-Analysis of the Strange Situation
Influencing mother-infant interaction through videotaped or written instruction: Evaluation of a parent education program
Primary appraisal of the Strange Situation: A cross-cultural analysis of preseparation episodes
Studies in various countries-among them Germany
Intergenerational transmission of parenting: A review of studies in nonclinical populations
The multiple caretaker paradox: Data from Holland and Israel
In a multiple caretaker environment, nonparental caregivers can be important attachment figures with considerable impact on children's later socioemotional development
A psychometric study of the Adult Attachment Interview: Reliability and discriminant validity
The Adult Attachment Interview (AAI) stimulates Ss to retrieve and evaluate attachmentrelated autobiographical memories and has increasingly been used to predict the quality of parent—child interactions and infant—parent attachment relationships. Its reliability and discriminant validity, however, have not yet been examined. In this study, 83 mothers were interviewed twice, 2 months apart, by different interviewers so that the instrument's test—r…
Meta-Analytic Confirmation of the Nonword Reading Deficit in Developmental Dyslexia
Marinus H. van Ijzendoorn, Adriana G. Bus, Meta-Analytic Confirmation of the Nonword Reading Deficit in Developmental Dyslexia, Reading Research Quarterly, Vol. 29, No. 3 (Jul. - Aug. - Sep., 1994), pp. 266-275
Stability and discriminant validity of the Adult Attachment Interview: A psychometric study in young Israeli adults
Fifty-nine male and female Israeli students were interviewed twice by 2 different interviewers at 3month intervals to assess the Adult Attachment Interview's (AAI; C. George, N. Kaplan, & M. Main, 1985) test-retest reliability and the effects of the interviewers on the interview itself as well as its subsequent classification. Various memory measures were used to obtain a wide range of information about subjects' memory abilities. Information was…
"Children of the dream" revisited: 70 Years of collective early child care in Israeli kibbutzim
This article focuses on kibbutz care for infants and young children.It reviews (a) past and present practices of collective education within the context of its historical background and guiding principles and (b) the results of developmental research regarding the impact of multiple caregiving and group care on children's socioemotional development within the framework of attachment theory.The research results indicate that, from a psychological …
Breaking the Intergenerational Cycle of Insecure Attachment: A Review of the Effects of Attachment‐Based Interventions on Maternal Sensitivity and Infant Security
In this paper the effectiveness of preventive or therapeutic interventions aiming at enhancing parental sensitivity and children's attachment security is addressed, Sixteen pertinent studies have been reviewed, and 12 studies have been included in a quantitative meta‐analysis ( N = 869). Results show that interventions are more effective in changing parental insensitivity ( d =. 58) than in changing children's attachment insecurity ( d =. 17). Lo…
Joint Book Reading Makes for Success in Learning to Read: A Meta-Analysis on Intergenerational Transmission of Literacy
The current review is a quantitative meta-analysis of the available empirical evidence related to parent-preschooler reading and several outcome measures. In selecting the studies to be included in this meta-analysis, we focused on studies examining the frequency of book reading to preschoolers. The results support the hypothesis that parent-preschooler reading is related to outcome measures such as language growth, emergent literacy, and reading…
Of the way we were: On temperament, attachment, and the transmission gap: A rejoinder to Fox (1995)
In this rejoinder to Fox (1995) , it is argued that development of attachment is environmentally labile during first 5 years of life and that it remains sensitive to environmental changes during childhood and adolescence. The Adult Attachment Interview does not assess the way we were but measures an adult's current mental representation of (past and present) attachment experiences and relationships, particularly with his or her parents. Neverthel…
Attachment, Intelligence, and Language: A Meta‐analysis
In attachment theory, several hypotheses about the association between attachment and cognitive development have been generated. In a series of meta‐analyses on 32 studies, we tested whether the quality of attachment is related to intelligence (DQ or IQ) and to language competence. Attachment showed a weak association with DQ and IQ measures (combined r = .09; N = 1026). The combined effect size for the relation between attachment and language co…
Mothers Reading to Their 3-Year-Olds: The Role of Mother-Child Attachment Security in Becoming Literate
Adriana G. Bus, Marinus H. van Ijzendoorn, Mothers Reading to Their 3-Year-Olds: The Role of Mother-Child Attachment Security in Becoming Literate, Reading Research Quarterly, Vol. 30, No. 4 (Oct. - Nov. - Dec., 1995), pp. 998-1015
Of the way we were: On temperament, attachment, and the transmission gap: A rejoinder to Fox (1995)
Adult attachment representations, parental responsiveness, and infant attachment: A meta-analysis on the predictive validity of the Adult Attachment Interview
About a decade ago, the Adult Attachment Interview (AAI; C. George, N. Kaplan, & M. Main, 1985) was developed to explore parents' mental representations of attachment as manifested in language during discourse of childhood experiences. The AAI was intended to predict the quality of the infant-parent attachment relationship, as observed in the Ainsworth Strange Situation, and to predict parents' responsiveness to their infants' attachment signals.…
Attachment representations in mothers, fathers, adolescents, and clinical groups: A meta-analytic search for normative data.
This meta-analysis on 33 studies, including more than 2,000 Adult Attachment Interview (AAI) classifications, presents distributions of AAI classifications in samples of nonclinical fathers and mothers, in adolescents, in samples from different cultures, and in clinical groups. Fathers, adolescents, and participants from different countries show about the same distribution of AAI classifications as nonclinical mothers do. The distribution of nonc…
Sensitivity and Attachment: A Meta-Analysis on Parental Antecedents of Infant Attachment
This meta-analysis included 66 studies (N= 4, 176) on parental antecedents of attachment security. The question addressed was whether maternal sensitivity is associated with infant attachment security, and what the strength of this relation is. It was hypothesized that studies more similar to Ainsworth's Baltimore study (Ainsworth, Blehar, Waters, & Wall, 1978) would show stronger associations than studies diverging from this pioneering study. To…
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