George Spangler
Biographic Data
| ID | 682067 |
|---|---|
| NAME | George Spangler |
| GIVEN NAMES | George |
| FAMILY NAME | Spangler |
| SIGNATURE | SPANGLER G |
| AFFILIATIONS | Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-8379-3496 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 22 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 12 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1971 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Comparing Foster and Non‐Foster Adolescents
Adolescents experience substantial changes in their close relationships, which are linked to psychological adjustment. Research on relationships among adolescents in foster care is limited, especially in Germany. This pilot study ( N = 30; 15 in foster families, 15 in biological families) explored how relationship qualities—measured by the Network of Relationships Inventory – Behavioral Systems Version (NRI‐BSV)—relate to psychological difficulti…
Precursors and Effects of Self-reported Parental Reflective Functioning
Parental reflective functioning is thought to provide a missing link between caregivers' own attachment histories and their ensuing parenting behaviors. The current study sought to extend research on this association involving 115 parents, both mothers and fathers, of 5-to-6-year-old preschoolers using the German version of the Parental Reflective Functioning Questionnaire (PRFQ). Our study was the first to combine Adult Attachment Interview clas…
Family risk and early attachment development
Family risks are known to be detrimental to children's attachment development. This study investigated whether parental sensitivity plays different roles in early attachment development in the context of risk: Sensitivity was hypothesized to mediate risk effects on attachment, as well as a moderator that shapes the relation between risk and attachment. Multiple family risks, parental sensitivity (defined as responsivity and supportive presence), …
Mothers With Postpartum Psychiatric Disorders
About 15% of mothers suffer from postpartum psychiatric disorders, such as depression, anxiety, or psychosis. Numerous studies have shown maternal caregiving behavior to be negatively affected under these circumstances. The current study sets out to shed light on specific caregiving behaviors of affected mothers in the context of parental mental illness at an early stage. There are several methods to assess maternal caregiving behavior in terms o…
Disorganized attachment in infancy
Disorganized/Disoriented (D) attachment has seen widespread interest from policy makers, practitioners, and clinicians in recent years. However, some of this interest seems to have been based on some false assumptions that (1) attachment measures can be used as definitive assessments of the individual in forensic/child protection settings and that disorganized attachment (2) reliably indicates child maltreatment, (3) is a strong predictor of path…
Does Mother’s Rather than Father’s Attachment Representation Contribute to the Adolescent’s Attachment Representation
Foster children's attachment security in the first year after placement
Emotional and Adrenocortical Responses of Infants to the Strange Situation
The aim of the study was to investigate biobehavioural organisation in infants with different qualities of attachment. Quality of attachment (security and disorganisation), emotional expression, and adrenocortical stress reactivity were investigated in a sample of 106 infants observed during Ainsworth’s Strange Situation at the age of 12 months. In addition, behavioural inhibition was assessed from maternal reports. As expected, securely attached…
Biobehavioral Organization in Securely and Insecurely Attached Infants
Theron Ware and the Perils of Relativism
As critical commentary on Harold Frederic's The Damnation of Theron Ware (1896) has slowly accumulated during the last fifteen years, there has emerged something of a consensus about the novel at very general levels of interpretation and evaluation.1 Most critics who have written about the novel at some length are agreed upon its status as at least a minor masterpiece of American literature and the ambitiousness of Fred- eric's effort to dramatiz…
The Shadow of a Dream
that they tell us must always remain a wilderness, with all its extraordinary phenomena irredeemably savage and senseless. Spoken by Faulkner, one of the central characters, these words in their anticipation of one of the fundamental assumptions of psychoanalysis provide a valuable hint about the most useful critical approach to William Dean Howells' novel The Shadow of a Dream (1890).' This short novel of about forty thousand words deals with th…
Robert Herrick's Waste
Emotional and Adrenocortical Responses of Infants to the Strange Situation
The aim of the study was to investigate biobehavioural organisation in infants with different qualities of attachment. Quality of attachment (security and disorganisation), emotional expression, and adrenocortical stress reactivity were investigated in a sample of 106 infants observed during Ainsworth’s Strange Situation at the age of 12 months. In addition, behavioural inhibition was assessed from maternal reports. As expected, securely attached…
Foster children's attachment security in the first year after placement
Family risk and early attachment development
Family risks are known to be detrimental to children's attachment development. This study investigated whether parental sensitivity plays different roles in early attachment development in the context of risk: Sensitivity was hypothesized to mediate risk effects on attachment, as well as a moderator that shapes the relation between risk and attachment. Multiple family risks, parental sensitivity (defined as responsivity and supportive presence), …
The Shadow of a Dream
that they tell us must always remain a wilderness, with all its extraordinary phenomena irredeemably savage and senseless. Spoken by Faulkner, one of the central characters, these words in their anticipation of one of the fundamental assumptions of psychoanalysis provide a valuable hint about the most useful critical approach to William Dean Howells' novel The Shadow of a Dream (1890).' This short novel of about forty thousand words deals with th…
Robert Herrick's Waste
Theron Ware and the Perils of Relativism
As critical commentary on Harold Frederic's The Damnation of Theron Ware (1896) has slowly accumulated during the last fifteen years, there has emerged something of a consensus about the novel at very general levels of interpretation and evaluation.1 Most critics who have written about the novel at some length are agreed upon its status as at least a minor masterpiece of American literature and the ambitiousness of Fred- eric's effort to dramatiz…
Biobehavioral Organization in Securely and Insecurely Attached Infants
Emotional and Adrenocortical Responses of Infants to the Strange Situation
The aim of the study was to investigate biobehavioural organisation in infants with different qualities of attachment. Quality of attachment (security and disorganisation), emotional expression, and adrenocortical stress reactivity were investigated in a sample of 106 infants observed during Ainsworth’s Strange Situation at the age of 12 months. In addition, behavioural inhibition was assessed from maternal reports. As expected, securely attached…
Does Mother’s Rather than Father’s Attachment Representation Contribute to the Adolescent’s Attachment Representation
Foster children's attachment security in the first year after placement
Disorganized attachment in infancy
Disorganized/Disoriented (D) attachment has seen widespread interest from policy makers, practitioners, and clinicians in recent years. However, some of this interest seems to have been based on some false assumptions that (1) attachment measures can be used as definitive assessments of the individual in forensic/child protection settings and that disorganized attachment (2) reliably indicates child maltreatment, (3) is a strong predictor of path…
Mothers With Postpartum Psychiatric Disorders
About 15% of mothers suffer from postpartum psychiatric disorders, such as depression, anxiety, or psychosis. Numerous studies have shown maternal caregiving behavior to be negatively affected under these circumstances. The current study sets out to shed light on specific caregiving behaviors of affected mothers in the context of parental mental illness at an early stage. There are several methods to assess maternal caregiving behavior in terms o…
Family risk and early attachment development
Family risks are known to be detrimental to children's attachment development. This study investigated whether parental sensitivity plays different roles in early attachment development in the context of risk: Sensitivity was hypothesized to mediate risk effects on attachment, as well as a moderator that shapes the relation between risk and attachment. Multiple family risks, parental sensitivity (defined as responsivity and supportive presence), …
Precursors and Effects of Self-reported Parental Reflective Functioning
Parental reflective functioning is thought to provide a missing link between caregivers' own attachment histories and their ensuing parenting behaviors. The current study sought to extend research on this association involving 115 parents, both mothers and fathers, of 5-to-6-year-old preschoolers using the German version of the Parental Reflective Functioning Questionnaire (PRFQ). Our study was the first to combine Adult Attachment Interview clas…
Comparing Foster and Non‐Foster Adolescents
Adolescents experience substantial changes in their close relationships, which are linked to psychological adjustment. Research on relationships among adolescents in foster care is limited, especially in Germany. This pilot study ( N = 30; 15 in foster families, 15 in biological families) explored how relationship qualities—measured by the Network of Relationships Inventory – Behavioral Systems Version (NRI‐BSV)—relate to psychological difficulti…
Psychology (8 works) · Developmental psychology (7 works) · Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development (6 works) · Attachment and Relationship Dynamics (5 works) · Attachment theory (4 works) · Child Abuse and Trauma (4 works) · Maternal sensitivity (4 works) · Art (3 works) · Child Welfare and Adoption (3 works) · Clinical Psychology (3 works)