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Showing 1 to 20 of 81 for “"attachment security"”.
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Divergence in Siblings' Adult Attachment Security: Potential Contributors and Consequences
… research has revealed only modest concordance in attachment security between siblings during childhood and adolescence. The first goal of this dissertation was to estimate sibling concordance in adult attachment security and identify factors contributing to divergence. The Adult Attachment …
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Exploring the role of secondary attachment relationships in the development of attachment security.
The process by which earned-secures achieve attachment security in adulthood, despite having insecure parent-child relationships in childhood, was the focus of the current study. As internal working models are thought to be formed within relationships, specifically primary attachment bonds (Bowlby, …
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Emotion Perception in Early Childhood: Relations with Attachment Security and Internal Working Models
… skill within the framework of young children's attachment status and internal working models (IWMs), nor using both dynamic facial expressions and expressive body movement to do so. The present study recruited five and six year old children (mean age 5.62), n = 38, from two separate SES …
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The role of attachment security in the intergenerational transmission of obesity: a longitudinal study
… weight status, child weight status, and attachment security. I hypothesized that, consistent with previous research, I would find a positive relationship between caregiver and child weight; moreover, I predicted that greater child attachment security would attenuate the link between …
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Children's mental representations of attachment: associations with attachment security and parent-child narrative quality
… of children’s mental representations of attachment at 5 years (Attachment Story Completion Task, Bretherton, Ridgeway, & Cassidy, 1990; MacArthur Story Stem Battery, Bretherton, Oppenheim, Buchsbaum, Emde, & the MacArthur Narrative Group, 1990). Predictors included children’s attachment …
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The influence of child attachment security, dietary consumption, and household chaos on executive function
… dietary consumption. Children with more secure attachment representations (Menon et al., 2020) and who eat more healthy foods instead of snack foods or processed meats have been found to have more optimal EF abilities (Cohen et al., 2016; Isaacs & Oates, 2008). Literature has also shown that …
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Family chaos, attachment security, and responsiveness: Associations with appetite self-regulation in early childhood
… Taveras, Birch, & Yanovski, 2015), parent-child attachment relationships (Frankel et al., 2012), and the family context (Fiese & Bost, 2016; Woo Baidal et al., 2016). This is the first set of studies to examine how attachment and individual characteristics inform the development of appetite …
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Factors Related to Changes in Infant Attachment Security: A Test of the Differential Susceptibility Hypothesis
A major tenet of attachment theory is that the stability of the caregiving environment drives the stability of infant attachment security. The research investigating the factors related to the stability and change of infant attachment is limited by its lack attention to infant characteristics …
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A dyadic study examining the association between attachment security and physical health in monogamous, heterosexual couples
… research has examined the relationship between attachment and health, it has rarely been investigated via dyadic means. Much of this research focuses on mental health, rather than physical health outcomes. Further, attachment style is often assessed as being stable over time and relationships, …
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Quality of life for individuals with traumatic brain injury : the influence of attachment security and partner support
… Participants were surveyed regarding their attachment security, relationship satisfaction, partner support, and health-related quality of life (HRQOL). Results from a multiple regression analysis indicated that attachment security accounted for a significant amount of variance in HRQOL …
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The role of inhibitory control, maternal sensitivity, and attachment security in the development and maintenance of self-regulation
… between various constructs drawn from the attachment, temperament, and neuropsychology frameworks in the context of self-regulation development and maintenance. In particular, the study sought to determine whether attachment security in early childhood was a predictor of self-regulation and …
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Maternal Secure Base Scripts, Mother -Child Conversations, and Preschool Children's Attachment Security: A Comparison of *American and Korean Mothers and Their Children
Attachment theory has provided an effective tool for examining early socioemotional and personality development. Caregiver sensitivity and responsiveness have shown to be crucial in forming a secure attachment relationship during the sensorimotor period. As children enter the preschool period, …
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Examining Racial Microaggressions from an Attachment Theory Framework: Contributions of Attachment Security, Defensive Self-Esteem, and Ethnic-Racial Identity as a Product of Ethnic-Racial Socialization
… experience of racial microaggressions. Attachment Theory (Ainsworth, 1969; Bowlby 1982/1969), which incorporates developmental and relational perspectives, may serve as an appropriate framework for examining such contributions. Thus, the present study was guided by Racial …
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The Association Between Adult Attachment and Attributions for Romantic Partners' Negative Behaviors
… behaviors explain the association between adult attachment security and romantic relationship distress. The purpose of this study was to (1) examine the association between adult attachment security and the attributions individuals' make about romantic partners' negative behaviors, (2) …
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Transgenerational Attachment, Life Stress, and the Development of Disruptive Behavior in Preschool Children
… deal of research focuses on representations of attachment, behavioral disorders, and life stress separately, research integrating these concepts has just recently begun (DeKlyen, 1996). The current study focuses on the links between transgenerational attachment, life stress, maternal …
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Father Involvement, Paternal Sensitivity and Father -Child Attachment in the First Three Years
… fathers' parenting sensitivity, and father-child attachment security when children were 13 months and 3 years of age. Although there were few associations among these variables at 13 months of age, composite father involvement and fathers' sensitivity at age 3 independently and interactively …
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Attachment patterns, prejudice, and empathy
… of my PhD is to examine one mechanism by which attachment security may lead to decreased prejudice, thus examining novel research hypotheses. Research supports the prediction that high attachment avoidance and high attachment anxiety are associated with high negativity toward outgroups (Hofstra, …
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The Dynamic Interplay of Attachment and Temperament in Relation to Dimensions of Aggression
… related to adolescents’ temperament and attachment security. Measures of adolescents’ temperament, attachment security, and aggression were completed by 211 adolescents, ages 10–14, and their caregivers. Attachment security was consistently associated with all four dimensions of …
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Security priming in everyday life: how do symbols of close others support attachment in adulthood?
Security priming refers to the idea that exposure to simple, attachment-relevant cues—such as photographs of loved ones—can enhance psychological security and related outcomes. While security priming effects have been robustly demonstrated in laboratory settings, there is growing interest in …
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