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The Uniqueness of the Child–Father Attachment Relationship: Fathers’ Sensitive and Challenging Play as a Pivotal Variable in a 16‐year Longitudinal Study
Karin Grossmann,Klaus E. Grossmann,Elisabeth Fremmer-Bombik,Heinz Kindler,Hermann Scheuerer-Englisch,And Peter Zimmermann +5 more
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A longitudinal study of forty-four families explored fathers' as compared to mothers' specific contribution to their children's attachment representation at ages 6, 10, and 16 years.Abstract:
This longitudinal study of forty-four families explored fathers’ as compared to mothers’ specific contribution to their children's attachment representation at ages 6, 10, and 16 years. In toddlerhood, fathers’ and mothers’ play sensitivity was evaluated with a new assessment, the sensitive and challenging interactive play scale (SCIP). Fathers’ SCIP scores were predicted by fathers’ caregiving quality during the first year, were highly consistent across 4 years, and were closely linked to the fathers’ own internal working model of attachment. Qualities of attachment as assessed in the Strange Situation to both parents were antecedents for children's attachment security in the Separation Anxiety Test at age 6. Fathers’ play sensitivity and infant–mother quality of attachment predicted children's internal working model of attachment at age 10, but not vice versa. Dimensions of adolescents’ attachment representations were predicted by fathers’ play sensitivity only. The results confirmed our main assumption that fathers’ play sensitivity is a better predictor of the child's long-term attachment representation than the early infant–father security of attachment. The ecological validity of measuring fathers’ sensitive and challenging interactive play behavior as compared to infant proximity seeking in times of distress is highlighted. Findings are discussed with respect to a wider view on attachment in that both parents shape their children's psychological security but each in his or her unique way.read more
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Childhood and Society.
TL;DR: The theme of the volume is that it is human to have a long childhood which will leave a lifelong residue of emotional immaturity in man.
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The Adult Attachment Interview
TL;DR: For example, this paper found that sadomasochistic subjects (n =48) developed insecure internal models of personal attachment, as a result of childhoods which were all problematic in one way or another.
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Childhood and Society
TL;DR: Erikson's Childhood and Society as discussed by the authors deals with the relationship between childhood training and cultural accomplishment, analyzing the infantile and the mature, the modern and the archaic elements in human motivation.
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Handbook of Child Psychology
TL;DR: In this article, the authors discuss the importance of biology for human development and the role of the human brain in the development of human cognition and behavior, and propose a model of human development based on the Bioecological Model of Human Development.
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Patterns of Attachment: A Psychological Study of the Strange Situation
TL;DR: In this article, the effects of repetition of the "strange situation" on infants' behavior at home and in the classroom were discussed, as well as the relationship between infants' behaviour in the situation and their mothers' behaviour at home.