In order to assess stability and change in mother-infant interaction, 74 mother-infant dyads
were observed at home under naturalistic conditions when infants were 1, 3, and 9 months …

Relations between maternal postpartum behavior and the emergence of parent‐infant
relatedness as a function of infant autonomic maturity were examined in 56 premature …

This longitudinal study examined predictors of rates of growth in dyadic interaction quality in
children born preterm who did not experience significant neurological findings during …

Main, Kaplan, and Cassidy's conceptualizations of disorganization in infancy and controlling
behavior in preschool forged new directions in attachment research. However, there …

Mother–infant interactions are important to infant development because they are predictive
of infants' social, cognitive, and language development (Lamb et al., 2002, Tamis-LeMonda …

The activation relationship theory serves as a complement to Bowlby's attachment theory to
better understand the impact of fathering on child development, focusing primarily on …

Guided by a microanalytic approach to the study of relationships, we assessed parent,
infant, and coparental behaviors during triadic interactions in 94 parents and their 5‐month …

Taking an ecological systems perspective, early parent–child relationships can be affected
by interactions between systems where some are more proximally linked to the child than …

This prospective study examined whether or not a mother's representations of her infant
were more often disrupted after premature childbirth. Furthermore, the study examined if …

Theories of social-emotional growth propose that repeatedly-experienced parent–infant
interactions shape the individual's adaptation across development, yet few studies …