We investigated the influence of the child's behavior on the quality of the mutual parent–
child attachment relationships across three generations. We did so using a prospective …

Attachment theory provides an interesting background for thinking about externalizing
behavior (EB) in early childhood and for understanding how parenting influences the child's …

Many developmental theorists have studied the mutual influences in parent–child dyads.
However, absent from this area of work are longitudinal studies that examine how child …

The purpose of the current study was to explore how mother's and father's connectedness
and involvement individually and collectively influence the lives of their children …

We examined differences in mothers' and fathers' parenting practices in relation to child
externalizing behavior. Data were collected from a community sample of 135 cohabiting …

Past meta-analyses show that both child–mother and child–father attachment insecurity are
independently and jointly associated with more externalizing behaviors in children. Little is …

Using multilevel models, we examined mother-, father-, and child-reported (N= 1,336
families) externalizing behavior problem trajectories from age 7 to 14 in nine countries …

The present study examined maternal and paternal parenting practices as mediators of the
link between interparental collaboration and children's externalizing behavior. Parent …

Objective. This study documents the strength of relations between key parent and child
behaviors as they occur during typical encounters for both mothers and fathers, and …

The aim of the current research was to disentangle four theoretically sound models of
externalizing behavior etiology (ie, attachment, language, inhibition, and parenting) by …