A significant focus is placed on positive outcomes for children in today's society. However,
mental health clinicians attest that poor attachments, during early childhood, are likely to …

Negative emotionality, as well as attachment security and disorganization, are seen as
major contributors to social adjustment and maladjustment in childhood. However, relatively …

A ubiquitous finding is that children without friendships are atrisk for psychological and
social dysfunction throughout the lifespan. The assumption is that a child's lack of social …

Objective. To examine the role of infant attachment classification and parenting stress for
toddler emotional and behavior problems. Design. Participants were 606 infant–mother …

A growing body of research has documented an association between children's early
attachment patterns to their caregivers and socioemotional adjustment later in life. A second …

While a great deal of research focuses on representations of attachment, behavioral
disorders, and life stress separately, research integrating these concepts has just recently …

In this article, we will evaluate the evidence concerning links between attachment and
behavior problems in the middle childhood period. We will first provide a general …

Parental bonding can be described as an attachment between the child and parents. In
other words, parental bonding is an emotional bond between infants and their primary …

Human infants form attachments to their caregivers gradually over the course of the first year
of life. Qualitatively different types of attachments, which can be indentified by the end of the …

This report examines the outcomes on various domains of development (cognitive, social
emotional) of children with attachment disorders as well as internal working models of …