Attachment relationships serve as contexts within which children develop emotional
capacities. This meta-analytic review assessed the strength of associations of parent–child …

Empathy involves understanding and “feeling with” others' emotions, and is an essential
capacity underlying sensitive care in humans and other species. Evidence suggests that the …

For each of the 5 needs in Maslow's motivational hierarchy (physiological, safety-security,
belongingness, esteem, and self-actualization), operational definitions were developed from …

This meta-analytic review examines the association between attachment during the early life
course and social competence with peers during childhood, and compares the strength of …

There is little empirical understanding of how young children's screen engagement links to
their well‐being. Data from 19,957 telephone interviews with parents of 2‐to 5‐year‐olds …

Autonomy, defined as self-regulation and integration in acting, is central to healthy
psychological development and functioning. Classic organismic and dynamic theories have …

This article explores the possibility that romantic love is an attachment process—biosocial
process by which affectional bonds are fromed between adult lovers, just as affectional …

A perspective on the study of personality development recently has evolved, which is an
integration of general developmental theory (Santostefano & Baker, 1972), ego theory …

This book attempts to create a dialogue between the infant as revealed by the experimental
approach and as clinically reconstructed, in the service of resolving the contradiction …

The results of two studies are reported. Study I involved the development of the Inventory of
Parent and Peer Attachment (IPPA), a self-report instrument for use with adolescents …