The efficacy of a short-term attachment-based intervention for changing risk outcomes for
children of maltreating families was examined using a randomized control trial. Sixty-seven …

Although security of attachment is conceptualised as a balance between infants' attachment
and exploratory behaviours, parental behaviours pertaining to infant exploration have …

The aim of this study was to examine the developmental significance of the newly developed
dimensional approach to attachment state of mind by investigating its capacity to predict …

We hypothesized that trajectories of domestic violence (DV), maternal depression, and
household income (from pregnancy to age 4) would be differentially associated with …

Background: Ecological and transactional theories link child outcomes to accumulated risk.
This study hypothesized that cumulative risk was negatively related to attachment, and that …

The 72-item version maternal behavior Q-set (MBQS; Pederson & Moran, 1995) was used to
assess maternal behaviors (N= 74) during the Strange Situation Procedure. Results …

In this chapter, we argue that maternal sensitivity is best understood as a dyadic construct
dynamically affected by transacting factors emerging from multiple levels of influence. Using …

This prospective study examined the relationship between maternal prenatal
representations of the infant and later infant–mother attachment, including contextual factors …

It is now well established that children of adolescent mothers are at risk for a number of
developmental difficulties. The purpose of this review is to examine the relation between the …

Il presente lavoro si colloca nell'ambito degli studi sui fattori di rischio per la genitorialità e
considera, nello specifico, il disagio sociale in quanto deprivazione economica e bassa …