Highlights•Diverse processes have been shown to contribute to relationship well-being.•
Responsiveness provides an integrated conceptual model that links these processes.• …

In a series of meta‐analyses, paternal sensitivity was associated with children's (age range:
7 months–9 years) overall cognitive functioning (N= 3,193; k= 23; r=. 19), including …

Researchers have used J. Bowlby's (1969/1982, 1973, 1980, 1988) attachment theory
frequently as a basis for examining whether experiences in close personal relationships …

From leading researchers, this book presents important advances in understanding how
growing up in a discordant family affects child adjustment, the factors that make certain …

There are several different theoretical and research approaches to the study of socialization,
characterized by frequently competing basic tenets and apparently contradictory evidence …

Mothers whose infants varied in early biological characteristics (born at term, n= 120; born at
very low birth weight [VLBW], n= 144) were randomized to a target group (n= 133) or …

This study demonstrated separate linkages between 2 features of positive parenting—
responsiveness to distress and warmth—and different aspects of children's socio‐emotional …

Despite the fact that most people become parents and everyone who has ever lived has had
parents, parenting remains a mystifying subject about which almost everyone has opinions …

Student-teacher relationships play an important role in both teacher and student
experiences in higher education and have been found to be linked to learning, classroom …

Associations between maternal sensitivity to infant distress and nondistress and infant social‐
emotional adjustment were examined in a subset of dyads from the NICHD Study of Early …