This study addresses the extent to which insecure and disorganized attachments increase
risk for externalizing problems using meta‐analysis. From 69 samples (N= 5,947), the …

The purpose of this paper is to evaluate the theory and evidence for the links of parent–child
attachment with internalizing problems in childhood and adolescence. We address three key …

Modern Families brings together research on parenting and child development in new family
forms including lesbian mother families, gay father families, families headed by single …

Parents' responsiveness to infants' exploratory and communicative behaviors predicts infant
word learning during early periods of language development. We examine the processes …

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 …

In a large-scale (N= 317) prospective 8-year longitudinal multiage, multidomain,
multivariate, multisource study, we tested a conservative three-term model linking parenting …

This meta‐analytic review examines the association between attachment and internalizing
symptomatology during childhood, and compares the strength of this association with that for …

Childhood is the time when we forge our first social bonds, first learn how to express and
read basic human emotions, and first make sense of the physical world. In childhood …

This study investigated prospective links between quality of the early caregiving
environment and children's subsequent executive functioning (EF). Sixty‐two families were …

This study leveraged data from the Minnesota Longitudinal Study of Risk and Adaptation
(N= 243) to investigate the predictive significance of maternal sensitivity during the first 3 …