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

Major developments in attachment research over the past 2 decades have introduced
parental mentalization as a predictor of infant–parent attachment security. Parental …

Secure attachment relationships have been described as having a regulatory function in
regard to children's emotions, social cognition, and behavior. Although some theorists and …

Since Mary Ainsworth's formulation of the Sensitivity-Insensitivity to Infant Signals and
Communications observational scale, new instruments have been developed to observe …

Resilience is often associated with extreme trauma or overcoming extraordinary odds. This
way of thinking about resilience leaves most of the ontogenetic picture a mystery. In the …

Sensitive caregiving behavior, which involves the ability to notice, interpret, and quickly
respond to a child's signals of need and/or interest, is a central determinant of secure child …

In the present longitudinal study, we investigated attachment quality in Portuguese mother–
infant and in father–infant dyads, and evaluated whether attachment quality was related to …

The current longitudinal study used data from the National Institute of Child Health and
Human Development (NICHD) Study of Early Child Care and Youth Development …

Background Mothers' reports about pregnancy, maternity and their experiences during the
perinatal period have been associated with infants' later quality of attachment and …

Aim To systematically review the efficacy of parenting interventions in improving the quality
of the relationship between mothers and preterm infants. Method Randomized or quasi …