Browsing by Subject "Attachment behavior in children"
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Item Attachment, autonomy and social competence in adolescence(Texas Tech University, 1986-12) Atkinson, BrendaNot availableItem Attachment, autonomy and social competence in adolescence(Texas Tech University, 1986-12) Atkinson, BrendaNot availableItem The effect of mothers responsiveness to children's social smiles on children's engagement behavior(2005) Cheng, Nina; Dix, Theodore H.; Tharinger, DeborahAlthough it is known that mother’s general responsiveness to children’s emotion predicts the long-term outcomes in children, the processes underlying the effect of mothers’ responsiveness are poorly understood. This study examined the effect of mother’s moment-to-moment responsiveness and unresponsiveness to children’s smiles on children’s interest in engaging their mothers during ongoing interaction. In 20-minute videotaped mother-child interaction, children’s smiles, mothers’ responsiveness, and children’s engagement were coded. Children’s smiles were identified by using Izard’s AFFEX facial coding system. Mothers’ responses to these smiles were coded as responsive or unresponsive. Children’s reactions in turn were coded as engaging or not engaging. It was found that children engaged mothers more when mothers were responsive than unresponsive to children’s smiles. Furthermore, the effect of mothers’ responsiveness to children’s smile was found in the first 5-second interval but not in the 2nd, 3rd, or 4th 5-second intervals. Finally, the latency to children’s first engagement was shorter when mothers were responsive than unresponsive. These findings may elucidate one potential explanatory process underlying the effects of mothers’ responsiveness to children’s emotion on children’s development.Item Friendship and conflict among preschool children(2001-08) Kim, Wheetai; Frost, Joe L.Item The role of attachment in the relationship between maternal and childhood depressive symptomatology: the test of a mediational model(2004) Bennett, Laura Sheffield; Carlson, Cindy I.; Hazen, Nancy Lynn.Item The role of cultural, maternal, and child characteristics on the quality of the mother-infant relationship(Texas Tech University, 2003-05) Ross, Aretha LanellThis study investigated the role of cultural, maternal, and child characteristics on the quality of the mother-infant relationship in 54 Mexican-American mothers and their 6-month infants. Each mother was interviewed in their homes assessing social support, maternal characteristics (education, personality, depression, knowledge of infant development, perception of intentionality) and child characteristics (gender, temperament). Findings suggest that Hispanic mothers' responsivity was affected by maternal perception of intentionality of positive and negative behaviors in their infants. More educated mothers had more knowledge of infant development and were more responsive toward their infants than mothers with fewer years of education. Girls were rated as more difficult than boys. It seems that when one is assessing the quality of the mother-child relationship, multiple domains of behavior must be explored in order to provide a more accurate picture of this relationship and that maternal positive behaviors in the Mexican American population do not follow the expected patterns in non Hispanic White mothers.Item Toward an integration of Beck's cognitive theory and Bowlby's attachment theory : self-schema and adult attachment classification in relation to depressive symptoms(2001-08) Sander, Amy Janay Boswell, 1973-; Stark, Kevin Douglas; Jacobvitz, Deborah