Perceived Attachment Security to Father, Academic Self-Concept and School Performance in Language Mastery

Bacro, Fabien

doi:10.1007/s10826-011-9561-1

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“…In line with recent studies (Bacro, 2012), our results suggested that the child's (scripted) knowledge of secure base/safe haven, both with respect to mother and father, was positively related with verbal IQ. On the contrary, attachment disorganization with respect to mother, identified in the third factor, was negatively related to verbal IQ.…”

Section: Influences From Verbal Fluencysupporting

confidence: 92%

A Comparison of Attachment representations to Mother and Father using the MCAST

Folco

Martini

Piermattei

et al. 2020

Scandinavian J Psychology

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The aim of the current study was to examine the factorial structure of the Manchester Child Attachment Story Task (MCAST), using a father doll to address the child's attachment representation to father. While the MCAST, a doll story completion task measuring attachment representations in early childhood, has been validated for use with a mother doll, its use for assessing attachment to father is relatively unexplored. Thus, an additional aim was to compare the factorial structure of the child's attachment representation to father and mother, respectively. We analyzed data from 118 first‐grade children who underwent counterbalanced administration of the MCAST with a mother and father doll, respectively, within a period of three months. Exploratory factorial analysis revealed similar, three‐factor solutions for attachment to father and mother, with a first factor capturing the child's (scripted) knowledge of secure base/safe haven and a second factor reflecting intrusive and conflict behavior. The third factor was different in the father and mother representations, capturing self‐care and role‐reversal in attachment to father and disorganization in attachment to mother. Findings support the potential usefulness of the MCAST for exploring the father‐child relationship and highlight a need for further research on early attachment representations to father.

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Section: Influences From Verbal Fluencysupporting

confidence: 92%

A Comparison of Attachment representations to Mother and Father using the MCAST

Folco

Martini

Piermattei

et al. 2020

Scandinavian J Psychology

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“…Research suggests an evolving dialectic that may be different for mother-child and father-child relationships (Barco, 2012; Bogels & Perotti, 2011; Paquette, 2004). Generally speaking, the findings from this study lend support to all of these propositions.…”

Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Ebb and Flow in Parent-Child Interactions: Shifts from Early through Middle Childhood

2015

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Objective This study documents the strength of relations between key parent and child behaviors as they occur during typical encounters for both mothers and fathers and determines whether there were shifts in the strength of relations between parent and child behaviors during early and middle childhood. Design Multivariate multi-level modeling was used to examine associations between three parent behaviors (respect for autonomy, stimulation of development, hostility) and two child behaviors (agency, negativity) as they occurred in typical parent-child activities at four time points from 54 months through 5th grade for 817 families. Results For mothers and fathers, respect for autonomy and stimulation were associated with child agency. Paternal hostility was negatively associated with child agency, but for mothers the relation became more positive with age. Parental respect for autonomy and hostility were associated with child negativity for both mothers and fathers; however, for mothers, relations between autonomy support and child negativity became more positive, and relations between hostility and child negativity became less positive. Conclusions There are clear shifts in the strength of relations between some parenting behaviors and child behaviors from early to middle childhood, indicative of a changing dialectic as children become more independent and different dialectics for mothers and fathers. Parenting behavior links to child competence and adaptive behavior, and the findings may help resolve some uncertainties about relations between parental behavior and children's developmental trajectories.

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“…Relation-specific influences have also been shown: for example, attachment security in relation to father predicts self-perceptions of high academic competence (Bacro, 2012), while attachment security in relation to peers predicts a positive social self-perception (Verschueren, Doumen, & Buyse, 2012).…”

Section: Accepted Manuscriptmentioning

confidence: 99%