Quality of attachment to father and mother and number of reciprocal friends

Early Child Development and Care

Volumn 181, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 27-38

  Veríssimo, Manuela ^a   Santos, António J ^a   Vaughn, Brian E ^b   Torres, Nuno ^a   Monteiro, Ligia ^b   Santos, Orlando ^a  

^a INSTITUTO SUPERIOR DE PSICOLOGIA APLICADA   (Portugal)

^b AUBURN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Father attachment; Friendship; Mother attachment; Preschool

Indexed keywords

EID: 78651093470     PISSN: 03004430     EISSN: 14768275     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/03004430903211208     Document Type: Article

References (68)

1. Ahnert, L., Pinquart, M., & Lamb, M.E. (2006). Security of children's relationships with nonparental care providers: A meta-analysis. Child Development, 74, 664-679.
2. Ainsworth, M.D.S., Blehar, M.C., Waters, E., & Wall, S. (1978). Patterns of attachment: A psychological study of the strange situation. Hillsdale, NJ: Erlbaum.
3. Amâncio, L., & Wall, K. (2004). Famílias e papeis de género: Alguns dados recentes do Family and Gender Survey (ISSP)[Families and gender roles: Some recent data from the Family and Gender Survey]. Coimbra, Portugal: VIII Congresso Luso-Afro-Brasileiro de ciências sociais.
4. Balancho, L.S. (2004). Ser pai: Transformações intergeracionais na paternidade. (Being a father: Intergenerational transformations in parenthood) Análise Psicológica, 22(2), 377-386.
5. Berndt, T.J. (1996). Exploring the effects of friendship quality on social development. In W.M. Bukowski, A.F. Newcomb, & W.W. Hartup (Eds.), The company they keep: Friendship in childhood and adolescence (pp. 346-365). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
6. Berndt, T.J. (2002). Friendship quality and social development. Current Directions on Psychological Science, 11, 7-11.
7. Bost, K.K., Vaughn, B.E., Washington, W.N., Cielinsky, K.L., & Bradbard, M.R. (1998). Social competence, social support, and attachment: Demarcation of construct domains, measurement, and paths of influence for preschool children attending head start. Development Child, 69(1), 192-218.
8. Bowlby, J. (1982). Attachment and loss: Attachment (Vol.1, 2nd Rev. ed.). New York: Basic Books (Original work published 1969).
9. Bowlby, J. (1989). The role of attachment in personality development and psychopathology. In S. Greenspan & G. Pollack (Eds.), The course of life: Infancy (Vol. 1, pp. 229-270). Madison, CT: International University Press.
10. Bowlby, J. (2002). Cuidados maternos e saúde mental (4a ed.) [Maternal care and mental health]. São Paulo: Martins Fontes.
11. Bridges, L.J., Connel, J.P., & Belsky, J. (1988). Similarities and differences in infant-mother and infant-father interaction in the estrange situation: A component process analysis. Developmental Psychology, 24(1), 92-100.
12. Bukowski, W.M., Pizzamiglio, M.T., & Newcomb, A.F. (1996). Popularity as an affordance for friendship: The link between group and dyadic experience. Social Development, 5(2), 189-202.
13. Cabrera, N.J., Tamis-LeMonda, C.S., Bradley, R.H., Hofferth, S., & Lamb, M. (2001). Fatherhood in the twenty-first century. Child Development, 71(1), 127-136.
14. Cairns, R.B., & Cairns, B.D. (1994). Lifeline and risks: Pathways of youth in our time. New York: Cambridge University Press.
15. Caldera, Y.M. (2004). Paternal involvement and infant-father attachment: A Q-set study. Fathering, 2(2), 191-210.
16. Clark, K.E., & Ladd, G.W. (2000). Connectedness and autonomy support in parent-child relationships: Links to children's socioemotional orientation and peer relationships. Developmental Psychology, 36(4), 485-498.
17. Coie, J.D., Lochman, J.E., Terry, R., & Hyman, C. (1992). Predicting early adolescent disorder from childhood aggression and peer rejection. Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 60, 783-792.
18. Deutsch, F.M. (2001). Equally shared parenting. American Psychological Society, 10(1), 25-28.
19. Dishion, T.J., Eddy, J.M., Haas, E., Li, F., & Spracklen, K. (1997). Friendships and violent behavior during adolescence. Social Development, 6, 207-223.
20. Fox, N., Kimmerly, N., & Schafer, W. (1991). Attachment to mother/attachment to father: A meta-analysis. Child development, 62, 210-225.
21. Frosch, C., Mangelsdorf, S.C., & McHale, J.L. (2000). Marital behavior and the security of preschooler parent-parent attachment relationships. Journal of Family Psychology, 14(1), 144-161.
22. Goossens, F. (1987). Maternal employment and day care. Efects on attachment. In L.W.C. Tavecchio & M.H.Van IJzendoorn (Eds.), Attachment in social networks. Amsterdam, The netherlands: Elsevier.
23. Goossens, F.A., & van IJzendoorn, M.H. (1990). Quality of infants' attachments to professional caregivers: Relation to infant-parent attachment and day-care characteristics. Child Development, 61, 832-837.
24. Grossmann, K., Grossmann, K., Fremmer-Bombik, E., Kindler, H., Scheuerer-Englisch, H., & Zimmermann, P. (2002). The uniqueness of the child-father attachment relationship: Father's sensitive and challenging play as a pivotal variable in a 16-year longitudinal study. Social development, 11(3), 307-331.
25. Hartup, W.W. (1996). The company they keep: Friendships and their developmental significance. Child Development, 67, 1-13.
26. Hay, D.F., Payne, A., & Chadwick, A. (2004). Peer relations in childhood. Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, and Allied Disciplines, 45, 84-108.
27. Howes, C. (1983). Patterns of friendship. Child Development, 54(4), 1041-1053.
28. Howes, C., & Hamilton, C.E. (1992). Children's relationships with caregivers: Mothers and child care teachers. Child Development, 63(4), 859-866.
29. Howes, C., & Oldham, E. (2001). Processes in the formation of attachment relationships with alternative caregivers. In A. Goncu & E. Klein (Eds.), Children in play, story and school (pp. 267-287). New York: Greenwood.
30. Howes, C., Hamilton, C.E., & Phillipsen, L.C. (1998). Stability and continuity of childcaregiver and child-peer relationships. Child Development, 69(2), 418-426.
31. Ladd, G.W., & Kochenderfer, B.J. (1996). Linkages between friendship and adjustment during early school transitions. In W.M. Bukowski, A.F. Newcomb, & W.W. Hartup (Eds.), The company they keep: Friendship in childhood and adolescence (pp. 322-345). New York: Cambridge University Press.
32. Ladd, G., & Price, J.M. (1987). Predicting children's social and school adjustment following the transition from preschool to kindergarten. Child Development, 58(5), 1168-1180.
33. Lamb, M. (1977). Father-infant and mother-infant interactions in the first year of life. Child Development, 48, 167-181.
34. Lamb, M. (1987). Introduction: The emergent American father. In M. Lamb (Ed.), The father's role: Cross-cultural perspectives (pp. 3-26). New Jersey: Lawrence Erlbaum.
35. Lamb, M., Frodi, M., Hwang, C., & Frodi, A. (1983). Effects of paternal involvement for mothers and fathers. Child Development, 54, 450-458.
36. Lamb, M.E. (Ed.). (2004). The role of the father in child development. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley.
37. Lamb, M.E., & Lewis, C. (2004). The development and significance of father-child relationships in two-parent families. In M.E. Lamb (Ed.), The role of the father in child development (pp. 272-306). Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley.
38. Lamb, M.E., & Tamis-Lemonda, C.S. (2004). The role of the father: An introduction. In M.E. Lamb (Ed.), The role of the father in child development (pp. 1-31). Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley.
39. Main, M., & Weston, D.R. (1981). The quality of the toddler's relationship to mother and to father: Related to conflict behavior and the readiness to establish new relationships. Child Development, 52, 932-940.
40. Marcus, R.F., & Mirle, J. (1990). Validity of a child interview measure of attachment as used in child custody evaluations. Perceptual and Motor Skills, 70, 1043-1054.
41. McCandless, B.R., & Marshall, H.R. (1957). A picture sociometric technique for preschool children and its relation to teacher judgments of friendship. Child Development, 28, 139-148.
42. Monteiro, L., Veríssimo, M., Castro, R., & Oliveira, C. (2006). Partilha da responsabilidade parental: Realidade ou expectativa? [Sharing parental responsibility: Reality or expectations?]. Psychologica, 42, 213-229.
43. Monteiro, L., Verissimo, M., Vaughn, B.E., Santos, A.J., & Bost, K.K. (2008). Secure base representations for both fathers and mothers predict children's secure base behavior in a sample of Portuguese families. Attachment & Human Development, 10(2), 1-18.
44. Monteiro, L., Veríssimo, M., Vaughn, B.E., Santos, A.J., Torres, N., & Fernandes, M. (in press). The organization of children's secure base behaviour in two parent Portuguese families and father's participation in child related activities. European Journal of Developmental Psychology.
45. Parke, R.D. (1996). Fatherhood. The developing child (J. Bruner, M. Cole, & A. Karmiloff- Smith, Series Eds.). Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.
46. Parker, J.G., & Asher, S.R. (1987). Peer relations and later personal adjustment: Are lowaccepted children at risk? Psychological Bulletin, 102(3), 357-389.
47. Pleck, J.H., & Masciadrelli, B.P. (2004). Paternal involvement by U.S. residential fathers. Levels, sources, and consequences. In M.E. Lamb (Ed.), The role of the father in child development (pp. 222-306). Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley.
48. Posada, G., Goa, Y., Wu, F., Posada, R., Tascon, M., Schoelmerich, A., et al. (1995). The secure-base phenomenon across cultures: Children's behavior, mother's preferences and experts concepts. In E. Waters, B.E., Vaughn, G., Posada & K. Kondo-Ikemura (Eds.), Monographs of the Society for Research in the Child Development, 60(2-3), 27-47.
49. Rice, K.G., Cunningham, T.J., & Young, M. (1997). Attachment, social competence, and emotional wellbeing: A comparison of black and white late adolescents. Journal of Counseling Psychology, 44, 89-101.
50. Rosen, K.S., & Burke, P.B. (1999). Multiple attachment relationships within families: Mothers and fathers with two young children. Developmental Psychology, 35(2), 436-444.
51. Rubin, K.H., & Coplan, R.J. (1998). Social and non-social play in early childhood: An individual differences perspective. In O.N. Saracho & B. Spodeck (Eds.), Multiple perspectives on play in early childhood education (pp. 144-170). Albany, NY: SUNY Press.
52. Schneider, B.H., Atkinson, L., & Tardif, C. (2001). Child-parent attachment and children's peer relations: A quantitative review. Developmental Psychology, 37, 86-100.
53. Stams, G.J.J.M., Juffer, F., & van IJzendoorn, M.H. (2002). Maternal sensitivity, infant attachment, and temperament in early childhood predict adjustment in middle childhood: The case of adopted children and their biologically unrelated parents. Developmental Psychology, 38, 806-821.
54. Steele, H., Steele, M., & Fonagy, P. (1996). Associations among attachments classifications of mothers, fathers and their infants. Child Development, 67, 541-555.
55. Strayer, F.F., & Santos, A.J. (1996). Affiliative structures in preschool peer groups. Social Development, 5(2), 117-130.
56. Szewczyk-Sokolowski, M., Bost, K., & Wainwright, A. (2005). Attachment, temperament and preschool children's peer acceptance. Social Development, 14(3), 379-397.
57. Torres, A. (2004). Vida conjugal e o trabalho. Uma perspective sociológica [Marital life and work: A sociological perspective]. Oeiras: Celta.
58. van IJzendoorn, M.H., Vereijken, C.M.J.L., Bakermans-Kranenburg, M.J., & Riksen-Walraven, J.M. (2004). Assessing attachment security with the attachment Q-sort: Metaanalytic evidence for the validity of the observer AQS. Child Development, 75, 1188-1213.
59. Vaughn, B.E., Azria, M.R., Krzysik, L., Caya, L.R., Bost, K.K., Newell, W., et al. (2000). Friendship and social competence in a sample of preschool children attending head start. Development Psychology, 36(3), 326-338.
60. Vaughn, B.E., & Waters, E. (1990). Attachment behavior at home and in the laboratory: Q-sort observations and strange situation classifications of one-year-olds. Child Development, 61, 1965-1973.
61. Veríssimo, M., Blicharsky, T., Strayer, F., & Santos, A. (1995). Vinculação e estilos de comunicação da criança [Attachment and communication styles in childhood]. Análise Psicológica, 1-2(XIII), 145-155.
62. Veríssimo, M., Monteiro, L., & Santos, A.J. (2006). Para além da mãe: Vinculação na tríade mãe-pai-criança [Beyond the mother: Attachment in the mother-father-child triad]. In J.C. Coelho Rosa & S. Sousa (Eds.), Caderno do bebé (pp. 73-85). Lisboa: Fim de Século.
63. Veríssimo, M., Monteiro, L, Vaughn, B.E., Santos, A.J., & Waters, H. (2005). Coordenação entre o modelo interno dinâmico da mãe e o comportamento de base-segura dos seus filhos [The coordination between mothers internal working model and child secure base behaviour]. Análise Psicológica, XXIII(2), 7-17.
64. Verschueren, K., & Marcoen, A. (1999). Representation of self and socioemotional competence in kindergartners: Differential and combined effects of attachment to mother and to father. Child Development, 70(1), 183-201.
65. Verschueren, K., & Marcoen, A. (2005). Perceived security of attachment to mother and father: Developmental differences and relations to self-worth and peer relationships at school. In K. Kerns & R. Richardson (Eds.), Attachment in middle childhood (pp. 212-230). New York: Guilford Press.
66. Waters, E. (1995). Appendix A: Attachment Q-set (version 3.0). In E. Waters, B.E. Vaughn, G. Posada & K. Kondo-Ikemura (Eds.), Monographs child development, 60(2-3), 234-246.
67. Waters, E., & Deane, K. (1985). Defining and assessing individual differences in attachment relationships: Q-methodology and the organization of behavior in infancy and early childhood. In I. Bretherton & E. Waters (Eds.), Monographs of the society for research in the child development, 50(1-2), 41-65.
68. Youniss, J. (1986). Development in reciprocity through friendship. In C. Zahn-Waxler, E.M. Cummings, & R. Iannotti (Eds.), Altruism and aggression: Biological and social origins (pp. 88-106). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.