Emerging Topics on Father Attachment : Considerations in Theory, Context and Development

ISBN-13: 9780415574594 / Angielski / Twarda / 2010 / 278 str.

Lisa A. Newland;Harry S. Freeman;Diana D. Coyl

Opis

This title is the first of its kind to focus specifically on children's attachment to fathers, and explores the connections among fathering, family dynamics, and attachment relationships.

Spis treści

1. Fathers in attachment research: A Review  2. Fathers’ role as attachment figures: An interview with Sir Richard Bowlby 3. The Risky Situation: A procedure for assessing the father-child activation relationship  4. Fathers’ frightening and sensitive infant caregiving: Relations with fathers’ attachment representations, father-infant attachment, and children’s later development of emotion regulation and attention problem 5. Q Methodology to assess father–child attachment  6. Intersubjectivity during free infant-father "protoconversation" and within "protoconversation" pauses  7. Positive aspects of fathering and mothering, and children's attachment in kindergarten  8. Observed and reported supportive coparenting as predictors of infant-mother and infant-father attachment security 9. Narrative structure and emotional references in parent-child reminiscing: Associations with child gender, temperament, and the quality of parent-child interactions 10. Paternal attachment, parenting beliefs, and children’s attachment  11. Fathering and attachment in the U.S. and Taiwan: Contextual predictors and child outcomes  12. Gender and cultural patterns of mothers’ and fathers’ attachment and links with children’s self competence, depression and loneliness in middle and late childhood  13. Perceptions of maternal and paternal attachment security in middle childhood: Links with positive parental affection and psychosocial adjustment 14. Mapping young adults’ use of fathers for attachment support: Implications on romantic relationship experiences  15. Nurturing Fathers: A Qualitative Examination of Child-Father Attachment

O autorze

Lisa A. Newland is a professor of educational psychology in the Division of Counseling and Psychology in Education at the University of South Dakota. She teaches courses in child development, statistics, research methods, and child assessment. Her research interests include parent-child relationships and developmental outcomes from infancy to adolescence, fathering and co-parenting, and interactions between home and school settings. Harry S. Freeman is a professor of educational psychology in the Division of Counseling and Psychology in Education at the University of South Dakota. He teaches courses in child and adolescent development, interdisciplinary education, and research methods. His research interests include attachment in parent-child and romantic relationships, and links between these adolescent social worlds. Diana D. Coyl is an associate professor of child development in the College of Behavioral and Social Sciences at California State University at Chico. She teaches courses in school-age and adolescent development, family relations, research methods and statistics. Her research interests include attachment relationships across the lifespan, adolescent identity development, couple relations and parent-child relationships.