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Sequelae of Infants' Negative Affectivity in the Contexts of Emerging Distinct Attachment Organizations: Multifinality in Mother-Child and Father-Child Dyads across the First Year

Infants’ high negative affectivity often initiates maladaptive parent-child relational processes that may involve both the parent’s and the child’s sides of the relationship. We proposed that infants’ high negative affectivity triggers distinct …

Infants' Attachment Security and Children's Self-Regulation within and outside the Parent-Child Relationship at Kindergarten Age: Distinct Paths for Children Varying in Anger Proneness

Research in developmental psychology has robustly documented positive associations between parent-child attachment security and the child's self-regulation (SR). This study of 102 community mothers, fathers, and infants contributes to that research …

Negative Internal Working Models as Mechanisms that Link Mothers' and Fathers' Personality with Their Parenting: A Short-term Longitudinal Study

Objective. Research on associations between parents' personality and parenting has a long history, but mechanisms that explain them remain unsettled. We examined parents' explicit and implicit negative Internal Working Models (IWMs) of the child, …