Parenting Journal · Volume 2 · Issue 4 · Licensed source edition
Foster mothers’ attachment styles and children’s attachment security in middle childhood: a mixed-methods study of the Turkish foster family service model
Originally published 2026-10-12 · Frontiers in Psychology
Frontiers Media SA · DOI 10.3389/fpsyg.2026.1986177 ↗
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How does a foster child describe security with a caregiver?
The study brings children's accounts of security into conversation with foster mothers' own attachment styles.
Who was studied?
Foster mothers and children in eight Turkish provinces
Age / stage: Middle childhood
Read with three questions
- How does a foster child describe security with a caregiver?
- Whose observations or reports were used, and what competing explanations are compatible with them?
- Which features of the study population (foster mothers and children in eight Turkish provinces) would matter when applying the findings in another setting?
Keep the limits in view
Most evidence came from foster mother-child dyads in eight Turkish provinces. Relationships in kinship care or in another care system may have different histories and supports.
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Cezmi Ervüz; Özlem Karakuş (2026). Foster mothers’ attachment styles and children’s attachment security in middle childhood: a mixed-methods study of the Turkish foster family service model Frontiers in Psychology. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2026.1986177
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