Parenting Journal · Volume 1 · Issue 1 · Licensed source edition
Predictors of mother–child interaction quality and child attachment security in at-risk families
Originally published 2014-08-20 · Frontiers in Psychology
Frontiers Media SA · DOI 10.3389/fpsyg.2014.00898 ↗
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How do stressful circumstances and available resources shape early relationship research?
The study examines how families’ wider circumstances accompany emotional availability and attachment, discouraging an explanation based on parental attitude alone.
Who was studied?
Forty first-time mothers with psychosocial or sociodemographic risk factors
Age / stage: Pregnancy through 18 months of child age
Read with three questions
- Which risk factors were examined individually and cumulatively?
- How were emotional availability and attachment observed?
- How does the small sample limit comparison among risk subgroups?
Keep the limits in view
The small sample and very small risk subgroups restricted analysis. Other relevant factors were unmeasured; the results cannot isolate causes or be generalized beyond similar local families.
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Simona De Falco; Alessandra Emer; Laura Martini; Paola Rigo; Sonia Pruner; Paola Venuti (2014). Predictors of mother–child interaction quality and child attachment security in at-risk families Frontiers in Psychology. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2014.00898
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