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Early attachment to mothers and fathers: Contributions to preschoolers' emotion...
Fernandes, Carla; Fernandes, Marilia; Santos, António J.; Antunes, Marta; Monteiro, Lígia; Vaughn, Brian E.; Verissimo, ManuelaChildren acquire and develop emotional regulatory skills in the context of parent-child attachment relationships, nonetheless empirical studies have focused mainly on mother and less information is available regarding the role of both parent-child attachment relationships. Furthermore, despite its importance, there is no information regarding preschool years. This study aims to fill this gap by exploring the po...
Links between use of the secure base script and preschool children’s knowledge ...
Fernandes, Carla; Verissimo, Manuela; Fernandes, Marilia; Antunes, Marta; Santos, António J.; Vaughn, Brian E.The links between attachment security and multiple aspects of emotional development have been studied for several decades. Although these studies are valuable insofar some answers related to representations of attachment and emotion knowledge are still open. Preschool aged children (N=40) participated in this study. We used the Attachment Story Completion Task as their attachment measure, with representations m...
Assessing and quantifying the secure base script from narratives produced by pr...
Vaughn, Brian E.; Posada, German; Verissimo, Manuela; Lu, Ting; Nichols, Olivia I.Building on aframework presented by Bretherton and associates, Waters and associates argued that interaction sequences relevant to children's access to and use of asecure base for exploration during infancy/toddlerhood become internalized as script-like representations. For adults, these scripted representations are readily assessed using word-prompt lists d to elicit attachment relevant narratives. However, th...
Links between use of the secure base script and preschool children’s knowledge ...
Fernandes, Carla; Veríssimo, Manuela; Fernandes, Marília; Antunes, Marta; Santos, António; Vaughn, Brian E.Abstract: The links between attachment security and multiple aspects of emotional development have been studied for several decades. Although these studies are valuable insofar some answers related to representations of attachment and emotion knowledge are still open. Preschool aged children (N=40) participated in this study. We used the Attachment Story Completion Task as their attachment measure, with represe...
Network dynamics of affiliative ties in preschool peer groups
Daniel, João Rodrigo; Santos, Antonio José; Fernandes, Carla; Vaughn, Brian E.This study investigated the network dynamics of affiliative ties in Portuguese preschool children, over three consecutive school years, using stochastic actor-based models. Our first goal was to test the extent to which different criteria to identify ties from observational data lead to different theoretical interpretations of model estimates. Contrary to past observational studies the data we use here takes in...
Scripted knowledge about attachment and social competence in preschoolers: over...
Vaughn, Brian E.; Posada, German; Verissimo, ManuelaThe papers in this special issue of Attachment & Human Development address questions concerning relations between attachment representations and social competence during early childhood in samples from five different countries. All studies examined these questions using the concept of the "secure base script" that has been widely studied in samples of adults, adolescents, and school-age children. In all samples...
Preschoolers’ secure base script representations predict teachers’ ratings of s...
Fernandes, M.; Verissimo, Manuela; Santos, António; Fernandes, Carla; Antunes, Marta; Vaughn, Brian E.Recent meta-analyses have reported significant effects of attachment quality on social competence, mostly using observational assessments of attachment behavior to assess security. We analyze the associations between attachment security - assessed as a secure base script, and social competence with peers - measured by teachers' ratings on two self-report instruments, in a Portuguese sample of 82 preschool child...
Mothers, fathers, sons, and daughters: Are there sex differences in the organiz...
Fernandes, Carla; Veríssimo, Manuela; Monteiro, Lígia Maria Santos; Antunes, Marta Justino Ferrúcio; Vaughn, Brian E.; Santos, António JoséRecent empirical studies reporting sex differences in attachment relationships have prompted investigators to consider why and under what conditions such results might be observed. This study was designed to explore possibilities of identifying sex differences in the organization of attachment-relevant behavior during early childhood. Observations of 119 children (59 boys) with their mothers and (separately) wi...
Children's representations of attachment and positive teacher–child relationships
Veríssimo, Manuela; Torres, Nuno; Silva, Filipa; Fernandes, Carla; Vaughn, Brian E.; Santos, António JoséThis study was designed to explore whether children's representations of attachment contribute to the co-construction of positive teacher-child relationships. An assessment of verbal intelligence was included as a predictor on the assumption that teachers might perceive themselves as having better relationships with more verbally competent children. Participants were 52 children from two pre-schools, in the dis...
Co-evolution of friendships and antipathies: A longitudinal study of preschool ...
Daniel, João Rodrigo; Santos, António José; Antunes, Marta Justino Ferrúcio; Fernandes, Marília; Vaughn, Brian E.We used stochastic actor-based models to test whether the developmental dynamics of friendships and antipathies in preschool peer groups (followed throughout three school years) were co-dependent. We combined choices from three sociometric tasks of 142 children to identify friendship and antipathy ties and used SIENA to model network dynamics. Our results show that different social processes drive the developme...