TY - JOUR
T1 - Attachment and bookreading patterns
T2 - A study of mothers, fathers, and their toddlers
AU - Bus, Adriana G.
AU - Belsky, Jay
AU - Van Ijzendoorn, Marinus H.
AU - Crnic, Keith
N1 - Funding Information:
Acknowledgments The research described herein was supported by a grant from the National Institute of Mental Health to Jay Belsky and Keith Crnic (MH44604) and by a Pioneer award of the Netherlands Organization of Scientific Research to Marinus van IJzendoorn. We acknowledge the assistance of H. J. M. Wassink and C. M. van den Hout in coding data.
PY - 1997
Y1 - 1997
N2 - This study, involving 138 families rearing firstborn sons, extends work on bookreading by relating quality of parent-child interactive exchange during bookreading to contemporaneous and antecedent assessments of infant-parent attachment security. One parent and the child were observed when children were 12, 13, 18, and 20 months. At the first and third visit, infant-mother attachment security was assessed, with infant-father attachment security being assessed at the second and fourth visit. Following the assessment of attachment security at 18 and 20 months, parent and child were videotaped in a bookreading session. At 18 and 20 months, children responded to the pictures in a book by pointing and labelling, and their parents tried to initiate these reactions by following predictable routines. In contrast to other mothers, insecure-avoidant mothers were more inclined to read the verbal text and less inclined to initiate interactions around the pictures. Insecure-avoidant children were less inclined to respond to the book and were more distracted. In insecure-resistant dyads, overcontrolling and overstimulating behavior by the mother appeared to covary with ambivalence on the part of the children. The results do not support a similar pattern for the father-child dyads. Implications for family literacy programs are discussed.
AB - This study, involving 138 families rearing firstborn sons, extends work on bookreading by relating quality of parent-child interactive exchange during bookreading to contemporaneous and antecedent assessments of infant-parent attachment security. One parent and the child were observed when children were 12, 13, 18, and 20 months. At the first and third visit, infant-mother attachment security was assessed, with infant-father attachment security being assessed at the second and fourth visit. Following the assessment of attachment security at 18 and 20 months, parent and child were videotaped in a bookreading session. At 18 and 20 months, children responded to the pictures in a book by pointing and labelling, and their parents tried to initiate these reactions by following predictable routines. In contrast to other mothers, insecure-avoidant mothers were more inclined to read the verbal text and less inclined to initiate interactions around the pictures. Insecure-avoidant children were less inclined to respond to the book and were more distracted. In insecure-resistant dyads, overcontrolling and overstimulating behavior by the mother appeared to covary with ambivalence on the part of the children. The results do not support a similar pattern for the father-child dyads. Implications for family literacy programs are discussed.
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U2 - 10.1016/S0885-2006(97)90044-2
DO - 10.1016/S0885-2006(97)90044-2
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:0003332478
SN - 0885-2006
VL - 12
SP - 81
EP - 98
JO - Early Childhood Research Quarterly
JF - Early Childhood Research Quarterly
IS - 1
ER -