Configurations of mother-child and father-child attachment relationships as predictors of child language competence: An individual participant data meta-analysis.

Journal

Child development

ISSN: 1467-8624

Titre abrégé: Child Dev

Pays: United States

ID NLM: 0372725

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Date de publication:
22 Aug 2023

Historique:

revised: 11 05 2023

received: 22 08 2022

accepted: 25 05 2023

medline: 22 8 2023

pubmed: 22 8 2023

entrez: 22 8 2023

Statut: aheadofprint

Résumé

An individual participant data meta-analysis was conducted to test pre-registered hypotheses about how the configuration of attachment relationships to mothers and fathers predicts children's language competence. Data from seven studies (published between 1985 and 2014) including 719 children (M

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DOI: 10.1111/cdev.13998 PMID: 37606486

pubmed: 37606486

doi: 10.1111/cdev.13998

doi:

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Journal Article

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eng

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Investigateurs

Ora Aviezer (O)

Marian Bakermans-Kranenburg (M)

Kristin Bernard (K)

Geoffrey L Brown (GL)

Jean-François Bureau (JF)

Or Dagan (O)

Robbie Duschinsky (R)

Rina D Eiden (RD)

R M Pasco Fearon (RMP)

Sheri Madigan (S)

Carla Martins (C)

Mirjam Oosterman (M)

Glenn I Roisman (GI)

Abraham Sagi-Schwartz (A)

Carlo Schuengel (C)

Isabel Soares (I)

Howard Steele (H)

Social Research (S)

Marinus H Van IJzendoorn (MH)

Marije L Verhage (ML)

Maria S Wong (MS)

Julie Braungart-Rieker (J)

Deborah M Capaldi (DM)

Cristina Colonnesi (C)

E Mark Cummings (EM)

Diane Lickenbrock (D)

Sarah Mangelsdorf (S)

Eva Inês Costa Martins (EIC)

Ana Osório (A)

Susana Tereno (S)

Brenda L Volling (BL)

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