This meta‐analytic study examined the associations between child‐father attachment in
early childhood and children's externalizing and internalizing behavior problems. Based on …

Attachment theory has played an important role as a framework for exploring and explaining
parent–child relationships and the impact of early relationships on child and adult …

Childhood is the time when we forge our first social bonds, first learn how to express and
read basic human emotions, and first make sense of the physical world. In childhood …

ATHERHOOD SCHOLARS ARE increasingly recognizing the need for theory to Lamb, guide
2000; research Pleck, 2007).(Day This & Lamb, chapter's 2004; objective Marsiglio, is to …

The aim of this longitudinal study was to determine the associations among peer attachment,
warmth from the mother and father, strict control by the mother and father, prosocial …

To reach a greater understanding of the early father− child attachment relationship, this
study examined concurrent and longitudinal associations among father involvement …

Research Findings: In the present meta-analysis, information from 21 studies (representing
22 separate samples) was pooled across a 10-year period (1998–2008). Across 2 primary …

This article presents the approach that other investigators and I take in fathering research
employing the construct of paternal involvement. First, I review the involvement construct …

Most of the many existing ways to conceive and measure paternal relationships incorporate
ways to gauge father involvement. Although father involvement is a well‐established …

High-quality father involvement in childrearing is associated with positive child outcomes.
Yet, variability between fathers in parenting quality remains. The present study examined …