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- Title
Paternal Involvement and Infant-Father Attachment: A Q-Set Study.
- Authors
Caldera, Yvonne M.
- Abstract
The primary purpose of this report was to investigate the correlates of attachment security with fathers and the concordance of mother-infant and father-infant attachment as measured by the Attachment Q-set (AQS, Waters, 1987). Sixty fathers and mothers of 14-month old infants independently described their child using the 90-item AQS and completed questionnaires about their involvement in and attitudes toward child-rearing and self-esteem. Mother-child interactions were observed in a play situation. Fathers reporting greater engagement in child caretaking activities described their children as more securely attached. Significant concordance between parents' AQS was obtained; however, this concordance was not due to generalization of interaction patterns across parents. That is, observed maternal sensitivity predicted maternal but not paternal security scores from the AQS.
- Subjects
FATHER-infant relationship; MOTHER-infant relationship; PARENT-infant relationships; ATTACHMENT behavior; CHILD rearing
- Publication
Fathering: A Journal of Theory, Research & Practice about Men as Fathers, 2004, Vol 2, Issue 2, p191
- ISSN
1537-6680
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.3149/fth.0202.191