Sentences with phrase «strong attachment to his mother»

A strong attachment to the mother during the early years may have a positive neurobehavioral effect.

Children with secure attachments demonstrated a strong attachment to the mother, while children with insecure attachments exhibited a variety of unusual and unhealthy reactions, including becoming angry with the mother upon her return.

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Each woman who becomes a mother wants to have a solid, strong, and healthy attachment with her baby.

>> Second, in response to Abbi, it seems to me that if there is a strong primary attachment, say with the mother, she would already be aware of the problem and taking steps to stop it.

Many parents worry that if mother was unavailable due to illness when she had her baby, or a child was adopted at age six, the window of opportunity for establishing a strong parent / child attachment will have been irretrievably lost, and their youngster will be incapable of forging deep attachments as an adult.

Research from the University of Minnesota has shown that children age 2 and up who lack secure attachments to their mothers have higher rushes of cortisol during even mildly stressful events, such as getting a vaccination shot, than do youngsters with strong parental bonds.

The development of strong attachments between mothers and children is essential to promote the long - term welfare of children.

However nothing — absolutely nothing — in any research by Lamb or anyone else has found that infants «need» more than one caregiver, that they do better with more than one caregiver, that they need a father any more than they need a grandmother or older brother, or that any of these secondary attachments, to the extent they do form, are of equal importance to an infant's having a strong and healthy bond with its primary caregiver mother.

Misrepresentation — «A study of 90 Oklahoma college students found that a strong attachment to fathers had a larger impact on young adult self esteem than attachment to their mothers.»

Cicirelli 1993 study of caregiving daughters revealed that attachment had a direct and positive relationship with the care that daughters were providing to their mothers: Stronger attachment bonds were associated with greater amounts of care, independent of mothers» level of functional dependency.

Two major reasons for this view are (1) the strong similarities between monkeys and humans in social behavior, endocrine function, brain structure, and degree and duration of mother - infant nurturance (Harlow and Zimmerman 1959; Kalin and Shelton 2003; Mendoza and Mason 1997), or, in the unique case of titi monkeys, the extent of biparental care (Hennessy 1997); and (2) the extent to which monkeys fulfill Ainsworth's criteria of attachment (Ainsworth 1972), namely, unequivocal distress upon complete separation from the attachment figure and alleviation of this distress (both behavioral and physiological) upon reunion / interaction with the attachment figure (Mendoza and Mason 1997).

In addition, the strong correlation between mother's own attachment schema's and their infants» attachment classification suggests a transmission of attachment style from mother to infant (van Ijzendoorn and Bakermans - Kranenburg 1996).

Although Bowlby may not dispute that young children form multiple attachments, he still contends that the attachment to the mother is unique in that it is the first to appear and remains the strongest of all.

From birth through infancy and childhood there are many steps that lead to a strong mother - infant attachment.

It explains why strong, consistent and healthy attachment figures are so important to children and why children that are neglected, abandoned, or separated from their mother may become frantic or cry uncontrollably until contact is made again.

Numerous studies support the strong correspondence between mothers» states of the mind with respect to attachment and their children's attachment (van IJzendoorn, 1995a).

Social support had a stronger effect on security of attachment in the context of irritable babies, such that when infants were temperamentally difficult, mothers who felt unsupported were more likely to have insecurely attached infants than mothers who felt supported.

Results suggested that with assimilation: (1) securely attached children fluctuated less in their daily attachment - related appraisals; (2) fluctuations were related to conflicts with mother; (3) this relation was stronger for less securely attached children.