Whether or not close emotional relationships with parents and peers serve similar functions
for adolescent adjustment is an issue of increasing interest. The present study was designed …

The goal of this study was to examine both the direct and indirect relations of parent and peer
attachment with self-esteem and to examine the potential mediating roles of empathy and …

This study was designed to elucidate the association between attachment and emotional
understanding in preschool children. Forty children between the ages of 2.5 and 6 years and …

The separate literatures on parental discipline, maternal discourse about emotion, and
autobiographical memory support the idea that parent–child discourse in the context of a …

… The methods in this study are similar to those used by Laible and Thompson (2000), which
also examined the content of parent-child discourse about the child's past behavior and early …

Sixty–three mother–toddler dyads took part in a 6–month prospective study that examined
how differences in the frequency and nature of early mother–toddler conflict related to …

The current study examined the influence of multiple factors on individual differences in
empathy; namely, attachment, negative emotionality, and emotion regulation. A total of 63 …

The goal of this study was to examine how the parenting dimensions of both mothers and
fathers independently and together predict adolescent outcomes in three domains: sympathy, …

The primary goal of the present analysis was todetermine whether the commonly observed
genderdifference in physical aggression could be accounted forby gender differences in …

The current study examined the direction of the association between children’s attachment
security and empathic responding. At 42 and 48 months of age, 69 children’s empathic …