Attachment relationships serve as contexts within which children develop emotional
capacities. This meta-analytic review assessed the strength of associations of parent–child …

Empathy involves understanding and “feeling with” others' emotions, and is an essential
capacity underlying sensitive care in humans and other species. Evidence suggests that the …

Remediating deficits and managing disabilities has been a central preoccupation for clinical
psychologists. Positive Psychology, in contrast, is concerned with the enhancement of …

Recent increase in children's screen activities has raised concerns that screen time may
replace face‐to‐face interaction, and hence impair children's development of emotion …

As societies become more aware of the importance of early socio-emotional skills for
children's later success, teachers report that they are ill-equipped to support and enhance …

This meta-analysis evaluated the psychometric properties of the Security Scale (SS; k= 57
studies), a measure specifically designed to assess attachment in middle childhood, using …

Although there is evidence parent–child attachment security is associated with trait-like
emotion indices, trait perspectives do not fully capture children's responses to context, an …

Understanding the emotional quality of the mother-child dyadic relationship and parent-child
feeding interactions may further clarify early developmental pathways to eating behaviours …

Attachment theory has provided a seminal orientation to understanding the early
development of parent-child relationships and their enduring influence. Is attachment theory …

A large body of longitudinal research provides compelling evidence for the critical role of
early attachment relationships in children's social, emotional, and cognitive development. It …