Advances in Child–Parent Attachment and Children's Peer Relations
A special issue of Children (ISSN 2227-9067). This special issue belongs to the section "Global Pediatric Health".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 15 August 2025 | Viewed by 134
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Interests: developmental psychopathology; attachment and moral development in preschool and school years; post-traumatic disorders
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Attachment theory highlights the importance for children’s socio-emotional development of the provision of a safe haven by their caregivers.
In the process of child development, internal working models guide children in the construction of their relational world with their past experiences as the base. These models, stemming from the quality of early attachment relationships, are frameworks or internal maps in which the relationship with other significant individuals is constructed and represented. Therefore, a relationship between parental attachment and the quality of peer relationships during infancy and adolescence is both theoretically evident and long stated in research, since an individual’s security and trust toward others in later life stages are molded by attachment regarding the emotional availability of caregivers.
Developmental psychology and psychopathology inquire about which domains of later behavior these expectations and beliefs about these self and others should predict.
Thus, the main objective of contributions to this Special Issue will be to shed light on (1) the characteristics and determinants of child’s parent-attachment and peer relations, and the (2) effects of child’s parent-attachment and peer relations on normative and psychopathological development, as well as physical and mental health.
Original scientific articles illustrating and discussing theoretical, methodological and empirical data on these topics are welcome.
Dr. Giampaolo Nicolais
Dr. Valeria Carola
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- peers
- children
- parenting
- attachment theory
- attachment style
- developmental psychology
- adolescents
- internal working models
- mother
- father
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