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Attachment in Childcare Centers: Is it Related to Toddlers’ Emotion Regulation and Attentive Behavior?

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  • Susanna Pallini

    (University of Rome Tre)

  • Roberto Baiocco

    (Sapienza University of Rome)

  • Emma Baumgartner

    (Sapienza University of Rome)

  • Maria Teresa Bellucci

    (Sapienza University of Rome)

  • Fiorenzo Laghi

    (Sapienza University of Rome
    Faculty of Medicine and Psychology)

Abstract

The aim of this study was to develop a multiple-level-of-analysis model on toddlers’ attachment security toward childcare caregivers and toddlers’ attentive behavior and emotion regulation, to determine how attachment, emotion regulation and attention were related. One hundred-forty eight toddlers and their childcare caregivers were examined. Children’s ages ranged from 24 to 36 months (M = 33.82; SD = 5.33). Toddlers’ attentive behaviors in childcare centers were rated by observers using the Toddler Attention Questionnaire. Toddlers’ Attachment behavior and emotion regulation were rated by childcare caregivers using the Attachment Q-Sort and the Emotion Regulation Questionnaire. Results of structural equation modeling indicated a good overall fit for the model. Toddlers’ attachment to childcare caregivers had a direct effect on emotion regulation, negative lability, and attentive behavior, but not on attentive lability, and had a mediated effect, via emotion regulation, on attentive flexibility.

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  • Susanna Pallini & Roberto Baiocco & Emma Baumgartner & Maria Teresa Bellucci & Fiorenzo Laghi, 2017. "Attachment in Childcare Centers: Is it Related to Toddlers’ Emotion Regulation and Attentive Behavior?," Child Indicators Research, Springer;The International Society of Child Indicators (ISCI), vol. 10(1), pages 205-220, March.
    • Handle: RePEc:spr:chinre:v:10:y:2017:i:1:d:10.1007_s12187-016-9371-5
    DOI: 10.1007/s12187-016-9371-5
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