The Uniqueness of the Child–Father Attachment Relationship: Fathers’ Sensitive and Challenging Play as a Pivotal Variable in a 16‐year Longitudinal Study

By K. Grossmann, K. Grossmann, E. Fremmer-Bombik, H. Kindler, H. Scheuerer-Englisch, Andreas Zimmermann. 2002

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Subfields: Clinical Psychology, Demography, Social Psychology

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The Triple P-Positive Parenting Program: a systematic review and meta-analysis of a multi-level system of parenting support. (2014, background): “Moreover, it has been established that thein ﬂ uenceof fa-thers on child development is separate to that of mothers (Grossman et al., 2002).”
Fathering in Australia Among Couple Families with Young Children (2011, positive): “During children’s play, mothers and fathers tend to interact with and respond to children in different ways, such that each parent uniquely contributes to children’s development (Grossmann et al. 2002; Kazura 2000; Laflamme, Pomerleau & Malcuit 2002; Roggman et al. 2004; Tamis‐LeMonda 2004).”
The Evolution of Fathering Research in the 21st Century: Persistent Challenges, New Directions (2020, background): “Using longitudinal data that followed children from infancy through adolescence, Grossmann et al. (2002) demonstrated the important role of fathers’ sensitive and challenging play in children’s attachment relationships with their fathers.”
ATTACHMENT THEORY AND RESEARCH: OVERVIEW WITH SUGGESTED APPLICATIONS TO CHILD CUSTODY (2011, background): “Following an initial emphasis upon the father’s special role in fostering security through “challenging play” (Grossmann et al., 2002), however, Grossmann, Grossmann, Kindler & Zimmermann (2008) have more recently emphasized that—while father’s role may often differ—either or both parents can…”
The Relationship Between Father Involvement in Family Leisure and Family Functioning: The Importance of Daily Family Leisure (2012, background): “Although there has been a strong focus of past research on father involvement in family work to various child outcomes and a limited focus on fathers’ play interactions related to child outcomes (Grossman et al, 2002 ; Pettit et al, 1998 ; Roggman et al, 2004 ), scholars have not examined father ”
Theorizing the Father-Child Relationship: Mechanisms and Developmental Outcomes (2004, methodology): “dren at age 16 as evaluated using the AAI [Grossmann et al., 2002].”
Father Involvement and Children's Early Learning: A Critical Review of Published Empirical Work from the Past 15 Years (2008, background): “Importantly, father-specific studies suggest that men may be involved with children in ways that are distinct from mothers (Hawkins & Palkovitz, 1999 ; Marsiglio, Day, & Lamb, 2000 ; Roggman, Fitzgerald, Bradley, & Raikes, 2002 ) and that fathering behaviors can contribute uniquely to children's ”
Rough and tumble play quality: theoretical foundations for a new measure of father–child interaction (2013, methodology): “A lack of negative parenting behaviours, such as hostility, rejection, or irritability (Grossmann et al., 2002), or the absence of child’s crying or anger (Paquette et al.”
Fathers in attachment theory and research: a review (2010, background): “perhaps as subsidiary figures in an attachment hierarchy), Grossmann et al. (2002)”
Early Attachment Network with Mother and Father: An Unsettled Issue (2018, background): “Finally, we combine the individual hypotheses into four mutually exclusive 1 Two important longitudinal studies that assessed infants’ attachment to mothers and fathers, conducted in England (12) and Germany (7), were reviewed but left out of the analyses because neither assessed the joint effects o”
Child–mother and child–father play interaction patterns with preschoolers (2013, background): “In another study, fathers’ play sensitivity during toddlerhood was longitudinally linked to attachment representation during adolescence (Grossmann et al., 2002).”
Broadening the Study of Infant Security of Attachment: Maternal Autonomy-Support in the Context of Infant Exploration. (2011, background): “Thus, it is proposed that in addition to maternal sensitivity to infants’ emotional needs for comfort and protection, maternal behaviours aimed at providing appropriate support and challenge to the child with respect to his or her exploratory activities are also important in shaping the development ”