Volume 5, Number 4, October–December 2005

EMPIRICAL ARTICLES

Attachment Quality in Very Low-Birthweight Premature Infants in Relation to Maternal Attachment Representations and Neurological Development
Karl Heinz Brisch, Doris Bechinger, Susanne Betzler, Hilde Heinemann, Horst Kächele, Frank Pohlandt, Gesine Schmücker, and Anna Buchheim

Maternal representations of attachment and infant quality of attachment do not correspond, but neurologically impaired preterm infants are more often insecurely than securely attached.

The Relation Between Mothers’ Reports of Family-of-Origin Expressiveness and Their Emotion-Related Parenting
Jason K. Baker and Keith A. Crnic

The reported expressiveness of a mother’s family of origin, in conjunction with child gender, is important to understanding mother-child emotion-related interactions.

Conflict Between Mothers and Adolescents in Single-Mother, Blended, and Two-Biological-Parent Families
Brett Laursen

Adolescents report more total disagreements and more angry disagreements with single mothers than with mothers in two-biological-parent families, but there are no household structure differences in disagreements with parents (mothers and fathers combined), indicating that levels of conflict with single mothers are elevated by approximately the same number of disagreements that arise with fathers in two-parent households

Children’s Reactions to Marital Conflict in Israel and in the United States
Haya Shamir, E. Mark Cummings, Patrick T. Davies, and Marcie C. Goeke-Morey

U.S. and Israeli children’s reactions to marital conflict are mostly similar, but Israeli children are less influenced by conflict resolution than U.S. children.

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