Childhood Attachment

Caldera, Y. M., & Hart, S. (2004). Exposure to child care, parenting style and attachment security. Infant and Child Development, 13(1), 21–33. doi:10.1002/icd.329 In this journal it includes information about the effects of the security of attachment from parents who have their infants/toddlers with them, to parents who have them in daycare. These sixty mothers went through an observation with their child to see how there interaction was during a structured task. This observation was done to see if infant/toddlers were at higher risk of having security attachment issues in a day care and parents not being involved, which proved not to be true. Although, more research needs to be done to find out further about the significance of child care …show more content…
This reported the lower and higher levels of toddler attachment. The section that explained why this study was done included toddlers that are at risk for behavior problems, and how maternal behavior and attachment security are different in boys and girls, so they examined them by the child’s sex. This information was useful because it explains the differences between boys and girls and how attachment is not the same for them. Toddlers with a negative response during the frustrating task may have frustration because of things that happen to them in their every day life that, they do not enjoy doing. I chose to read this because I really want to see how toddlers react to situations and why they do what they do. I love children and want to understand the differences between the way boys and girls react as either an infant/toddler, and this study helped with how their emotions are and that toddlers can already be at risk for behavior …show more content…
Infants that are highly irritable to ones that are less irritable can have an effect on their attachment issues. Toddlers were less experimental when they were highly irritable and that were insecurely attached. When infants were highly irritable compared to lower irritable infants, as toddlers they were found to be less sociable when they felt insecure attachment and more sociable when they felt secure attachment. As predicted when a newborn is highly irritable and has unsecure attachment it is hurtful to the toddlers’ exploration, then a newborn who is highly irritable and has secure attachment. I chose this reading because I wanted to know if high or low irritability as an infant effected how a toddler’s sociability would be. I found this study to have useful information for me and I enjoyed