@article{ref1,
title="Attachment and bookreading patterns: A study of mothers, fathers, and their toddlers",
journal="Early childhood research quarterly",
year="1997",
author="Bus, Adriana G. and Belsky, Jay and van Ijzendoom, Marinus H. and Crnic, Keith",
volume="12",
number="1",
pages="81-98",
abstract="This study, involving 138 families rearing firstborn sons, extends work on bookreading by relating quality of parent-child interactive exchange during bookreading to contemporaneous and antecedent assessments of infant-parent attachment security. One parent and the child were observed when children were 12, 13, 18, and 20 months. At the first and third visit, infant-mother attachment security was assessed, with infant-father attachment security being assessed at the second and fourth visit. Following the assessment of attachment security at 18 and 20 months, parent and child were videotaped in a bookreading session. At 18 and 20 months, children responded to the pictures in a book by pointing and labelling, and their parents tried to initiate these reactions by following predictable routines. In contrast to other mothers, insecure-avoidant mothers were more inclined to read the verbal text and less inclined to initiate interactions around the pictures. Insecure-avoidant children were less inclined to respond to the book and were more distracted. In insecure-resistant dyads, overcontrolling and overstimulating behavior by the mother appeared to covary with ambivalence on the part of the children. The results do not support a similar pattern for the fatherchild dyads. Implications for family literacy programs are discussed.<p />",
language="",
issn="0885-2006",
doi="10.1016/S0885-2006(97)90044-2",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/S0885-2006(97)90044-2"
}