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

Susanna Pallini, Roberto Baiocco, Emma Baumgartner, Maria Teresa Bellucci and Fiorenzo Laghi ()
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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

Child Indicators Research, 2017, vol. 10, issue 1, No 11, 205-220

Abstract: 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.

Keywords: Childcare caregivers; Toddlers; Attachment; Attention; Emotion regulation (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2017
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DOI: 10.1007/s12187-016-9371-5

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