In search of the absent father--meta-analyses of infant-father attachment: a rejoinder to our discussants.
In our meta-analysis on sensitivity and attachment, studies on the role of the father in the development of infant attachment were excluded. In this rejoinder to our discussants, we present new meta-analytic evidence on the association between paternal sensitivity and infant-father attachment (combined effect size r[544] = .13; k = 8 studies; N = 546 families), and on the association between infant-mother and infant-father attachment (overall correlation phi = .17; k = 14 studies; N = 950). Combining the findings from several earlier meta-analyses, we present a data-based model of attachment within the family system.
van IJzendoorn
M H
MH
Center for Child and Family Studies, Leiden University, The Netherlands. vanijzen@rulfsw.leidenuniv.nl
De Wolff
M S
MS
D000328:Adult; D015987:Effect Modifier, Epidemiologic; D005219:Father-Child Relations; D005220:Fathers / Q000523:psychology*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008960:Models, Psychological; D015999:Multivariate Analysis; D009769:Object Attachment; D002666:Psychology, Child; D012044:Regression Analysis