Ecological Constraints for Intergenerational Transmission of Attachment

Intergenerational Transmission of Attachment: A Move to the Contextual Level

Intergenerational transmission of psychopathy.

The conclusions drawn by Auty et al – that the development and persistence of psychopathic personality characteristics is most likely down to both genetic and environmental factors – are well-judged, modest, and consistent with their results. Their report highlights a large and potentially important dataset, and the topic of intergenerational transmission of personality characteristics is under...

Intergenerational transmission of aggression in romantic relationships: the moderating role of attachment security.

This prospective study used longitudinal, multi-reporter data to examine the influence of parents' marital relationship functioning on subsequent adolescent romantic relationships. Consistent with Bryant and Conger's (2002) model for the Development of Early Adult Romantic Relationships (DEARR), we found that interactional styles, more specifically paternal aggression and satisfaction, exhibite...

The Intergenerational Transmission of Generosity.

This paper estimates the correlation between the generosity of parents and the generosity of their adult children using regression models of adult children's charitable giving. New charitable giving data are collected in the Panel Study of Income Dynamics and used to estimate the regression models. The regression models are estimated using a wide variety of techniques and specification tests, a...

Intergenerational Transmission of Reflective Functioning

The present study investigated whether, and to what extent, reflective functioning (RF) during preadolescence is associated with maternal attachment security and RF, and with the child's attachment security. Thirty-nine mother-preadolescent child dyads from a non-clinical population participated in the study. Maternal and child RF were assessed by applying the Reflective Functioning Scale to th...