Early Childhood: A Meta-Analysis Paper

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Paper 1 The three articles “Attachment and internalizing behavior in early childhood: A meta-analysis”, “Early mother–child attachment and behavior problems in middle childhood: the role of the subsequent caregiving environment” and “The Relation Between Dimensions of Attachment and Internalizing or Externalizing Problems During Adolescence” might be similar when it comes to the title, but very three different articles. Although all three discuss the effect of attachment on a child, they differ in their argument and one is presented better that the other two articles. In this paper I am going to talk about why I chose one of these articles for my Analysis paper and the reason for doing so.
In the article “Early mother–child attachment and behavior problems in middle childhood: the role of the subsequent caregiving environment” confuses the reader as to what the arguments are. The researchers jumped from one topic to another, so it was really hard to figure out the problem statements and the purpose of this research. The hypothesis was …show more content…

Also, to resolve two fundamental questions regarding this issue: How strongly is insecure attachment associated with internalizing behaviors? and what factors moderate the magnitude of this association? The researchers submitted three hypotheses. The first hypothesis was that insecure attachment is more strongly associated with externalizing problems in boys than girls. The second hypothesis was that insecure attachment and behavior problems are strong in samples with known risks than samples with low risk. And the third hypothesis was that attachments are more common in samples with psychiatrically diagnosed parents than in samples with nonclinical parents. (Madigan and

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