Daniel PaquetteUniversité de Montréal | UdeM · school of psychoeducation
Daniel Paquette
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This study examines the stability of child attachment to mothers and fathers separately, and to both parents as a network between the infancy and preschool periods using a sample of 143 biparental families and their children (73 boys) recruited from the general population. Attachment was assessed at 15 months with the Strange Situation Procedure (S...
To this day, parent-child intervention has been guided by attachment theory, addressing issues of sensitivity and parenting competence from the standpoint of the mother-child relationship. The absence of a theory-driven model of fathering hindered the development of specific interventions addressing the father-child relationship. Since 2004, the ac...
The aim of this contribution is to attempt to understand the adaptive functions of father-child rough-and-tumble play (RTP) in humans. We first present a synthesis of the known proximate and ultimate mechanisms of peer-peer RTP in mammals and compare human parent-child RTP with peer-peer RTP. Next, we examine the possible biological adaptive functi...
Most studies interested in understanding the role of parents in children’s school adjustment have focused on mothers. Given the importance of father-child play during the preschool period, this study explores the possible links of father-child rough-and-tumble play and also father’s involvement in child schooling with two dimensions of school adjus...
To date, few researchers have focused on the role that the parent–child relationship can play in children’s risk-taking, and none has done so while taking into account the father-child relationship. This paper examines two types of parent–child relationships, the attachment relationship and the activation relationship, both of which are theoretical...
The correlates of cognitive sex differences are yet to be fully understood. Many biological and psychosocial factors modulate these cognitive abilities leading to mixed results in the scientific literature. The current study aims to explore the different parameters potentially influencing cognitive abilities acting in synergy. Sex and gender correl...
Le présent article est une critique du livre de Cyrille Barrette intitulé La vraie nature de la bête humaine , aux Éditions MultiMondes. Cet éthologue présente sa conception d’une double nature chez notre espèce, une nature animale et une nature proprement humaine, reposant sur l’idée que l’humain se serait complètement libéré de l’emprise de la sé...
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Introduction
La cooccurrence de diagnostics (dx) en santé mentale réfère à la présence de deux ou plusieurs dx chez un même enfant et peut s’avérer synonyme d’une symptomatologie complexe et difficile à traiter.
But de l’étude
Afin d’identifier des leviers d’intervention dans le traitement de ces enfants, la présente étude examine si des f...
The activation relationship refers to the emotional bond a child develops with a parent that helps ensure the regulation of risk-taking during child exploration of the surrounding environment. As a complement to Bowlby’s attachment theory, activation relationship theory provides a greater understanding of the impact of fathering on child developmen...
Two parenting capacity assessment (PCA) protocols, with a short parent-child intervention embedded in each protocol, evaluated the potential for enhanced parenting to orient child placement decision. Parents ( n = 69), with substantiated reports of maltreatment by child protective services, and their children (0–6) were randomly assigned to one of...
Parent and Peer Attachment in Early Adolescents with and without Disruptive Behavior Disorder
Several studies have shown associations between attachment insecurity and externalizing behavioral problems from childhood to adolescence (Fearon, Bakermans-Kranenburg, van IJzendoorn, Lapsley & Roisman, 2010, Madigan, Brumariu, Villani, Atkinson & Lyons-R...
ABSTRACT: This study aimed to investigate the internal structure and reliability indices of the Questionnaire d’Engagement Paternel (QEP). It describes the process of cross-cultural adaptation and results of the evaluation of the psychometric proprieties of the instrument. The sample consisted of 300 participants (150 mothers and 150 fathers), who...
Diverses disciplines se sont intéressées à l’anorexie mentale au cours des dernières décennies et ont proposé différents modèles pour l’expliquer. Celui qui domine actuellement, le modèle biopsychosocial, permet de comprendre comment ce problème se met en place au niveau proximal. Toutefois, une question perdure : existe-t-il une fonction biologiqu...
The objective of this study was to analyse the relations between the function of openness to the world, family functioning and child behaviour. In order to do that, a quantitative research was conducted with 171 biparental families from the South Region of Brazil, with children from four to six years of age. Two association hypotheses were formulat...
The aim of this study was to advance our understanding of the development of aggression in boys and girls by testing a model combining insights from both evolutionary theory and developmental psychology. A sample of 744 children (348 girls) between six and 13 years old was recruited in schools with high deprivation indices. Half of the sample (N =...
The culture and social contexts are important in the investigation of aspects related to human development. The objective was to present theoretical and methodological considerations, based on our experience related to a research carried out by Brazilian and Canadian researchers, on the procedures adopted in the scientific literature involving the...
The culture and social contexts are important in the investigation of aspects related to human development. The objective was to present theoretical and methodological considerations, based on our experience related to a research carried out by Brazilian and Canadian researchers, on the procedures adopted in the scientific literature involving the...
Background:
Individuals with sensory regulation disorders present with many difficulties in terms of managing emotions, behavior, and motor control. Children with such difficulties are often referred to psychiatric clinics for assessment of their behavioral and emotional problems. Few studies have investigated the role of environmental factors on...
Les troubles psy expliqués par la théorie de l’évolution explore le cerveau humain et confronte les pathologies mentales modernes prépondérantes aux mécanismes de l'évolution: pourquoi l'homme est-il sujet à l'anxiété, et quelle serait sa fonction adaptative ? Qu'en est-il du stress, de la dépression post-partum, de la dépression majeure, des troub...
This 49-family study is the first to explore the father-child relationship in a clinical population of preschoolers (at a tertiary care child psychiatry clinic) and to examine its relation to child anxiety and attachment to the mother. A moderation model of the father-child activation relationship on the relation between attachment to the mother an...
This chapter introduces the reader to the key evolutionary theories that have been put forward to help us understand not only criminal behavior, but analogous antisocial behaviors as well, from a developmental perspective. The evolutionary perspective states that (a) individuals are in competition with one another for survival and reproduction, and...
Unintentional injury is an important cause of infant and child hospitalisation and parents play a key role in reducing children’s risk-taking behaviour. Studies show that maternal and paternal parenting and supervision of children differ, but there is little research showing how fathers’ parenting may influence children’s tendency to engage in risk...
The aim of the current study was to examine predictors of the mother-infant attachment relationship in adolescent mother-infant dyads. Seven factors were investigated: Maternal adult attachment style, childhood maltreatment history, depression, parenting stress and sensitivity; infant temperament difficulty; and social support. The sample consisted...
The activation relationship theory, primarily focused on parental stimulation of risk-taking along with parental control during exploration, predicts that boys will be activated more than girls by their fathers. This theory may explain why fathers engage in rough-and-tumble play (RTP) with children more frequently than mothers, especially with boys...
The broad aim of this study on father–child attachment was to verify whether the Risky Situation (RS) procedure is a more valid means than the Strange Situation (SS) procedure of predicting children's socio-emotional development, and to evaluate the moderator effect of day-to-day involvement on attachment and activation. Participants were 53 father...
The activation relationship is a new theorisation of father–child attachment that places the emphasis on exploration and openness to the world. This study, which was the first to employ the Preschool Risky Situation and which used a convenience sample of 51 father–child dyads, confirmed the hypothesis of an association between the activation relati...
The activation relationship theory serves as a complement to Bowlby’s attachment theory to better understand the impact of fathering on child development, focusing primarily on parental stimulation of risk taking and control during children’s exploration. The first aim of this study was to confirm that the activation relationship as assessed with t...
This paper presents the validation of Preschool Competition Questionnaire (PCQ). The PCQ was completed by the childcare teachers of 780 French-speaking children between the ages of 36 and 71 months. The results of exploratory factor analysis suggest three dimensions involving neither physical nor relational aggression: other-referenced competition,...
This chapter examines how humans and other mammals develop the competence necessary to adapt to the complexities of group living. The authors argue that rough-andtumble (R&T) play promotes the development of social competence, social cognition, and self-regulation by providing young mammals with embodied practice in activities that involve both coo...
Cet article critique un livre récemment écrit dont l’objectif est de défendre l’égalité des sexes en niant l’existence de différences entre les femmes et les hommes. La première partie de l’article affirme que l’égalité des sexes est une valeur sociale qui ne se réduit pas au fait que les femmes et les hommes se distinguent à certains égards. Les c...
Cet article critique un livre récemment écrit dont l’objectif est de défendre l’égalité des sexes en niant l’existence de différences entre les femmes et les hommes. La première partie de l’article affirme que l’égalité des sexes est une valeur sociale qui ne se réduit pas au fait que les femmes et les hommes se distinguent à certains égards. Les c...
According to scientific research, adolescent mothers, because of their living conditions, are at greater risk of neglecting or abusing their children who, as victims, are more at risk of experiencing developmental problems. Previous studies have often presented adolescent mothers as being unresponsive towards their children. However, our results sh...
This study examines socially indiscriminate attachment (SIA) behaviour among infants of adolescent mothers. A review of the research conducted on adolescent mothers reveals that this population is characterised by several risk factors usually associated with SIA. However, to date, no study has yet examined SIA among infants of adolescent mothers, a...
Cet article a pour but de présenter le processus d’identification du défi adaptatif (PIDA), une procédure d’observation essentielle en évaluation psychoéducative. Il s’agit de circonscrire le défi adaptatif d’une personne dans un contexte précis : à quoi doit-elle faire face, que doit-elle apprendre pour répondre à ses besoins compte tenu des condi...
En collaboration avec le Centre-Jeunesse de Montréal-Institut Universitaire, nous réalisons un projet de recherche clinique visant à évaluer un nouveau protocole d’évaluation spécialisée des capacités parentales pour des enfants et des parents signalés pour maltraitance. L’aspect novateur de ce projet est qu’il intègre à même le protocole d’évaluat...
prenatal tobacco exposure (PTE) is an important public health concern for the offspring of teen mothers. We examined whether PTE is associated with baseline cortisol levels in four-month-old infants of teenage mothers.
we assessed salivary cortisol levels of 212 infants. PTE was measured by using self-reports of cigarette smoking during pregnancy....
Initial validation data are presented for the Risky Situation (RS), a 20‐minute observational procedure designed to assess the father–child activation relationship with children aged 12–18 months. The coding grid, which is simple and easy to use, allows parent–child dyads to be classified into three categories and provides an activation score. By h...
Cet article a pour objectif de présenter une réflexion critique sur la notion de violence du point de vue de l’éthologie et de la psychologie évolutionniste. Les auteurs définissent la violence comme étant un jugement de valeur (un abus de pouvoir) fait sur une agression définie opérationnellement par tout comportement orienté (physique, gestuel, v...
Rough-and-tumble play (RTP) is a common form of play between fathers and children. It has been suggested that RTP can contribute to the development of selfregulation. This study addressed the hypothesis that the frequency of father-child RTP is related to the frequency of physically aggressive behavior in early childhood. This relationship was expe...
Résumé
L’objectif de l’étude était de comprendre pourquoi les pères sont absents des services de stimulation précoce, alors qu’on reconnaît leurs contributions spécifiques au développement de l’enfant. Des groupes de discussion avec des pères et des intervenants ont été organisés au Québec. L’analyse qualitative des verbatim révèle que les pères ne...
This is a follow-up to a study demonstrating that rough-and-tumble play was related to physical aggression in the preschool
years. Fathers reported on the frequency of father-child rough-and-tumble play interactions, and the degree to which fathers
were dominant in the play dyad was observed and coded from play interactions. In this follow-up study...
Jusqu’à maintenant l’attachement père-enfant et l’engagement paternel sont demeurés deux domaines d’études séparés l’un de l’autre. Grâce aux recherches sur l’attachement au père on sait maintenant que tout comme la mère il est une figure importante pour l’enfant. Toutefois on connait moins ce qui prédit la qualité de l’attachement père-enfant. Les...
Adolescent pregnancy can be associated with major depression (MD) and conduct disorder (CD). Some infants of adolescent mothers are prenatally exposed to these factors, which may result in heightened risk for perturbations of their stress systems. Between 2 and 4 months, a normal shift occurs in the adrenocortical system in which we observe a marke...
To understand the transmission mechanisms of psychosocial difficulties prompted by teenage mother and baby interactions. The hypothesis is that the quality of the mother-child exchanges relies on linked with the characteristics of the mother, such as being abused and poor preparation for motherhood, as well as the characteristics of the child.
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In this article, the authors reflect on co-occurrence of different types of maltreatment that adolescent mothers have suffered during their childhood in order to better understand intergenerational transmission of maltreatment. They underline that studies on maltreatment that adults or adolescents have been subjected to during their childhood gener...
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Dans cet article, les auteurs s’interrogent sur la cooccurrence des différentes formes de maltraitance subie par les mères adolescentes durant leur enfance, dans le but de mieux comprendre la transmission intergénérationnelle de la maltraitance. Ils soulignent que les études sur la maltraitance subie par des adultes ou des adolescents durant...
Cet article présente comment, au cours des dix dernières années, mes travaux de recherche sur l’agression physique et les problèmes extériorisés chez les enfants de moins de six ans ont contribué au domaine de l’attachement. Le suivi longitudinal d’une cohorte d’enfants de mères adolescentes a montré que l’attachement mère-enfant est associé aux co...
The study investigated histories of child maltreatment and psychiatric disorder in a high-risk sample of pregnant adolescents.
Cross-sectional data were obtained for 252 pregnant adolescents from high school, hospital, and group home settings in Montreal (Canada). Adolescents completed a child maltreatment questionnaire and a psychiatric interview...
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À partir d’une problématisation biosociale de la paternité, l’auteur propose l’hypothèse que les pères, dans les sociétés où la monogamie est la norme, subissent davantage de pressions sociales pour s’impliquer directement auprès des enfants, et ce à un âge de plus en plus précoce, au fur et à mesure que leur société se complexifie. La fonct...
The aim of this article is to propose a theorization of the father‐child relationship based on our current understanding of attachment, interactions between fathers and their young children, and human‐specific adaptations. The comparison of mother‐child and father‐child interactions suggests that fathers play a particula...
Upon reading the respective comments of Roggman and Tamis‐LeMonda regarding my article, I realized that I had not been clear enough with respect to the use of the dichotomic approach adopted. My objective in employing ‘extreme contrasts’ was to develop relatively distinct notions in order to stimulate the verification of new research hypothe...
The article offers a critical review of the literature on the determinants of adolescent mothers' control behaviours. The reviewed studies, published from 1980 to 2001, and presented in the first section of the article reveal that adolescent mothers' control behaviours are linked to and at times can be predicted by a set of determinants belonging t...
The article offers a critical review of the literature on the determinants of adolescent mothers' control behaviours. The reviewed studies, published from 1980 to 2001, and presented in the first section of the article reveal that adolescent mothers' control behaviours are linked to and at times can be predicted by a set of determinants belonging t...
To examine the association between cortisol levels and conduct disorder (CD) in adolescent mothers. Past research has shown that low levels of cortisol were associated with CD, particularly with its aggressive symptoms. The authors tested the hypothesis that adolescent mothers with CD would show lower levels of salivary cortisol compared to mothers...
Given the central role that parental sensitivity may potentially play in the intergenerational transmission of social maladjustment, intervention regarding the parental sensitivity of mothers with social adaptation difficulties is vital. Our aim was to compare the parental sensitivity of 33 adolescent mothers in group homes with that of a school gr...
Here I propose to use the father-child « activation relationship » to explain the emotional bond of the child to his father. Contrary to the mother-child attachment relationship which permits the child to be calmed, the father-child activation relationship answers the child's need to be stimulated, to surpass himself in a context in which the child...
This study demonstrates that the five maltreatment scales in the long and short versions of the CTQ are valid and usable with French-speaking populations. It also shows emotional neglect to be the most common form of maltreatment in its general population sample, and physical neglect to be the least common. Physical, emotional and sexual abuse prev...
Conduct disorder (CD) is among the most common of psychiatric diagnoses in adolescent girls. Common antisocial behaviors in girls with CD include lying, truancy, running away from home, and stealing without confrontation. Relative to other girls, girls with CD also report more violent behaviors but are less violent than boys with CD. Girls with con...
Father-child relationship and openness to the world
Here I propose to use the father-child “ activation relationship ” to explain the emotional bond of the child to his father. Contrary to the mother-child attachment relationship which permits the child to be calmed, the father-child activation relationship answers the child’s need to be stimulated...
Three samples of francophone subjects from Quebec (Canada) are used to establish the prevalence of parent-child RTP according to different personal, social and family variables, and to verify if children who engage in more RTP with their father exhibit less physical aggression towards other children and are more competitive without resorting to agg...
La première partie de cette étude a montré que les dimensions présumées du QSA s'avèrent peu valides avec un échantillon général d'individus âgés entre 14 ans et 44 ans. L'analyse factorielle exploratoire du QSA auprès de 356 sujets a plutôt mis en évidence deux facteurs: Évitement des relations sociales et Préoccupation d'être aimé. La seconde par...
L’incidence de la securite de l’attachement sur l’adaptation sociale de l’enfant est generalement etudiee sous l’angle de la manifestation de l’un ou l’autre des principaux troubles socio-affectifs, soit les troubles interiorises ou exteriorises. Cette etude consiste plutot a comparer la securite de l’attachement des enfants qui manifestent une com...
Our goal was to identify different types of parenting based on self-report measures of fathers' involvement and parental attitudes. The present investigation studied 468 two-parent, French Canadian families with at least one child between 0 and 6 years of age, living in a disadvantaged environment. The study, conducted on a sample of fathers, revea...
Our goal was to identify different types of parenting based on self‐report measures of fathers' involvement and parental attitudes. The present investigation studied 468 two‐parent, French Canadian families with at least one child between 0 and 6 years of age, living in a disadvantaged environment. The study, conducted on a sample of fathers, revea...
Dans le présent article nous étudions les mécanismes de transmission des difficultés socioaffectives entre les systèmes conjugal et parental sous l'effet d'une part de stress contextuels comme la pauvreté des familles et, d'autre part, des caractéristiques personnelles des membres de ces familles comme le sexe et l'âge de l'enfant. Un échantillon d...
The associations among testosterone, physical development, social dominance, and antisocial behaviour during early adolescence were assessed in a sample of boys followed from 6 to 13 years. Saliva testosterone level was positively correlated with height, and uncorrelated with measures of fatness, including the body mass index. Physical aggression a...
The associations among testosterone, physical development, social dominance, and antisocial behaviour during early adolescence were assessed in a sample of boys followed from 6 to 13 years. Saliva testosterone level was positively correlated with height, and uncorrelated with measures of fatness, including the body mass index. Physical aggression a...
Studied correlations between social behaviors in nursery school and social behaviors in novel situations to test genetic vs environmental theories of social withdrawal in early childhood. Ss were 30 preschool children (mean age 46 mo) of average social competence, 30 socially competent preschool children (mean age 47 mo), 30 aggressive-irritable pr...
Most young non-human primates spend a great deal of time playing alone or with conspecifics. Despite numerous studies on social play, its adaptive functions remain unclear. A longitudinal study comparing social interactions preceding and following rank reversals among four captive adolescent chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes schweinfurtii) suggests that...
Wild chimpanzees commonly use sticks to fish for termites, ants or honey. This ability seems to be socially transmitted to juveniles by their mothers across generations. In a natural environment, the limited visibility of this behavior with regards to the extent of stick's insertion and about the success or failure in fishing hinders the study of t...
Intelligent resource exchange usually has been thought of as a strictly human phenomenon. Some searchers demonstrated experimentally that chimpanzees have the necessary cognitive capacities to exchange food with humans. This short article presents the first example of an immediate and spontaneous exchange of objects between chimpanzees. This exchan...
Intelligent resource exchange usually has been thought of as a strictly human phenomenon. Some searchers demonstrated experimentally
that chimpanzees have the necessary cognitive capacities to exchange food with humans. This short article presents the first
example of an immediate and spontaneous exchange of objects between chimpanzees. This exchan...
Wild chimpanzees commonly use sticks to fish for termites, ants or honey. This ability seems to be socially transmitted to juveniles by their mothers across generations. In a natural environment, the limited visibility of this behavior with regards to the extent of stick's insertion and about the success or failure in fishing hinders the study of t...
