Parenting Journal · Volume 2 · Issue 3 · Licensed source edition
What accounts for multifinality of the pathways from family ecological adversity to children’s future antisocial outcomes? Exploring early attachment relationships as a source of resilience in low- and high-risk samples
Originally published 2025-11-13 · Development and Psychopathology
Cambridge University Press (CUP) · DOI 10.1017/S0954579425100904 ↗
Editorial reading guide · Trust
Why might similar early adversity be followed by different developmental paths?
The authors examine attachment alongside environmental adversity in two cohorts, allowing comparison across distinct family settings.
Who was studied?
Families in two cohorts differing in ecological adversity, including infant-parent and toddler-mother dyads
Age / stage: Infancy and toddlerhood with later follow-up
Read with three questions
- Why might similar early adversity be followed by different developmental paths?
- What was measured at each observation, and what other influences might account for the link?
- Which features of the study population (families in two cohorts differing in ecological adversity, including infant-parent and toddler-mother dyads) would matter when applying the findings in another setting?
Keep the limits in view
The two cohorts differ in both developmental stage and ecological risk. A difference between cohorts may reflect those features as well as how attachment was measured.
The text below is the original article’s licensed repository edition. Its wording is not rewritten. Use the Paper Agent beside the text to locate evidence; open the source for figures, tables and complete context.
Opening the verified paper and agent…
Checking the article identity, license record, and saved source text.
Open the repository recordAttribution & reuse
Follow the original.
Original authorship, publication date, journal and DOI are preserved. This issue’s TRICK placement and reading questions are editorial additions, not claims made by the original authors.
Juyoung Kim; Haley M Herbert; Grazyna Kochanska (2025). What accounts for multifinality of the pathways from family ecological adversity to children’s future antisocial outcomes? Exploring early attachment relationships as a source of resilience in low- and high-risk samples Development and Psychopathology. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0954579425100904
Permissions checked against the saved article notice; repository publication notices screened 2026-11-04. This is not a new peer-review decision. The source authors and publishers are not represented as endorsing this issue.