Publications

PEER REVIEWED PUBLICATIONS

Opie, J. E., Waters, E., Duschinsky, R., Hammarlund, M., Madigan, S., Foster, S., Forslund, T., Thompson, R., Steele, H., Steele, M., Roisman, G. I., Groh, A. M., Fonagy, P., Dagan, O., ... & Bakermans-Kranenburg, M. (in press). Practitioner review: Clinical insights from attachment theory and research for professionals working with young children and their families. Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry. 10.1111/jcpp.70126

Lamb, P., Dagan, O., Dugan, K. A., & Roisman, G. I. (2026). Childhood interpersonal antecedents of adult romantic relationship adjustment: Prospective evidence from the NICHD Study of Early Child Care and Youth Development. Journal of Family Psychology, 40(1), 99–108. https://doi.org/10.1037/fam0001398

Foster, S. L., Schofield, G. L., Geoghegan, L., Hood, R., Sagi-Schwartz, A., Bakkum, L., Hutchinson, D., Balk, W., Devine, R., Steele, M., Steele, H., Duncan, R., Guthrie, J., Mannes, J., Talia, A., Pickerden, J. E., Senior, L., Bailey, L., Stanton, C., Dagan, O., … Duschinsky, R (2025). Attachment theory and research: What should be on the core curriculum for children and families social workers? Social Work Education. https://doi.org/10.1080/02615479.2025.2531859

Dagan, O., Nivison, M. D., Booth-LaForce, C., Bleil, M. E., Roisman, G. I., & Waters, T. E. A. (2025). Longitudinal associations between schematic attachment representations in late adolescence and depression in adulthood in a normative and a higher-risk cohorts. Emerging Adulthood, 13(1), 91-104. https://doi.org/10.1177/21676968241286021

Bakermans-Kranenburg, M. J., Dagan, O., Cárcamo, R. A., & van IJzendoorn, M. H. (2024). Celebrating more than 26,000 adult attachment interviews: mapping the main adult attachment classifications on personal, social, and clinical status. Attachment & Human Development, 27(2), 191–228. https://doi.org/10.1080/14616734.2024.2422045

Dagan, O., Nivison, M. D., Bleil, M. E., Booth-LaForce, C., Waters, T. E. A., & Roisman, G. I. (2024). Longitudinal Associations Between Attachment Representations Coded in the Adult Attachment Interview in Late Adolescence and Perceptions of Romantic Relationship Adjustment in Adulthood. Infant and Child Development, 33(4), e2512. https://doi.org/10.1002/icd.2512

Dagan, O., Schuengel, C., Verhage, M. L., Madigan, S., Roisman, G. I., Van IJzendoorn, M. H., Bakermans-Kranenburg, M., Duschinsky, R., ... & The Collaboration on Attachment to Multiple Parents and Outcomes Synthesis (2024). Attachment Relationship Quality With Mothers and Fathers and Child Temperament: An Individual Participant Data Meta-Analysis. Developmental Psychology, 60(11), 2144–2156. https://doi.org/10.1037/dev0001677 [NEWS ARTICLE @THE CONVERSATION]

Dagan, O., Schuengel, C., Verhage, M. L., Madigan, S., Duschinsky, R., Roisman, G. I., ... & The Collaboration on Attachment to Multiple Parents and Outcomes Synthesis (2024). Configurations of mother-child and father-child attachment as predictors of child language competence: An individual participant data (IPD) meta-analysis. Child Development, 95, 50–69. https://doi.org/10.1111/cdev.13998 [NEWS ARTICLE @THE CONVERSATION]

Nivison, M. D., Dagan, O., Booth-LaForce, C., Roisman, G. I., & Waters, T. (2024). Caregiving Antecedents of Secure Base Script Knowledge Inferred from the Adult Attachment Interview: A Comparative, Pre-Registered Analysis. Infant and Child Development. Infant and Child Development, 33(2), e2410. https://doi.org/10.1002/icd.2410

Dagan, O., Schuengel, C., Verhage, M., van IJzendoorn, M. H., Sagi-Schwartz, A., Madigan, S., … the Collaboration on Attachment to Multiple Parents and Outcomes Synthesis (2022). Configurations of mother-child and father-child attachment as predictors of internalizing and externalizing behavioral problems: An individual participant data (IPD) meta-analysis. New Directions for Child and Adolescent Development, 2021(180), 67–94. https://doi.org/10.1002/cad.20450 [NEWS ARTICLE @THE CONVERSATION]

Dagan, O., Sagi-Schwartz, A. and van IJzendoorn, M.H. (2021). Attachment networks to multiple caregivers: An introduction to a special issue. New Directions for Child and Adolescent Development, 2021(180), 5-7. https://doi.org/10.1002/cad.20453 [FULL SPECIAL ISSUE]

Dagan, O., & Sagi-Schwartz, A. (2021). Early attachment network to multiple caregivers: History, assessment models, and future research recommendations. New Directions for Child and Adolescent Development, 2021(180), 9–19. https://doi.org/10.1002/cad.20446 [VIDEO: A SHORT PRIMER]

Dagan, O., Groh, A. M., Madigan, S., & Bernard, K. (2021). A lifespan development theory of insecure attachment and internalizing symptoms: Integrating meta-analytic evidence via a testable evolutionary mis/match hypothesis. Brain Sciences, 11(9), 1226. https://doi.org/10.3390/brainsci11091226 [VIDEO]

Dagan, O., & Bernard, K. (2021). It takes a village: A call for engaging attachment with adjunct disciplines to clarify “in-house” clinical conundrums. Attachment & Human Development, 23(4), 455-467. https://doi.org/10.1080/14616734.2021.1918455

Dagan, O., Buisman, R. S. M., Nivison, M. D., Waters, T. E. A., ... & Roisman, G. I. (2021). Does secure base script knowledge mediate associations between observed parental caregiving during childhood and adult romantic relationship quality and health? Attachment & Human Development, 23(5), 643–664. https://doi.org/10.1080/14616734.2020.1836858 [SHORT VIDEO]

Waters, T. E. A., Facompré, C., Dagan, O., Martin, J., Johnson, W. F., Young, E. S., Shankman, J., Lee, Y., Simpson, J. A., & Roisman, G. I. (2020). Convergent validity and stability of secure base script knowledge from late adolescence to midlife. Attachment & Human Development, 23(5), 740-760. https://doi.org/10.1080/14616734.2020.1832548

Dagan, O., Facompré, C. R., Nivison, M. D., Roisman, G. I., & Bernard, K. (2020). Preoccupied and dismissing attachment representations are differentially associated with anxiety in adolescence and adulthood: A meta-analysis. Clinical Psychological Science, 8(4), 614–640. https://doi.org/10.1177/2167702620917455

Dagan, O., Facompré, C. R., & Bernard, K. (2018). Adult attachment representations and depressive symptoms: A meta-analysis. Journal of Affective Disorders, 236, 274-290. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jad.2018.04.091

Dagan, O., Asok, A., Steele, H., Steele, M., & Bernard, K. (2018). Attachment security moderates the link between adverse childhood experiences and cellular aging. Development and Psychopathology, 30(4), 1211-1223. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0954579417001705

Dagan, O., & Sagi-Schwartz, A. (2018). Early attachment network to mother and father: An unsettled issue. Child Development Perspectives, 12(2), 115-121. https://psycnet.apa.org/doi/10.1111/cdep.12272

MANUSCRIPTS UNDER REVIEW

Dagan, O., Dugan, K. A., Waters, T. E. A., Kunkel, J. J., Nivison, M. D., Booth-LaForce, C., Bleil, M. E., & Roisman, G. I. Links between self-reported and narrative-based attachment representations in late adolescence and health in adulthood: A comparative, registered report.

Vergara-Barra, P., Rincón, P., Santelices, P., Bustos, C., García, F., Spencer, R., Wendland, J., Dagan, O., Silva J. (Artículo enviado). Explorando la dominancia relativa y asociaciones entre variables parentales y conducta externalizante en preescolares chilenos.

Opie, J. E., Waters, E., Duschinsky, R., Hammarlund, M., Madigan, S., Foster, S., Forslund, T., Thompson, R., Steele, H., Steele, M., Roisman, G. I., Groh, A. M., Fonagy, P., Dagan, O., Talia, A., Rossen, L., Sroufe, L. A., Tronick, E., Fearon, R. M. P., ... Bakermans-Kranenburg, M. Practitioner review: Clinical insights from attachment theory and research for professionals working with young children and their families.

Maingot, S., Verhage, M. L., Schuengel, C., Waters, T. E. A., Roisman, G. I., Duschinsky, R., Bakermans-Kranenburg, M. J., Nivison, M. D., Meijer, E. E. J., van IJzendoorn, M. H., Madigan, S., Dagan, O., Cyr, C., Behrens, K. Y., Myre, G., van Meeuwen, E. C., Zhu, V., Wong, M. S., Meins, E., & The Attachment Secondary Processing and Analysis Network of the Collaboration on Attachment Transmission Synthesis (ASPAN-CATS). Organizing adult attachment in alternative ways: A qualitative assessment of schemas antithetical to the secure base script.

BOOK/CHAPTERS

Dagan, O., & Waters, T. E. A. (in preparation). Attachment and psychopathology: A secure base script perspective.

Dagan, O., & Waters, T. E. A. (in preparation). Translating secure base scripts into therapeutic practice through the Adult Attachment Interview.

Dagan, O., & Sagi-Schwartz, A. (2020). Infant attachment (to mother and father) and its place in human development: Five decades of promising research (and an unsettled issue). In J. J. Lockman & C. S. Tamis-LeMonda (Eds.), Cambridge Handbook of Infant Development (pp. 687-714). Cambridge University Press.

Dagan, O. (2013). Camus and Popper: On the Absurdity of the Transformations within Scientific Theories. Tel Aviv: Resling Press (in Hebrew).