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Mother-Child Attachment and Social Anxiety: Associations with Friendship Skills and Peer Competence of Arab Children
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Scharf, Miri; Kerns, Kathryn A.; Rousseau, Sofie; Kivenson-Baron, Inbal – School Psychology International, 2016
The goal of the study was to examine the joint and distinct contribution of attachment security and social anxiety to Arab children's peer competence in middle childhood. We focused on Arab children as very little research has examined close relationships for this group. A sample of 404 third-, fourth- and fifth-grade Arabic students (203 boys and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Arabs, Parent Child Relationship, Mothers
Positive and Negative Emotions and Coping as Mediators of Mother-Child Attachment and Peer Relationships
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Abraham, Michelle M.; Kerns, Kathryn A. – Merrill-Palmer Quarterly: Journal of Developmental Psychology, 2013
This study examined whether emotions and coping explain (mediate) the association between mother-child attachment and peer relationships. Attachment, positive and negative emotion experience, coping, and peer relationships were examined in 106 fourth-grade through sixth-grade girls attending a 6-day residential camp. Attachment, experience of…
Descriptors: Emotional Response, Coping, Parent Child Relationship, Attachment Behavior
Attachment Quality and Bullying Behavior in School-Aged Youth
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Walden, Laura M.; Beran, Tanya N. – Canadian Journal of School Psychology, 2010
The purpose of this study was to determine the relationship between students' quality of attachment to their primary caregivers and the frequency with which they bully others and are the victims of bullying. One hundred and five students in Grades 4, 6, and 8 (46 girls, 59 boys; M = 10.5 years) completed paper and pencil surveys. Results indicated…
Descriptors: Bullying, Caregivers, Attachment Behavior, Grade 4
Parent Alcohol Problems and Peer Bullying and Victimization: Child Gender and Toddler Attachment Security as Moderators
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Eiden, Rina D.; Ostrov, Jamie M.; Colder, Craig R.; Leonard, Kenneth E.; Edwards, Ellen P.; Orrange-Torchia, Toni – Journal of Clinical Child and Adolescent Psychology, 2010
This study examined the association between parents' alcoholism and peer bullying and victimization in middle childhood in 162 community-recruited families (80 girls and 82 boys) with and without alcohol problems. Toddler-mother attachment was assessed at 18 months of child age, and child reports of peer bullying and victimization were obtained in…
Descriptors: Bullying, Mothers, Alcoholism, Toddlers
Forecasting Friendship: How Marital Quality, Maternal Mood, and Attachment Security Are Linked to Children's Peer Relationships
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Lucas-Thompson, Rachel; Clarke-Stewart, K. Alison – Journal of Applied Developmental Psychology, 2007
Mothers' perceptions of marital quality and depressed mood and children's attachment security and friendship quality were assessed in the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development Study of Early Child Care and Youth Development. One month after their birth and again when the children were 3 and 4 years old and in first and third…
Descriptors: Child Health, Mothers, Marital Satisfaction, Friendship
Parent and Peer Attachment in Late Childhood and Early Adolescence
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Nickerson, Amanda B.; Nagle, Richard J. – Journal of Early Adolescence, 2005
This study investigated child and early adolescent relationships with parents and peers within the theoretical framework of attachment. A cross-sectional sample of 279 fourth, sixth, and eighth graders completed two self-report measures assessing attachment to parents and friends. Fourth graders described more trusting and communicative…
Descriptors: Early Adolescents, Parent Role, Attachment Behavior, Parent Child Relationship