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The Effect of Child-Parent Attachment on Children's Mutual Friendships and Mutual Antipathy Relations

유아-부모 애착이 유아의 상호 우정과 상호 반감관계에 미치는 영향

  • Park, Hee-Kyung (Department of Early Childhood Education, Pusan National University) ;
  • Kang, In-Seol (Department of Early Childhood Education, Choonhae College of Health Sciences)
  • Received : 2012.07.31
  • Accepted : 2012.10.22
  • Published : 2012.12.30
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Abstract

The purpose of this study is to examine the influence of the child-mother attachment and the child-father attachment (secure attachment, insecure avoidant and insecure disorganized attachment) on children's mutual friendships and mutual antipathy relations. The subjects consisted of 116 5-6 year old kindergarteners (64 boys & 52 girls) and they were asked to respond to the Attachment Story Completion Task by Bretherton & Cassidy (1990), based on the sociometric popularity postulated by Coie & Dodge (1988). Data were analyzed by the logistic regression analysis and the one-way ANOVA method and the Scheffe test in multiple comparisons analysis. The results concluded that 1)There were differences in terms of child-mother attachment and child-father attachment when it came to a child's mutual friendship. The secure child-mother and child-father attachment groups had more mutual friendships than the insecure attachment groups. 2)There were no differences in terms of child-mother attachment and child-father attachment when it came to child's mutual antipathy. 3) 78.0% of the mutual friendships were accurately classified as existence with respect to child-mother and child-father attachment.

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