| The Effect of Child-Parent Attachment on Children’s Mutual Friendships and Mutual Antipathy Relations |
| Hee-Kyung Park1, In-Seol Kang2 |
1Department of Early Childhood Education, Pusan National University
2Department of Early Childhood Education, Choonhae College of Health Sciences |
| Corresponding Author:
In-Seol Kang ,Tel: +82-52-270-0100, Fax: +82-52-225-9889, Email: seol1213@hanamil.net |
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Received: July 31, 2012; Revised: August 8, 2012 Accepted: October 22, 2012. |
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| ABSTRACT |
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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. |
| Keywords:
mutual friendship, mutual antipathy, child-parent attachment, logistic regression analysis |
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