Shyness and Socioemotional Functioning in Young Chinese Children: The Moderating Role of Insecure Attachment

Autor/inn/en	Zhu, Jingjing; Xiao, Bowen; Li, Yan; Hipson, Will E.; Coplan, Robert J.
Titel	Shyness and Socioemotional Functioning in Young Chinese Children: The Moderating Role of Insecure Attachment
Quelle	In: Merrill-Palmer Quarterly: Journal of Developmental Psychology, 66 (2020) 2, S.174-198, Artikel 3 (25 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0272-930X
Schlagwörter	Shyness; Social Development; Social Adjustment; Emotional Development; Preschool Children; Kindergarten; Attachment Behavior; Mothers; Security (Psychology); Parent Child Relationship; Public Schools; Correlation; Interpersonal Competence; Foreign Countries; Learning Problems; Anxiety; China (Shanghai) + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Schüchternheit; Soziale Entwicklung; Soziale Anpassung; Gefühlsbildung; Pre-school age; Preschool age; Child; Children; Pre-school education; Preschool education; Vorschulalter; Kind; Kinder; Vorschulkind; Vorschulkinder; Vorschulerziehung; Vorschule; Attachment; Bindungsverhalten; Mother; Mutter; Security; Psychology; Sicherheit; Parents-child relationship; Parent-child-relation; Parent-child relationship; Eltern-Kind-Beziehung; Public school; Öffentliche Schule; Korrelation; Interpersonale Kompetenz; Ausland; Lernproblem; Angst
Abstract	The aim of this short-term longitudinal study was to explore the moderating role of insecure mother--child attachment (i.e., ambivalent and avoidant) in the relations between shyness and indices of adjustment difficulties in early childhood. Participants were 360 children (200 boys and 160 girls, M[subscript age]=4.72 years, SD=0.63) attending preschools/kindergartens in Shanghai, People's Republic of China. At Time 1, mothers rated children's shyness and insecure attachment. At Time 2, 1½ years later, teachers assessed children's adjustment outcomes at school. Among the results, shyness was negatively associated with sociability, social competence, and internalizing problems. However, both ambivalent and avoidant insecure attachment significantly moderated these associations, exacerbating the relations between shyness and indices of adjustment difficulties. Results are discussed in terms of the contributions of attachment to young shy children's adjustment outcomes. (As Provided).
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Update	2024/1/01