Mother-Child Attachment and Social Anxiety Symptoms in Middle Childhood

Autor/inn/en	Brumariu, Laura E.; Kerns, Kathryn A.
Titel	Mother-Child Attachment and Social Anxiety Symptoms in Middle Childhood
Quelle	In: Journal of Applied Developmental Psychology, 29 (2008) 5, S.393-402 (10 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0193-3973
DOI	10.1016/j.appdev.2008.06.002
Schlagwörter	Children; Grade 5; Grade 3; Anxiety; Attachment Behavior; Parent Child Relationship; Mothers; Symptoms (Individual Disorders); Correlation; Adjustment (to Environment); Age Differences; Longitudinal Studies + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Child; Kind; Kinder; School year 05; 5. Schuljahr; Schuljahr 05; School year 03; 3. Schuljahr; Schuljahr 03; Angst; Attachment; Bindungsverhalten; Parents-child relationship; Parent-child-relation; Parent-child relationship; Eltern-Kind-Beziehung; Mother; Mutter; Psychiatrische Symptomatik; Korrelation; Age; Difference; Age difference; Altersunterschied; Longitudinal study; Longitudinal method; Longitudinal methods; Längsschnittuntersuchung
Abstract	Literature suggests that parent-child attachment and anxiety symptoms are related. One purpose of the present study was to assess whether attachment patterns relate differentially to social anxiety aspects (fear of negative evaluation, social anxiety and distress in new situations, and generalized anxiety and distress). The second purpose was to investigate these links both longitudinally and concurrently in middle childhood. Children (N = 74) completed measures of secure, ambivalent, and avoidant attachments with mothers in grades 3 and 5 and a measure of social anxiety symptoms in grade 5. Longitudinal analyses showed that ambivalent attachment was most consistently related to social anxiety. Concurrent measures of attachment and social anxiety showed that lower attachment security and higher ambivalent attachment were most consistently related to higher social anxiety. Concurrent attachment predicted variance in social anxiety after controlling for earlier attachment. Findings suggest that anxiety interventions might target attachment. (Contains 3 tables.) (As Provided).
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Update	2017/4/10