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Q-Sort Assessment of Child–Teacher Attachment Relationships and Social Competence in the Preschool

Jennifer Mitchell-Copeland · Susanne Ayers Denham · Elizabeth K. DeMulder

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Early Childhood Education and Development Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development Attachment and Relationship Dynamics

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The implications of the attachment relationship between children and their preschool teachers was investigated. Sixty-two preschool-age children and their teachers were studied to assess relations between the quality of attachment relationships and social competence. Results indicate that attachment security with teacher is related to prosocial behavior and teacher-rated social competence in the preschool. In addition, evidence suggests that when the child–mother attachment relationship is insecure, a secure attachment relationship with a preschool teacher may partially compensate for the insecure relationship. Children who were insecurely attached to mother but securely attached to teacher had higher teacher-rated social competence, were more prosocial, and were more positive emotionally than children who were insecurely attached to both mother and teacher.

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