a William James Center for Research , ISPA-Instituto Universitário , Lisbon , Portugal.
b Auburn University , Auburn , USA.
Attach Hum Dev. 2019 Jun;21(3):265-274. doi: 10.1080/14616734.2019.1575549. Epub 2019 Feb 6.
Recent meta-analyses have reported significant effects of attachment quality on social competence, mostly using observational assessments of attachment behavior to assess security. We analyze the associations between attachment security - assessed as a secure base script, and social competence with peers - measured by teachers' ratings on two self-report instruments, in a Portuguese sample of 82 preschool children (34 boys and 48 girls). We also tested the association between children's secure base script scores and teacher ratings for externalizing and internalizing symptomatology. Results show significant sex differences. Girls had higher scores on secure base script and were rated by teachers as more socially competent, while boys received higher ratings for aggressive/externalizing behaviors. Nonetheless, when the effect of child sex was controlled, attachment representations were positively associated with child social competence and negatively associated with ratings of externalizing behaviors.
最近的荟萃分析报告称，依恋质量对社交能力有显著影响，这些研究主要使用观察性依恋行为评估来评估安全性。我们分析了依恋安全性（通过安全基地脚本评估）与同伴社交能力之间的关联，这是通过对葡萄牙 82 名学龄前儿童（34 名男孩和 48 名女孩）的两个自我报告工具的教师评分来衡量的。我们还测试了儿童安全基地脚本分数与教师对外化和内化症状的评分之间的关联。结果显示出显著的性别差异。女孩在安全基地脚本上的得分更高，被教师评为更具社交能力，而男孩则因攻击性/外化行为而获得更高的评分。尽管如此，当控制儿童性别效应时，依恋表现与儿童社交能力呈正相关，与外化行为的评分呈负相关。
