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Kerns, Kathryn A.; Brumariu, Laura E.; Abraham, Michelle M. – Merrill-Palmer Quarterly: Journal of Developmental Psychology, 2008
The goal of the present study was to investigate how the quality of the mother-child relationship, social self-concept, and the quality of peer relationships predict girls' feelings of homesickness at a residential summer camp. We expected that children with secure attachments to their mothers, a more positive social self-concept, and better…
Descriptors: Mothers, Self Concept, Friendship, Parent Child Relationship
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Booth-LaForce, Cathryn; Oxford, Monica L. – Developmental Psychology, 2008
From 1,092 children in the NICHD Study of Early Child Care and Youth Development, the authors identified 3 trajectory patterns of social withdrawal from teacher reports in Grades 1-6: a normative consistently low group (86%), a decreasing group (5%) with initially high withdrawal that decreased, and an increasing group (9%) with initially low…
Descriptors: Child Rearing, Prediction, Interpersonal Relationship, Elementary School Students