@article{ref1,
title="Preschoolers' secure base script representations predict teachers' ratings of social competence and externalizing behavior",
journal="Attachment and human development",
year="2019",
author="Fernandes, Marilia and Veríssimo, Manuela and Santos, António J. and Fernandes, Carla and Antunes, Marta and Vaughn, Brian E.",
volume="21",
number="3",
pages="265-274",
abstract="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. <br><br>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.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="1461-6734",
doi="10.1080/14616734.2019.1575549",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/14616734.2019.1575549"
}