Father/Mother Attachment, Rejection Expectation and Peer Attachment amongst School-Age Boys' and Girls'
AUTHOR : 민하영,이영미
INFORMATION : page. 139~154 / 2012 Vol.19 No.4
ABSTRACT
This study investigated the influence of father/ mother attachment and rejection expectation on school-age
boys' and girls' peer attachment. The participants consisted of 275 school-age children in Daegu and
Gyeongbok Province. The data thus collected were analyzed by means of t-test, Pearson's correlation and
hierarchical multiple regressions, using the SPSS PC(15.0 version). The results were as follows. (1)
School-age children's peer attachment showed manifestly different results for boys and girls. Additionally,
the level of school-age boys' peer attachment was lower than the level of school-age girls'. (2) Both father
attachment and mother attachment amongst school-age children's had a positive influence on peer
attachment for boys and girls. (3) School-age children's rejection expectations had a negative influence on
peer attachment for boys and girls. (4) The explanatory power of school-age boys' father attachment and
rejection expectation on peer attachment, and the explanatory power of school-age boys' mother attachment
and rejection attachment on peer attachment were rather higher than the explanatory power in the case of
school-age girls'. (5) School-age children's rejection expectations were more powerful in relation to father
attachment for boys and girls. School-age children's rejection expectations were more powerful in relation
to mother attachment for boys but for not girls.