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Father/Mother Attachment, Rejection Expectation and Peer Attachment amongst School-Age Boys' and Girls'
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Abstract
This study investigated the influence of father/ mother attachment and rejection expectation on school-ageboys' and girls' peer attachment. The participants consisted of 275 school-age children in Daegu andGyeongbok Province. The data thus collected were analyzed by means of t-test, Pearson's correlation andhierarchical 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 fatherattachment and mother attachment amongst school-age children's had a positive influence on peerattachment for boys and girls. (3) School-age children's rejection expectations had a negative influence onpeer attachment for boys and girls. (4) The explanatory power of school-age boys' father attachment andrejection expectation on peer attachment, and the explanatory power of school-age boys' mother attachmentand rejection attachment on peer attachment were rather higher than the explanatory power in the case ofschool-age girls'. (5) School-age children's rejection expectations were more powerful in relation to fatherattachment for boys and girls. School-age children's rejection expectations were more powerful in relationto mother attachment for boys but for not girls.