Maternal, Teacher, and Child Care History Correlates of Children's Relationships with Peers

• Published in: Child development Vol. 65; no. 1; pp. 264 - 273
• Main Authors: Howes, Carollee, Matheson, Catherine C., Hamilton, Claire E.
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Malden, MA University of Chicago Press 01.02.1994; Blackwell; University of Chicago Press for the Society for Research in Child Development, etc; Blackwell Publishing Ltd
• Subjects: Age; Attachment Behavior; Biological and medical sciences; Child; Child care; Child development; Developmental psychology; Female; Fundamental and applied biological sciences. Psychology; Humans; Infant; Infants; Influences; Interpersonal Competence; Longitudinal Studies; Mother-Child Relations; Mothers; Peer Group; Peer relations; Peer Relationship; Peer relationships; Personal relationships; Preschool children; Preschool Education; Psychology, Child; Psychology. Psychoanalysis. Psychiatry; Psychology. Psychophysiology; Social research; Socialization; Sociometrics; Teacher Influence; Teacher Student Relationship; Teachers; Teaching; Toddlers; Workforce; Young Children; Human; Preschool age; Affect affectivity; Day care center; Peer relation; Infant; Mother child relation; Social development; Affective attachment; Familiarity strangeness; Social interaction; Social aptitude; Child; Antecedent
• ISSN: 0009-3920; 1467-8624
• DOI: 10.2307/1131380

Mother and teacher correlates of social competence with familiar and unfamiliar peers in 84 children who entered child care at three different times are examined. Social competence at age 4 was assessed with both familiar and unfamiliar peers. Relationships with both initial and 4-year-old teachers were related to social competence with peers. Maternal attachment relationships at 12 months and at 4 years did not predict social competence with peers.