It is widely accepted that children's attachment security influences the quality of their later
relationships with peers. Meta-analytic data, however, suggest that only a small to moderate …

Efforts to identify children at risk for social and academic difficulties at an early age have
begun to apply conceptualizations of social competence with peers from childhood to …

One important aspect of social competence is the ability to accommodate social behavior to
different contexts. Can children who are just beginning to acquire peer interactional skills …

Scholars and practitioners have devoted considerable attention during the last decade to the
creation of and evaluating programs for enhancing children's peer relations. These efforts …

Classroom observations and teacher and sociometric ratings described peer interactions
and friendships of 1-6-year-old children enrolled in full-time child care. The study was both …

A longitudinal design was employed to examine the relationship between infant-mother
attachment and subsequent competence with peers. Forty 4-5 year old first born children in …

Early attachment quality was related to social competence with an unfamiliar peer at age
four, and to maternal management of peer interaction. Subjects were thirty-eight children …

This paper reviews previous literature about peer acceptance and friendship, two of the most
critical aspects of peer relations that have received most of research attention during the …

This study examined the role of language, attention/impulse control, and mother–child play
in predicting later peer competence by assessing 252 children at ages 3 and 8 years …

The transition from preschool to early school years is critical for the growth of social skills.
Using data from the NICHD Study of Early Child Care and Youth Development (for this study …