Psychological Development and Education ›› 2009, Vol. 25 ›› Issue (3): 32-38.

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The Characteristics of Students’ Peer Attachment and Its Relationship with Friendship Quality: Social Goals as a Mediator

LI Xiao-qing1,2, ZOU Hong1, LIU Yan1, YANG Ying1   

  1. 1. The Institute of Developmental Psychology, Beijing Normal University, Beijing 100875;
    2. Department of Educational Psychology, the Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
  • Online:2009-07-15 Published:2009-07-15

Abstract: 593 students participated in current study.Questionnaires were used to explore the characteristics of students' peer attachment, and its relationship with social goals and friendship quality.The results showed that:(1)the students' peer attachment could be categorized with 4 styles, including secure, preoccupied, dismissing and fearful, whose proportion were 34.5%, 23.8%, 22.1% and 19.6%, respectively.(2)there were significant differences between grades and sex in peer attachment.That is, attachment anxiety of Grade 8 was significantly higher than Grade 10.And attachment avoidance of Grade 7 was higher than Grade 8, Grade 10 and Grade 11.Boys'attachment anxiety was significantly lower than girls', but their attachment avoidance was higher than girls'.(3)the 4 styles differed significantly in social goals and friendship quality.(4)the help and support, intimacy of social goals served as a partial mediator in the relationship between peer attachment and friendship quality.

Key words: peer attachment, social goals, friendship quality, students

CLC Number: 

  • B844.2
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