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50 Years of ERIC
The Education Resources Information Center (ERIC) is celebrating its 50th Birthday! First opened on May 15th, 1964 ERIC continues the long tradition of ongoing innovation and enhancement.

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Positive and Negative Emotions and Coping as Mediators of Mother-Child Attachment and Peer Relationships
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Abraham, Michelle M.; Kerns, Kathryn A. – Merrill-Palmer Quarterly: Journal of Developmental Psychology, 2013
This study examined whether emotions and coping explain (mediate) the association between mother-child attachment and peer relationships. Attachment, positive and negative emotion experience, coping, and peer relationships were examined in 106 fourth-grade through sixth-grade girls attending a 6-day residential camp. Attachment, experience of…
Descriptors: Emotional Response, Coping, Parent Child Relationship, Attachment Behavior
Homesickness at Summer Camp: Associations with the Mother-Child Relationship, Social Self-Concept, and Peer Relationships in Middle Childhood
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Kerns, Kathryn A.; Brumariu, Laura E.; Abraham, Michelle M. – Merrill-Palmer Quarterly: Journal of Developmental Psychology, 2008
The goal of the present study was to investigate how the quality of the mother-child relationship, social self-concept, and the quality of peer relationships predict girls' feelings of homesickness at a residential summer camp. We expected that children with secure attachments to their mothers, a more positive social self-concept, and better…
Descriptors: Mothers, Self Concept, Friendship, Parent Child Relationship