title: Relations among early adolescents' parent-adolescent attachment, perceived social competence, and friendship quality.
abstract: To assess whether the relation between attachment and friendship quality may be explained by social competence, 113 students in Grades 7 and 8 from the Baltimore metropolitan area completed self-report questionnaires on the variables of interest. In hierarchical regression analyses, both maternal Affective Quality of Attachment and the interaction of School with paternal Affective Quality of Attachment predicted social competence. Also, the interaction of School with paternal Affective Quality of Attachment predicted negative friendship features, whereas social competence predicted positive friendship features. These findings provide support for a pathway between adolescents' attachment to both parents and adolescents' perceived social competence and, in turn, their friendship quality.
authors.affiliation: Loyola University Maryland, USA.
authors.forename: Melissa W
authors.initials: MW
authors.lastname: Boling
authors.forename: Carolyn McNamara
authors.initials: CM
authors.lastname: Barry
authors.forename: Beth A
authors.initials: BA
authors.lastname: Kotchick
authors.forename: Jen
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Lowry
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000294:Adolescent Behavior / Q000523:psychology; D000339:Affect; D015142:Baltimore; D002648:Child; D005190:Family / Q000523:psychology; D033062:Friends / Q000523:psychology*; D006801:Humans; D007398:Interpersonal Relations; D008297:Male; D009769:Object Attachment; D010287:Parent-Child Relations; D010379:Peer Group; D012649:Self Concept; D057566:Self Report; D012737:Sex Factors; D012919:Social Behavior; D012938:Social Perception; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires