title: Attachment security, personality, and adjustment of elementary school children.
abstract: Children's development is assumed to be closely related to their attachment security and their personality. The authors' aim was to examine the joint contribution of attachment security and personality traits to children's adjustment by examining diverse children's outcomes (emotional symptoms, social functioning, and behavioral problems) and using various perspectives (children, parents, and teachers). The sample comprised 247 8-12-year-old children from low socioeconomic status neighborhoods. Personality and attachment contribute to the different domains of adjustment. In cases of moderation, attachment security moderates the implications of personality traits on children's adjustment. The findings highlight the contribution of positive personality tendencies in playing down the difficulties of insecurely attached children.
authors.affiliation: Graduate School of Creative Arts, University of Haifa, Haifa, Israel. limor.goldner@weizmann.ac.il
authors.forename: Limor
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Goldner
authors.forename: Miri
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Scharf
mesh_terms: D002648:Child; D005178:Faculty; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D009769:Object Attachment; D010290:Parents; D010551:Personality / Q000502:physiology*; D012737:Sex Factors; D012917:Social Adjustment; D012923:Social Class