Attachment is predictive of social and emotional outcomes such as engagement in preschool peer groups, the capacity for close friendships in middle childhood, the ability to coordinate friendships and group functioning in adolescence, and the capacity to form trusting, nonhostile romantic relationships in adulthood. Those with secure histories were more socially competent and likelier to be peer leaders.

Authors

• Person: Emily Samuel Organization: The Royal Foundation Centre for Early Childhood
  Attachment and social and emotional development

Sources

• Attachment and social and emotional development centreforearlychildhood.org Emily Samuel · The Royal Foundation Centre for Early Childhood via serper

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