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Who's there? The mediation of adult early attachment experience and education investment

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We identified 316 pairs of parents of preschool children and used the questionnaire method to investigate the influence of mother–child and father-child attachment on preschool children's anxiety and the mediating role of early adult attachment experience and parental involvement. The results showed the following:

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    The mother–child attachment and anxiety dimensions of father-child attachment positively predict preschool children's anxiety.

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    Overinvested adult early attachment experience and the interactive dimension of parenting investment play a mediating chain role in the relationship between mother–child attachment and preschool children's anxiety.

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    The overinvested dimension of early adult attachment partially mediated the relationship between the anxiety dimension of father-child attachment and preschool children's anxiety, and the mediating role of parenting investment in the influence of father-child attachment on preschool children's anxiety was not established.

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Li, J., Liu, X. Who's there? The mediation of adult early attachment experience and education investment. Curr Psychol 43, 8602–8613 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12144-023-05015-z

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