Rearing Styles, Parents' Attachment Mental State,and Children's Social Abilities: The Link to Peer Acceptance

Table 1

Mean, mean rank, and Mann-Whitney 𝑈 of mothers’ and fathers’ interactive categories as function of their attachment classifications.

Parental	Secure		Insecure		Mann-Whitney
interactive styles	Mean	Mean rank	Mean	Mean rank	𝑈	𝑃
Positive behavior
Mothers	14.24	22.31	6.00	12.09	57.50	.003
Fathers	13.38	21.53	5.41	12.74	63.50	.009
Negative behavior
Mothers	0.72	14.17	3.25	21.25	84.00	.031
Fathers	0.19	13.53	1.24	20.26	80.50	.020
Control patterns
Mothers	1.39	14.08	3.94	21.34	82.50	.030
Fathers	1.94	17.38	2.00	16.25	130.00	.823
Neutral conversation
Mothers	14.22	19.06	11.94	15.75	116.00	.333
Fathers	12.81	14.97	15.00	18.91	103.50	.241
Correcting
Mothers	2.78	18.58	2.19	16.28	124.50	.490
Fathers	1.31	16.41	1.29	17.56	126.50	.707
Disconfirming
Mothers	0.17	14.83	1.00	20.50	96.00	.039
Fathers	0.50	13.56	1.12	20.24	81.00	.028

Note: significant differences in bold.