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

Table 2

Differences (Mann-Whitney 𝑈) between children’s behavioral orientation towards peers according to security and insecurity of their parents.

Attachment	Prosociality		Aggression		Isolation
categories	Mean rank	𝑈	Mean rank	𝑈	Mean rank	𝑈
Mothers
Insecure	13.81	85.0*	19.38	114.0	19.16	117.5
Secure	20.78		15.83		16.03
Fathers
Insecure	15.29	107.0	17.68	124.5	20.53	76.0*
Secure	18.81		16.28		13.25

Note: * 𝑃<.05.