The longitudinal study of developmental process of peer relationships in infancy: from 0 to 3 years old

本研究的目的是通过比较两种基本理论来探讨幼儿同伴关系的发展过程。第一个是依恋理论，它表明了亲子亲密关系的重要性；第二个是社会网络理论，它代表了婴儿时期儿童周围的个人网络对他们以后的同伴关系的重要性。参与者是大约300名从0岁到3岁的儿童。结果表明，3岁时同伴数量和与同伴玩耍的频率与依恋相关方差无关，但与0岁时个人网络的大小、2岁时是否参加托儿中心和2岁时母亲同伴管理的频率有关。

The purpose of this study was to investigate the developmental process of peer relationships in infancy by comparing two basic theories. First is the Attachment Theory which shows the importance of parent-child intimate relationship and second is the Social Network Theory which represents the importance of personal networks around children in infancy for their peer relationships later. Participants were approximately 300 children who were followed-up from 0 to 3 years old. The results showed that the number of peer and the frequency of play with mates at age 3 were not predicted by the attachment-related variances, but by the size of a personal network at age 0, whether or not a child attends a childcare center at age 2 and the frequency of mother's peer management at age 2.