Child’s attachment to his/her mother, father and kindergarten teacher

Abstract

The purpose of this article was to introduce the newly developed scale of Child’s Attachment to his/her Kindergarten Teacher and adapted scales of child’s attachment to his/her mother and father. The main goal of the research was to analyze the relationships between child’s attachment to his/her mother, father and kindergarten teacher. One hundred and seventy‐eight kindergarten children (49% boys) and their mothers (n = 67), fathers (n = 57) and kindergarten teachers (n = 23) participated in the research. Children’s ages ranged from 36 to 82 months. Little evidence was found for concordance in attachment quality between child–mother and child–father, and non‐concordance between child–parent and child–teacher.

Keywords:

• Attachment
• Father
• Kindergarten teacher
• Mother
• Scales