유아의 애착안정성이 조망수용에 미치는 영향: 실행기능의 매개효과를 중심으로

Abstract

Objective: This study aimed to examine the prospective links among perspective taking, attachment security, and executive function and the mediating role of executive function on the relationship between attachment security and perspective taking. Methods: The participants included 147 preschoolers living in Gyeonggi. The data-analysis methods included descriptive statistics, independent t -tests, one-way ANOVAs, Pearsons correlation analysis, hierarchical multiple regression analysis, and the Sobel test. Results: First, preschoolers perspective taking was significantly related to attachment security, and executive function. Furthermore, there was a significant association between attachment security and executive function. As expected, the correlations were positive in all cases. Second, the effects of attachment security on intention and emotion perspective takings were fully mediated by executive function when holding childrens age and vocabulary constant. However, executive function did not predict thought perspective taking, whereas attachment security did. Conclusion: Given that parent?child attachment security might play an important role in child cognitive and socio-cognitive development, parents endeavors to enhance the quality of the attachment relationship could be a fruitful path for preschoolers developing executive capacities and perspective taking.