A longitudinal study examined associations between child-mother attachment security and children's friendships at two points in early childhood. Comparisons of secure-secure and secure-insecure friend pairs revealed that the interactions of secure-secure pairs were more positive at age 4 and more positive and co-ordinated at age 5.
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