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Attachment style, home-leaving age and behavioral problems among residential care children
Mally Shechory1, Eliane Sommerfeld
1Department of Criminology, Bar-Ilan University, Ramat-Gan, 52900, Israel. mally@bezeqint.net
Abstract:
In a prospective study, the attachment style, home-leaving age, length of time in residential care, and behavioral problems among Israeli residential care children (N = 68), were studied. Data analyses showed that children removed from their homes at a later age suffered from higher levels of anxiety, depression and social problems compared to children taken from their homes at the age of 7 or less. It was also found that a prolonged stay (over 2 years) in residential care was related to higher levels of anxiety and depression. An interaction effect of a child's attachment style and home-leaving age was found in the child's level of aggressive behavior.
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