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Change In Parental And Peer Relationship Quality During Emerging Adulthood Implications For Academic, Social, And Emotional Functioning [Post-Print], Laura Holt, Jonathan Mattanah, Michelle Long

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We report on two longitudinal studies, where we examined how stability and change in attachment to parents and peers from the first to last year of college were associated with changes in theoretically relevant outcomes. As expected, students with consistently secure parental and peer attachment evidenced the best academic, social, and emotional functioning overall. Participants with “stable secure” parental attachment reported significant increases in their academic and emotional functioning and their social competencies; on the other hand, students with consistently low parental attachment showed a decline in their emotional functioning. Participants with stable secure peer attachment also reported lower overall …