Multiple attachment perspectives: the relationship between interpersonal attachment from family and school environments and children’s learning engagement

Table 1 Descriptive statistics and correlation analysis of study variables

	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	Boys (M ± SD)	Girls (M ± SD)	t	Cohen’s d
FCA	1	0.52^***	0.36^***	0.38^***	0.35^***	0.16^***	-0.07	21.04 ± 10.55	21.43 ± 10.98	-0.48	-0.04
MCA	0.51^***	1	0.46^***	0.47^***	0.42^***	0.13^***	-0.04	22.07 ± 9.82	23.62 ± 9.97	-2.07^*	-0.16
PA	0.32^***	0.51^***	1	0.58^***	0.50^***	0.08	0.03	43.13 ± 13.91	45.76 ± 14.21	-2.48^*	-0.19
TSR	0.35^***	0.45^***	0.48^***	1	0.59^***	0.18^***	-0.002	32.71 ± 11.26	35.64 ± 12.04	-3.33^**	-0.25
LE	0.31^***	0.49^***	0.43^***	0.56^***	1	0.12^**	0.02	56.36 ± 13.19	58.17 ± 12.34	-1.88^†	-0.14
SES	0.19^***	0.22^***	0.17^***	0.13^**	0.16^***	1	0.02	6.18 ± 1.86	6.60 ± 1.94	-2.91^**	-0.22
Age	-0.01	0.04	0.05	0.02	0.11^**	-0.1	1	10.44 ± 0.51	10.33 ± 0.47	2.76^**	0.22

Correlations in top of diagonal are for girls, in bottom for boys
FCA Father-child attachment, MCA Mother–child attachment, PA Peer attachment, TSR Teacher-student relationship, LE Learning engagement, SES Socioeconomic status
^*p < 0.05
^**p < 0.01
^***p < 0.001
^†p < 0.10

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