Assessment of Mothers' Secure Attachment and Social Fear among Kindergartens Children in Babylon City

Iman,; Alwan, H.

	Assessment of Mothers' Secure Attachment and Social Fear among Kindergartens Children in Babylon City
kufa Journal for Nursing sciences
Article 1, Volume 5, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 49-57
Authors
; H. Alwan
Abstract
Objective: The study aimed to assess secure attachment to mothers and the social fear, in kindergartens' children in Babylon city. Methodology: A descriptive - analytic study was conducted on kindergarten children in the Babylon city. The study was carried out through the period of March-April, 2011.Which consist of 100 child .To assess the secure attachment and social fear to Mother of kindergarten children both gender (male and female). The questionnaire was consisted of three parts: the first part is concerned demographic characteristics of the mothers that included (age of mother, level of education, income).and characteristic of child: the consists of general information, such as order of child in the family, gender, type of class, the second one consists of 27 items concern with secure attachments and the third one consists of 21 items concerned with the social fear. The validity and reliability of the instrument was determined by using through the panel of experts, and internal consistency through the computation of Alpha Correlation Coefficient. The data have been collected through the utilization of the interview. Data were analyzed through the application of descriptive statistical (frequencies and percentages).and inferential analysis chi2 by applying the Statistical Package for Social Science version 21.0 (SPSS) Result: The finding of the study showed that(37%) the of the sample was mother, aged 50 years and more .The result show that children have attached security and fear social moderate and there is no statistically significant relationship with other variables. Conclusion: The study concluded that kindergarten children have moderate level of secure attachment and social fear significant Recommendation: Researcher recommended educating mothers in correct methods for dealing with children, especially kindergarten teachers.
Keywords
Psychiatric Mental Health; Nursing Department; College of Nursing; University of Baghdad

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