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Cathryn Booth-LaForce

Researcher at University of Washington

Publications -  103
Citations -  6490

Cathryn Booth-LaForce is an academic researcher from University of Washington. The author has contributed to research in topics: Friendship & Attachment theory. The author has an hindex of 41, co-authored 94 publications receiving 5871 citations.

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Attachment, Friendship, and Psychosocial Functioning in Early Adolescence

TL;DR: High friendship quality buffered the effects of low maternal support on girls’c internalizing difficulties and predicted higher global self-worth and social competence and less internalizing problems.
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The Best Friendships of Shy/Withdrawn Children: Prevalence, Stability, and Relationship Quality

TL;DR: It was revealed that shy/withdrawn children were as likely as control children to have mutual stable best friendships and similarities in social withdrawal and peer victimization were revealed for withdrawn children and their friends.
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Maternal sensitivity to infant distress and nondistress as predictors of infant-mother attachment security.

TL;DR: Data from the NICHD Study of Early Child Care provided a unique opportunity to address the notion that the protective function of the child-mother attachment relationship may be especially salient during early infancy.
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Social Information Processing and Coping Strategies of Shy/Withdrawn and Aggressive Children: Does Friendship Matter?

TL;DR: From the findings emerges a central message: friends' involvement during interpersonal challenges or stressors mitigates children's attributions, emotions, and coping responses.