The Relatioins Between Attachment Featuresand Interpersonal Trust & Friendship Quality Among AIDS-affected Children

With the worldwide spread of (Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome, AIDS) and the development in China, the number of AIDS-affected children is continuing to increase. Based on the reviews on the research status of AIDS-affected children both at home and abroad, we find that the researches until now focus mostly on their social supports and mental health, yet the researches on interpersonal relationship of these AIDS-affected children are in shortage. The great blow caused by parents'illnesses or death seriously affects the interpersonal trust and dating status of these children. Moreover, poor peer relations also influence the adolescent mental health. Therefore, it becomes an indispensable task to inspect the parent attachment, interpersonal trust, and peer relations, adjust the psychological condition of the AIDS-affected children, help them find appropriate approaches of mediation, and cultivate their healthy minds and positive attitudes towards life.The "AIDS-affected children" in this research include AIDS orphans (One or both of parents died from AIDS), the children directly affected by AIDS (live with AIDS-infected parents or relatives), and the children indirectly affected by AIDS (live within the area with high morbidity of AIDS, yet no AIDS patients in the nuclear family). We invite them to fill in the revised questionnaire, and draw the following conclusions through research:1.There are significant positive correlations between the AIDS-affected children and different attachment objects in terms of attachment quality, and the attachment quality of AIDS-affected children to their mothers is significantly higher than other attachment objects. The attachment to parents can be used to predict the friend attachment of affected children, the predicative role of mother is higher than that of father. Meanwhile, the attachment to mother can be used to predict the friend attachment of AIDS orphans, the attachment to parents can be used to predict the attachment to minders, and the predicative role of father is higher than that of mother.2. There are significant positive correlations between the attachment of AIDS-affected children to their parents and the peer relations. That is, the attachment to their parents can be used to predict the peer relations, and the higher the attachment to parents is, the higher the friendship quality will be. That is, the peer relations are good.3. There are significant positive correlations between the peer relations of AIDS-affected children and the trusts from parents, classmates, and teachers. The higher level of interpersonal trust is, the higher level of peer relations will be. The trusts from parents and teachers serve as an important predictor of the positive friendship.4. Children affected by AIDS with their parents trust the quality of friendship, trust and teacher confidence in the students there was a significant positive correlation, the higher the level of interpersonal trust, friendship, the higher the level of quality; parents trust and friendship between teacher trust has an important positive predictor.5. As for the children directly affected by AIDS, there are no significant quality and sex differences in the attachment to their fathers, mothers, and companions. As for AIDS orphans, there are significant quality and sex differences in the attachment to their fathers, mothers, and companions, and the girls'attachment quality to fathers and mothers is better than that of boys'.6. The trusts from parents and teachers serve as the intervening variable role in the impact of attachment to parents on peer relations among AIDS-affected children, the intermediation serves as part of the mediating effect.