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In preschool and school‐aged children, a link between attachment insecurity and behavior problems remains with studies among preschoolers linking behavior problems to resistant‐like attachment behaviors (DeVito & Hopkins, 2001) and disorganized attachment (Vondra et al., 2001). Similarly, a meta‐analytic study conducted by Fearon and colleagues (2010) found a significant relation between attachment insecurity and externalizing symptoms across studies. A complimentary meta‐analytic study conducted by Groh et al. (2012) found a significant link between attachment insecurity, particularly avoidance, and internalizing symptoms. This conclusion agrees with many other studies linking avoidant attachments to increased anxiety symptoms in school‐aged children (Warren, Emde, & Sroufe, 2000; Shamir‐Essakow, Ungerer, & Rapee, 2005). Importantly, these findings suggest that while attachment relates to various forms of psychopathology, the relation to externalizing problems is strongest.