This is an introductory summary of a full paper which presents a critical review of the research literature on the relation
between attachment to parents during adolescence and psychological and social adjustment.
These results indicate that having a secure attachment to peers may be a potential protective factor against bullying involvement for males with
insecure attachments to parents.
Although many empirical studies found evidence suggesting that
poor attachment to parents increases the risk of delinquent behavior, a systematic review of the link between attachment and delinquency has not been conducted yet.
Attachment security is associated with superior functioning in young children — and young children with secure
attachments to both parents do better than children who are securely attached to only one parent.
They make the case that a secure, trusting
attachment to parents during childhood forms the basis for secure relationships and independence as adults.
Young children who grow with a secure and healthy
attachment to their parents stand a better chance of developing happy and content relationships with others in their life.
Thus, according to this hypothesis the link
between attachment to parents and delinquency should be similar across late childhood, adolescence and emerging adulthood.
Studies have shown that the major contributing factor to problem behaviors is a lack of secure and
healthy attachment to a parent or other adult primary caregiver.
Many researchers and therapists also look at how childhood
attachment to parents affects partners» abilities to empathize with each other as adults.
An extramarital relationship perfectly avoids the threat of intimacy in a sexual relationship, whereas the narcissist actually craves and longs for the intimacy that was lacking in his insecure
early attachment to his parent, and may very well be lacking in his current relationship with his wife.
For children under age 3 at the time of the divorce, the court considers the child's age, needs, emotions, and
attachment to both parents when setting a possession and access order.
Like Lawrence's «Momma, look at me,» Jordan's «I know he didn't mean to leave me on purpose» reveals the abandoned child's enduring
attachment to the parent who is already lost: an attachment that itself gives some succor to its subject, despite the absence of the object of love.
• Ten year olds who enjoy secure
attachments to both parents feel more competent than those who are securely attached only to one parent (Booth - LaForce et al, 2006).
In this state, she is able to communicate with her parents for an average of 40 minutes, which may prepare the way for her
future attachment to her parents, and her parent's attachment to her.
In her study, a meta - review of 64 articles published in peer - reviewed journals, Neilsen concludes that «infants form strong
attachments to both parents at roughly the same time.
This feature: Summary of Doyle, A.B., Moretti, M.M., Voss, K and Margolese,
S. Attachment to Parents and Adjustment in Adolescence: Literature Review and Policy Implications.
We first focus on the mechanisms regarding how secure attachments to parents serv
Jent and Niec (2006) also assessed whether parenting stress, perceived parental social support, and
attachment to parents mediated the estimated effects of mentoring on child externalizing and internalizing behavior problems.
We found that the strength of the association between attachment and delinquency was negatively related to age, suggesting that the influence of
attachment to parents on delinquency weakens as youngsters become older.
«The Mediating Effects of Gratitude on the Relationships
between Attachment to Parents and Life Satisfaction in University Students» Korea Journal of Counseling 15, no. 3 (2014): 1277 - 1297.