Emotional security and family relationships of Spanish college students

This study is grounded on Systems Theory and Emotional Security Theory, aims at extending past work by examining relations among children’s emotional security in the family system quality of relationships college students, a population scarcely addressed Theory. Participants were 236 female male students attending public Spanish University (meanage = 20.13 years old). We used Family System Scale (SIFS), Stress Scale, Satisfaction Bidirectional Parent-Adolescent Relationships (BiPAR), measures destructive constructive interparental conflict. The variables “living with family” “parental divorce” also studied. Results showed that parental divorce related to higher stress, less conflict resolution worse bidirectional fathers. There not significant differences any under analyses between who lived their families while compared those did live families. explained 52% variance satisfaction. has theoretical implications as it applies young adults from divorced intact either or college. Our results agree support this It practical for mental health counselling services pointing potential risk protective students.