Factors Associated with Parent–Adolescent Attachment Relationship Quality: A Longitudinal Study

Background: Attachment to parents during adolescence has been identified as an important indicator of psychosocial adaptation. However, the relative importance adolescents’ behavior problems and larger relational context likely influence quality these relationships remains relatively underexplored. The present study aims identify factors associated with parent–adolescent attachment establish their contributions. This also tested, a complementary objective, invariance models according sex. Method: 706 (46.9% girls) early adolescents participated in at time 1 then again, two years later. individual (e.g., or temperament) contextual parents’ behaviors, history abuse environment stability) were measured 1, while relationship was 2. Results: results showed that emotional abuse, inconsistent discipline, externalized adolescent’s age negatively global security score, internalized peer positively associated. These variables explained 15.7% variance. demonstrated specific dimensions (trust, communication, alienation). Discussion: demonstrates several development relationship.