Measuring Specific Attachment Relationships of Mother, Father and Peer in Malaysian Adolescents

Attachment and Peer Relationships

This study examined adolescents’ representations of attachment and peer relationships as predictors of delinquency. Data were gathered from a sample of 151 racially and socioeconomically diverse at-risk adolescents. Results revealed a relationship between peer relationships and delinquency, such that adolescents with better peer relationships had lower levels of delinquency. In addition, an int...

Attachment to Mother and Father at Transition to Middle Childhood

The present study investigated concordance between representations of attachment to mother and attachment to father, and convergence between two narrative-based methods addressing these representations in middle childhood: the Manchester Child Attachment Story Task (MCAST) and the Secure Base Script Test (SBST). One hundred and twenty 6-year-old children were assessed by separate administration...

Mother- and Father-Adolescent Relationships and Early Sexual Intercourse.

OBJECTIVES To assess the prospective associations between mother-adolescent and father-adolescent relationship quality and early sexual intercourse initiation (ie, ≤16 years) among a large sample of Dutch adolescents. METHODS Two waves of data from the Rotterdam Youth Monitor, a longitudinal study in the Netherlands, were used. The analysis sample consisted of 2931 adolescents aged 12 to 16 y...

The relation of attachment security to adolescents' paternal and peer relationships, depression, and externalizing behavior.

The relation of attachment security to multiple domains of psychosocial functioning was examined in a community sample of 167 early adolescents. Security of attachment organization, assessed using the Adult Attachment Interview, was linked to success in establishing autonomy while maintaining a sense of relatedness both with fathers and with peers, even after accounting for predictions from qua...

In memory of my mother and father