Parent and Peer Attachment in Late Childhood and Early Adolescence

Pathways to self-esteem in late adolescence: the role of parent and peer attachment, empathy, and social behaviours.

The goal of this study was to examine both the direct and indirect relations of parent and peer attachment with self-esteem and to examine the potential mediating roles of empathy and social behaviour. 246 college students (M age = 18.6 years, S.D. = 1.61) completed self-report measures of parent and peer attachment, empathy, social behaviour, and self-esteem. Structural equation modelling reve...

Peer influences on moral disengagement in late childhood and early adolescence.

Moral disengagement processes are cognitive self-justification processes of transgressive actions that have been hypothesized to be learned and socialized within social contexts. The current study aimed at investigating socialization of moral disengagement by friends in two developmentally different age groups, namely late childhood (age: 9-10 years; n = 133, 42.9% girls) and early adolescence ...

Pathological attachment and attachment style in late adolescence.

Attachment theory is frequently invoked to account for patterns of adaptation within relationships. West and Sheldon derived a measure of dysfunctional adult attachment from Bowlby's theory. Four patterns are identified: compulsive self-reliance; caregiving; care-seeking; and angry withdrawal. The aim of this study was to assess the psychometric properties of this promising measure, and to asse...

Middle Childhood and Early Adolescence

Dysfunctional Individuation in Early and Late Adolescence

Separation-individuation is a developmental process through which individuals renegotiate self-other boundaries. Although this process is thought to be critically engaged in the first years of life, it is generally agreed that adolescence and young adulthood constitute a “second phase” wherein these issues are renegotiated in light of the developmental tasks common to this age period (Blos, 196...