Sex, Parent Attachment, Emotional Adjustment, and Risk-Taking Behaviors

Running head: ANXIETY SENSITIVTY AND RISK-TAKING BEHAVIORS Dowd 1 Anxiety Sensitivity and Risk-Taking Behaviors

Teenagers, sex, and risk taking.

This study provides a baseline examination of teenage sexual relationships in 1991 in a sample drawn from 9 state and independent schools in southwest England; a follow up was conducted in 1992. 1025 students in year 11 and aged 15-16 responded in 1991; the follow up in 1992 showed 315 returning the questionnaire. Information was requested on knowledge of sexually transmitted diseases (STDs),...

Attachment and Risk Taking: Are They Interrelated?

Attachment theory focuses on the bond that develops between child and caretaker and the consequences that this bond has on the child’s future relationships. Adolescents attempt to define their identity by experiencing various risky behaviors. The first aim of the study was whether risk taking behavior differs according to attachment styles. The second was to examine risk taking behavior differe...

Mothers' and fathers' perceptions of child deviance: roles of parent and child behaviors and parent adjustment.

The mothers (n = 120) and fathers (n = 85) of children with conduct problems (ages = 3-8 years) completed two measures of child adjustment (Child Behavior Checklist, Eyberg Child Behavior Inventory), three personal adjustment measures (Beck Depression Inventory, Marital Adjustment Test, Parenting Stress Index), and a Life Experience Survey and were observed at home interacting with their childr...

The Impact of Child - Parent Attachment , Attachment to God and Religious Orientation on Psychological Adjustment

114 A n ongoing issue for the psychology of religion is the complex relationship between religion and psychological adjustment. Psychological adjustment has been described as an umbrella construct with various cognitive and affective dimensions such as life satisfaction, positive affect, happiness, congruence between expected and achieved life goals, absence of symptoms, a positive sense of wel...