Connectedness and autonomy support in the parent-child relationship are constructs that emerge from object relations and attachment theories but that overlap with other commonly studied qualities of parent-child relationships to provide a unifying focus for research in this domain. In this study, these constructs were examined in relation to children's relational competence, including socioemot...

Research examined the relative importance of peer groups for young adolescents as compared with diverse adult socialization agents--family, school, and community. The factors involved were teenagers' activities, preferences, feelings, and thoughts as to how they spend their leisure time, their preferences for help providers, and their sense of attachment to their community. These comparisons we...

The present study aimed to investigate the role of attachment styles and gender among different online addictions (social media addiction, gaming internet addiction) adolescents young adults via an survey. participants comprised 943 Iranian students (440 females) selected by multi-stage cluster sampling. survey included nine-item form Problematic Internet Use Questionnaire (Laconi et al., 2019)...