background and aim: adolescence is associated with physical and emotional changes and certain tensions which coping with them necessitates the use of cognitive and behavioral strategies called coping styles. since adolescence, peer attachment is developed. secure attachment produces positive outcomes. the purpose of this study was to evaluate the relationship between adolescents’ peer attachmen...

introduction: spiritual identity, defined as self-identification based on spirituality and spiritual experiences, has gained increasing attention during the past few years. the aim of this study was to assess several predictors and outcomes of spiritual identity based on a causal model. methods: for this purpose, parent and peer attachment were considered as exogenous variables, spiritual ident...

Previous studies have emphasized the effect of parent marital conflict on youth's Internet addiction. However, few researchers have examined the mediating role of parent-child attachment and peer attachment between marital conflict and Internet addiction. To fill in this gap, this study aims to examine whether father-child, mother-child, and peer attachment play a mediating role between parent ...

Although a link between attachment and peer relationships has been established, the mechanisms that account for this link have not been identified. The 1st goal of this study was to test emotion regulation as a mediator of this link in middle childhood. The 2nd goal was to examine how different aspects of emotion regulation relate to peer competence. Fifth graders completed self-report and semi...

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...

The main purpose of the study was to examine the moderating role of the insecure mother–child attachment in the relations between social withdraw and peer difficulties. Participants were 487 urban children (247 boys, 240 girls) in elementary schools in Shanghai, the People’s Republic of China. Data on attachment-relevant coping styles in insecure relationships with mother were collected from ch...

BACKGROUND The association between attachment and mental health symptoms in adolescents in a post-conflict low resource setting has not been documented. METHODS We investigated the relationship between parent and peer attachment and posttraumatic stress, depression and anxiety symptoms in a sample of 551 adolescents aged 13-21 years old. Attachment quality was assessed using the Inventory of ...