TY - JOUR
AU - Vivona, Jeanine M.
AB - Lack of a self-report measure of late adolescent parental attachment style has threatened to hinder expansion of the empirical basis of attachment theory. Two studies were undertaken that provided evidence of validity for a new classification of parental attachment style from patterns of scores on the Inventory of Parent and Peer Attachment (G. C. Armsden & M. T. Greenberg, 1987). Discriminant function analyses differentiated among secure, ambivalent, and avoidant attachment with 2 empirically derived dimensions, which paralleled the essential attachment functions theorized by M. D. S. Ainsworth (1989). Overall, insecurely attached late adolescents reported greater depression, anxiety, and worry than their securely attached counterparts. For women but not for men, insecure attachment was associated with diminished college adjustment and lower intimacy development. These results portend the promise of investigations of parental attachment style to elucidate contributions of parental attachment to late adolescent development and adjustment.
TI - Parental Attachment Styles of Late Adolescents: Qualities of Attachment Relationships and Consequences for Adjustment
JF - Journal of Counseling Psychology
DO - 10.1037/0022-0167.47.3.316
DA - 2000-07-01
UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/american-psychological-association/parental-attachment-styles-of-late-adolescents-qualities-of-attachment-B6DCWA7rHb
SP - 316
EP - 329
VL - 47
IS - 3
DP - DeepDyve
ER -