Impact of parents' marital conflicts on parental attachment and social competence of adolescents

Azam, Atifa; Hanif, Rubina

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“…Furthermore, adolescent satisfaction with mothers and fathers is related to less attachment anxiety (Roberto, Carlyle, Goodall, & Castle, ). Similarly, parental support (e.g., guidance, advice, encouragement, availability) is related to secure adolescent attachment outcomes (e.g., Allen et al., ; Azam & Hanif, ; Mullis, Hill, & Readdick, ). For instance, a recent longitudinal study suggests that increases in support lead to increases in secure attachment from infancy to adolescence (Beijersbergen et al., ).…”

Section: To What Extent Does Attachment Security Change During Adolesmentioning

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Adolescent Attachment Trajectories With Mothers and Fathers: The Importance of Parent–Child Relationship Experiences and Gender

Ruhl

Dolan

Buhrmester

2014

J of Research on Adolesc

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This longitudinal study investigated how attachment with mothers and fathers changes during adolescence, and how gender and parent-child relationship experiences are associated with attachment trajectories. The relative importance of specific positive and negative relationship experiences on attachment trajectories was also examined. An initial sample of 223 adolescents reported on relationship experiences and attachment avoidance and anxiety with mothers and fathers in grades 6, 8, 10, and 12 (final N=110; Mage=11.90 years at onset, SD=.43). Mothers and fathers reported on relationship experiences with adolescents. Hierarchical linear modeling showed that security with parents increased during adolescence. Positive relationship experiences (companionship, satisfaction, approval, support) predicted increases in security and negative experiences (pressure, criticism) predicted decreases in security. Females reported less avoidance than males.

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Section: To What Extent Does Attachment Security Change During Adolesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Adolescent Attachment Trajectories With Mothers and Fathers: The Importance of Parent–Child Relationship Experiences and Gender

Ruhl

Dolan

Buhrmester

2014

J of Research on Adolesc

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“…Specifically, perceived interparental conflict could harm the quality of parental attachment and then adolescents' character strengths, which in turn tends to increase depression symptoms. As mentioned above, the negative effect of interparental conflict would spillover to parent–child interactions and undermine parental attachment quality (Azam & Hanif, 2011; Ying et al, 2018). Relative to securely attached adolescents, adolescents with insecure attachment relationships with parents are biased toward experiencing more negative interpersonal interactions and having poor social skills and low character strengths (Liu & Wang, 2021a; Obeldobel & Kerns, 2020).…”

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Character strengths as a link between family psychosocial environment and depression symptoms among Chinese adolescents

Liu

Wang

2022

Children & Society

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“…Although many studies have focused on the consequences of adolescent attachment [13][14][15]18], it remains important to identify the factors that explain these attachment relationships. Over the last few decades, several authors have examined the associated factors of these attachment relationships using cross-sectional designs e.g., [19][20][21], but only a few have studied the associated factors using a longitudinal study design, which makes it possible to formulate hypotheses about the predictive role of factors measured during childhood on attachment in adolescence, e.g., [22,23]. The significant individual differences observed in attachment relationship quality during adolescence underlie the need to identify these potential predictors.…”

Section: Factors Associated With Attachment Relationship Quality In Adolescencementioning

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“…The use of control, whether positive or negative, parental acceptance/involvement and psychological autonomy-granting have been associated with parent-adolescent attachment relationships [21,24,27,29,30]. Some parent-adolescent relationship characteristics, such as the ability to manage conflict and adolescent idealization of a parent [18,19,22], as well as certain family characteristics, namely the presence of spouse conflicts [20,32] and poverty [22] appear to be associated with the quality of parent-adolescent attachment relationships. The findings of Allen et al [18] suggest that the quality of peer attachment is significantly associated with the quality of parent-adolescent relationships.…”

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Factors Associated with Parent–Adolescent Attachment Relationship Quality: A Longitudinal Study

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Background: Attachment to parents during adolescence has been identified as an important indicator of psychosocial adaptation. However, the relative importance of the adolescents’ behavior problems and the larger relational context likely to influence the quality of these relationships remains relatively underexplored. The present study aims to identify the factors associated with the quality of parent–adolescent attachment relationships and to establish their relative contributions. This study also tested, as a complementary objective, the invariance of the models according to sex. Method: 706 (46.9% girls) early adolescents participated in the study at time 1 and then again, two years later. The individual (e.g., behavior problems or temperament) and contextual (e.g., parents’ behaviors, history of abuse or environment stability) associated factors were measured at time 1, while the quality of the parent–adolescent attachment relationship was measured at time 2. Results: The results showed that a history of emotional abuse, inconsistent discipline, externalized behavior problems and the adolescent’s age were negatively associated with the global attachment security score, while internalized behavior problems and peer attachment were positively associated. These variables explained 15.7% of variance. The results also demonstrated that these variables were also associated with the specific dimensions of attachment (trust, communication, alienation). Discussion: The study demonstrates the importance of several relational variables in the development of the parent–adolescent attachment relationship.

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Impact of parents' marital conflicts on parental attachment and social competence of adolescents

Cited by 10 publications

References 20 publications

Adolescent Attachment Trajectories With Mothers and Fathers: The Importance of Parent–Child Relationship Experiences and Gender

Adolescent Attachment Trajectories With Mothers and Fathers: The Importance of Parent–Child Relationship Experiences and Gender

Character strengths as a link between family psychosocial environment and depression symptoms among Chinese adolescents

Factors Associated with Parent–Adolescent Attachment Relationship Quality: A Longitudinal Study

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