Predicting Social Skills in Single Child Adolescents based on Attachment Styles and Creativity: The Mediating Role of Moral Intelligence

Abstract

The aim of this research was predicting social skills in single child adolescents based on attachment styles and creativity with mediating role of moral intelligence. Methodology: This was a cross-sectional study from type of correlation. The research population was 3957 single child adolescent students in areas one to three of Tehran city in 2019-2020 academic years. Based on Cochran's formula, the sample size was estimated 350 people who were selected by multi-stage cluster sampling method. To collect data used from the questionnaires of social skills (Inderbitzen & Foster, 1992), attachment styles (Hazan & Shaver, 1987), creativity (Torrance, 1992) and moral intelligence (Lennick & Kiel, 2005). Data were analyzed by structural equation modeling method from type of path analysis in LISREL software version 8.8. Findings: The findings showed that secure attachment and creativity had a direct and significant effect on moral intelligence and social skills, avoidant and ambivalent insecure attachments had a direct and significant effect on moral intelligence and social skills and moral intelligence had a direct and significant effect on social skills. Also, secure, insecure avoidant and insecure ambivalent attachments, avoidant and ambivalent insecure attachments and creativity with mediating role of moral intelligence had an indirect and significant effect on social skills (P<0.05). The model had a good fit and moral intelligence was a good mediator between attachment styles and creativity with social skills. Conclusion:According to the results, to improve social skills can be increased the rate of secure attachment style, creativity and moral intelligence and decreased the rate of avoidant and ambivalent insecure attachment styles.

The Mediating Role of Attachment Styles in the Relationship of Parent-child Relationship and Parenting Styles With Children’s Behavioral Problems After Divorce

“…Additionally, the existence of avoidant and secure attachment styles has been shown to lessen the effects of permissive and authoritarian parenting styles. This occurs by mediating the complex interactions between parent-child relationships and parenting styles, ultimately resulting in a decrease in behavioral issues among children, while maintaining the effect of parent-child relationships and authoritative parenting styles on reducing behavioral issues after divorce to neutralize the increase in behavioral issues after divorce [31][32][33][34].…”

“…These children have a positive outlook on communication with their peers and anticipate positive responses. In contrast, children with insecure attachments may have parents who either reject them or respond inconsistently, both of which can harm their social relationships with peers [33].…”

Examining the Relationship between Mother-Child Attachment Styles and Creativity

“…When the literature is examined, studies on the effect of attachment styles on creativity are limited (Aslan & İmamoğlu, 2009;Backes, 2000;Černe et al, 2018;Esmaeliy & Sheikholeslami, 2018;Hosseinikhah & Vahedian, 2011;Kirrane et al, 2019;Malekzadeh et al, 2020). Considering that creativity emerges as a result of interaction and relationships with others, different attachment styles may affect the nature of creativity.…”

“…The need to examine the relationship between attachment styles and creativity and the studies conducted in the literature for university students (Esmaeliy & Sheikholeslami, 2018;Hosseinikhah & Vahedian, 2011) or adults in working life (Černe et al, 2018;Kirrane et al, 2019;Malekzadeh et al, 2020) created the gap in evaluating the relationship between the attachment styles of younger children and their creativity. This study aims to contribute to the literature in this field by analyzing the connection between the creativity of pupils aged 7-11 and their attachment styles.…”