Short Form Version of the Father and Mother Attachment Questionnaire (FMAQ)

Nunes, Filipa; Mota, Catarina Pinheiro; Costa, Moacyr Lobo da; Assunção, Raquel S.; Matos, Paula Mena

doi:10.1007/s10826-019-01672-6

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“…Participants completed the Quality of the Emotional Bond (QEB) and Inhibition of Exploration and Individuality (IEI) subscales of the Father and Mother Attachment Questionnaire – short form (FMAQ; Nunes et al, 2020a ). The QEB subscale assesses the individual’s importance on parents as attachment figures (five items: e.g., “I rely on my parents’ support in difficult moments of my life.”).…”

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Stability and Change in Adolescents’ Sense of Agency: Contributions of Sex, Multiple Risk, Pandemic Stress, and Attachment to Parents

Nunes

Mota

Ferreira

et al. 2023

J Youth Adolescence

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Although literature states that individual, relational, and contextual factors contribute to adolescents’ sense of agency, more research is needed to clarify and understand how adolescents develop this belief over time. The current study examined the stability/change trajectories of the sense of agency during adolescence, specifically across high school, analyzing whether attachment to parents over time, adolescents’ sex, cumulative risk in baseline, and pandemic-related stress explained these trajectories. The sample included 467 Portuguese adolescents (40.7% were males; Mage = 15.58 years, SD = 0.80), evaluated three times across 18 months. This work yielded three significant findings. First, adolescents’ sense of agency significantly increased over time, with significant between-subject variance at the initial levels but not at the growth rate. Second, attachment to parents consistently links to adolescents’ sense of agency across time, despite the differential contributions from attachment to mothers and fathers. Third, boys reported greater growth in the sense of agency than girls. Adolescents’ cumulative risk at T1 predicted lower initial levels of sense of agency, whereas higher pandemic-related stress predicted less growth of the sense of agency. These findings emphasize the contributions of individual and family characteristics and the role of the broader social context in shaping the development of adolescents’ sense of agency. The findings underline the need to consider further the differential influences of adolescents’ relationships with mothers and fathers to understand changes in adolescents’ sense of agency.

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Stability and Change in Adolescents’ Sense of Agency: Contributions of Sex, Multiple Risk, Pandemic Stress, and Attachment to Parents

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Mota

Ferreira

et al. 2023

J Youth Adolescence

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“…Adolescents reported on their attachment representations regarding their father and mother separately by completing two subscales of the Father and Mother Attachment Questionnaire—Short Form (FMAQ; Nunes et al, 2019a): Quality of Emotional Bond (QEB, 5 items) and Inhibition of Exploration and Individuality (IEI, 5 items). QEB refers to the importance given by the individual to the parental figures as attachment figures (“I know I can count on my parents whenever I need them”).…”

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“…Adolescents reported on their attachment representations regarding their father and mother separately by completing two subscales of the Father and Mother Attachment Questionnaire-Short Form (FMAQ; Nunes et al, 2019a): Quality of Emotional Bond This document is copyrighted by the American Psychological Association or one of its allied publishers.…”

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Parental meta-emotion, attachment to parents, and personal agency in adolescents.

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et al. 2022

Journal of Family Psychology

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Guided by attachment theory, we explored in the present study the links between parental emotioncoaching, attachment to parents, and adolescent's sense of agency. Further, we examined a possible mediating role of adolescent's attachment to parents in the association between parental emotion-coaching and sense of agency. All models control for cumulative psychosocial risk, and adolescents' sex and age, and take into account the reports of both mothers and fathers. The sample included 501 Portuguese families comprising adolescents, their mothers, and their fathers. Adolescents (ages ranged from 15 to 18) reported on their attachment to parents, personal agency, and cumulative psychosocial risk, whereas mothers and fathers independently completed a questionnaire assessing their meta-emotion skills. The results indicate that both mothers' and fathers' emotional-coaching are positively associated with the quality of adolescent's attachment to parents. Nonetheless, parental emotion-coaching are not directly associate with sense of agency. The quality of emotional bond with father is linked to a more positive sense of agency, while relationships characterized by mother's inhibition of adolescent's exploration are associated with less positive perceptions of agency. Parental emotion-coaching seems to be associated with the sense of personal agency through the quality of attachment to parents. These results are discussed according to attachment theory taking into account the parents' importance to adolescents' development. Our findings provide a first attempt to unravel the possible links between parental emotion-coaching, attachment to parents, and sense of agency; nevertheless, they need to expand.

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“…The Father and Mother Attachment Questionnaire (FMAQ, Nunes et al, 2019b) was used to assess attachment representations independently for fathers and mothers. This questionnaire includes 15 items distributed in three dimensions: quality of emotional bond (QEB, five items), separation anxiety (SA, five items), and inhibition of exploration and individuality (IEI, five items).…”

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Romantic and parental attachment, psychosocial risk, and personal agency in emerging adulthood

Nunes

Matos

Ferreira

et al. 2021

Journal of Social and Personal Relationships

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This study focuses on emerging adults’ personal agency, an individual feature associated with enhanced adaptive and resilient developmental trajectories. The two objectives were to explore the role of demographic, psychosocial risk, and relational factors in predicting personal agency and analyze whether romantic attachment mediates the connection between parental attachment and personal agency. The sample consisted of 607 Portuguese emerging adults aged between 18 and 30 years. Structural equation modeling results suggest that men are more likely to exhibit higher levels of personal agency than women. Trustful romantic relations and good paternal emotional bonds are associated with greater personal agency, while dependent romantic relations and maternal relations, characterized by inhibition of exploration, are associated with lower personal agency. Moreover, in romantic relations, trust, unlike dependence, partially mediates the association between parental attachment and personal agency. These findings are discussed based on attachment and self-determination theories, considering the importance of secure relationships for agency and autonomy in personal actions. This study provides important evidence for the influencers and mediators of personal agency, contributing to a better understanding of this individual capacity.

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Short Form Version of the Father and Mother Attachment Questionnaire (FMAQ)

Cited by 6 publications

References 43 publications

Stability and Change in Adolescents’ Sense of Agency: Contributions of Sex, Multiple Risk, Pandemic Stress, and Attachment to Parents

Stability and Change in Adolescents’ Sense of Agency: Contributions of Sex, Multiple Risk, Pandemic Stress, and Attachment to Parents

Parental meta-emotion, attachment to parents, and personal agency in adolescents.

Romantic and parental attachment, psychosocial risk, and personal agency in emerging adulthood

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