Parent-Child Attachment Measure

Gottfredson and Hirschi’s general theory of crime indicates that low levels of self-control leads to subsequent delinquency. Multiple studies suggest an indirect effect of parent and family factors on delinquency through self-control. Furthermore, evidence exists that race/ethnicity may affect the mediated relationship between parenting and delinquency. The present study collected information on demographics, parent–child attachment, self-control, and delinquency from 350 confined male adolescents. Models were run to test whether self-control mediated the relationship between total parent–child attachment and facets of parent–child attachment on delinquency. Results indicated self-control mediated the relationship between parent attachment and delinquent behavior. Follow-up models indicated uniquely influential pathways to delinquency depending on aspects of parent-child attachment and the race/ethnicity of the participant. Select aspects of parent–child attachment were more meaningfully predictive of self-control and delinquency among African American youth compared with European American youth. Furthermore, while models run with European American adolescents support previous theories and study outcomes on the link between self-control and delinquency, self-control levels did not predict delinquency within models rung with African American adolescents, identifying a possible limitation of self-control theory. Implications from the present study are discussed alongside future directions for continuing research on culturally informed models of self-control and delinquency.

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Associations Between Parental Warmth, Negative Reactions, Parent-Child Attachment, and Children’s Disclosure to Parents: Focusing on Different Domains of Children’s Daily Activities

Korean Journal of Child Studies ◽

10.5723/kjcs.2020.41.5.13 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 41 (5) ◽

pp. 13-30

Author(s):

Hyesun Choi ◽

Sae-Young Han

Keyword(s):

Daily Activities ◽

Parental Warmth ◽

Child Attachment ◽

Parent Child

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Creating a Safe Haven for Children: The Effect of Parent-Child Attachment and Parenting Strategy on Children’s Risk Perceptions to Climate Change

10.21203/rs.3.rs-285242/v1 ◽

2021 ◽

Author(s):

Shuang Zhong ◽

Qiu Cheng ◽

Guangyuan Jia ◽

Kinglun Ngok

Keyword(s):

Climate Change ◽

Parenting Styles ◽

Family Relationships ◽

Primary Schools ◽

Risk Perceptions ◽

Least Square ◽

Climate Change Risk ◽

Positive Effects ◽

Child Attachment ◽

Parent Child

Abstract Children’s climate change risk perceptions including their attitudes and mitigation behaviors, which are crucial to protect themselves from the consequence of climate extremes. However, recent studies have not identified the complex interplay effects between children’s climate change risk perceptions and their family relationships. This study explored the effects of parent-child attachment, parenting strategies as well as their co-influence on children’s risk perceptions to cope with climate changes through investigating a pilot disaster education program in China. Data was collected from 1,710 children aged 8–12 in 45 primary schools in Sichuan Province in 2018. We used Ordinary Least Square Regression and Principal Component Analysis to evaluate the effects of parent-child attachment, different parenting styles and their co-influencing mechanism on children’s risk perceptions. The results found that frequent parent-children interactions had significantly positive effects on children’s risk perceptions, and these effects were more significant in the single-raised children than the children raised by two parents. We further established a conceptual framework for understanding the different parent-child attachment patterns for children’s climate change risk perception based on a mathematical quadrant between frequent parent-child interactions and available attached figures, and found children’s risk perceptions are varied attributed to different patterns of parent-child attachment. Theoretical implications related to climate change and practical implications for family and community mitigation were discussed.

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Early Attachment to Mothers and Fathers: Contributions to Preschoolers' Emotional Regulation

Frontiers in Psychology ◽

10.3389/fpsyg.2021.660866 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 12 ◽

Author(s):

Carla Fernandes ◽

Marilia Fernandes ◽

António J. Santos ◽

Marta Antunes ◽

Lígia Monteiro ◽

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Keyword(s):

Emotion Regulation ◽

Emotional Regulation ◽

Attachment Security ◽

Peer Group ◽

Empirical Studies ◽

Nuclear Families ◽

Attachment Relationships ◽

Preschool Classrooms ◽

Child Attachment ◽

Parent Child

Children acquire and develop emotional regulatory skills in the context of parent-child attachment relationships, nonetheless empirical studies have focused mainly on mother and less information is available regarding the role of both parent-child attachment relationships. Furthermore, despite its importance, there is no information regarding preschool years. This study aims to fill this gap by exploring the potential influences of both mother-child and father-child attachments on preschooler's later emotion regulation observed in the peer group. Fifty-three Portuguese nuclear families (mother, father and focal child) participated in the study; 47% of the children were boys and 53% were girls. Attachment Security was assessed at home using the Attachment Behavior Q-set when children were 3 years of age, and emotion regulation was observed in the preschool classrooms attended by the children at age 5, using the California child Q-sort to derive an Emotion Regulation Q-Scale. Results showed that the combined influence of both parent-child attachment security predicted better emotion regulation results, than did the specific contributions of each parent per se. Findings are consistent with integrative approaches that highlight the value of including both mother- and father-child attachment relationships, as well as their combined effect, when studying emotion regulation.

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