Parental Attachment Style: Examination of Links with Parent Secure Base Provision and Adolescent Secure Base Use

dc.contributor.authorJones, Jason D.
dc.contributor.authorCassidy, Jude
dc.date.accessioned2022-03-09T16:40:59Z
dc.date.available2022-03-09T16:40:59Z
dc.date.issued2014-06-05
dc.descriptionThis is an Accepted Manuscript of an article published by Taylor & Francis in Attachment & Human Development on June 5, 2014, available online: https://doi.org/10.1080/14616734.2014.921718 .en_US
dc.description.abstractThe secure base construct represents one of attachment theory’s most important contributions to our understanding of parent–child relationships and child development. The present study represents the first examination of how parents’ self-reported attachment styles relate to parental secure base provision and adolescent (mean age = 16.6 years, SE = .59) secure base use during an observed parent–adolescent interaction. Further, the present study is the first to examine how fathers’, as well as mothers’, attachment styles relate to observed behavior in a parent–child interaction. At the bivariate level, maternal avoidance, but not anxiety, was negatively associated with observed adolescent secure base use. In addition, path analysis revealed that maternal avoidance was indirectly related to less adolescent secure base use through mothers’ self-reported hostile behavior toward their adolescents and through adolescents’ less positive perceptions of their mothers. Further, paternal anxiety, but not avoidance, was indirectly related to less adolescent secure base use through fathers’ self-reported hostile behavior toward their adolescents. No significant findings emerged in relation to parental secure base provision. We discuss these results in the context of attachment theory and suggest directions for future research.en_US
dc.description.urihttps://doi.org/10.1080/14616734.2014.921718
dc.identifierhttps://doi.org/10.13016/g2n5-8wui
dc.identifier.citationJason D. Jones & Jude Cassidy (2014) Parental attachment style: examination of links with parent secure base provision and adolescent secure base use, Attachment & Human Development, 16:5, 437-461.en_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1903/28542
dc.language.isoen_USen_US
dc.publisherTaylor & Francisen_US
dc.relation.isAvailableAtCollege of Behavioral & Social Sciencesen_us
dc.relation.isAvailableAtPsychologyen_us
dc.relation.isAvailableAtDigital Repository at the University of Marylanden_us
dc.relation.isAvailableAtUniversity of Maryland (College Park, MD)en_us
dc.subjectattachment styleen_US
dc.subjectparentingen_US
dc.subjectadolescenceen_US
dc.subjectsecure baseen_US
dc.subjectperceptions of parentsen_US
dc.titleParental Attachment Style: Examination of Links with Parent Secure Base Provision and Adolescent Secure Base Useen_US
dc.typeArticleen_US

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