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The Trait of Attachment and the Effect of Attachment on Social Adjustment of Middle School Students: Parents Intimacy as a Moderator

JIN Can-can1, ZOU Hong1, ZENG Rong1, DOU Dong-hui2   

  1. 1. Institute of Development Psychology, Beijing Normal University, Beijing 100875;
    2. Department of Psychology, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084
  • Online:2010-11-15 Published:2010-11-15

Abstract: 2630 middle school students from six cities participated in current study.Questionnaires were used to explore the situation of attachment,parents intimacy and social adjustment.Findings suggested that(1) mother-child attachment quality are better than father-child attachment quality;the scores of father-child communication,mother-child alienation and father-child alienation of boys are higher than those of girls;parent-child attachment quality decline with grade;(2) The dimensions of parent-child attachment are obviously correlated with the dimensions of social adjustment.The subjects of total attachment security(father-child attachment security and mother-child attachment security) gain the highest scores of the dimensions of positive social adjustment,followed by those of single parent-child attachment security(father-child attachment security and mother-child attachment insecurity,father-child attachment insecurity and mother-child attachment security),and the third are the subjects of total attachment insecurity(father-child attachment insecurity and mother-child attachment insecurity).The opposite happened in the dimensions of negative social adjustment;(3) Parents intimacy can moderate the prediction of attachment on social adjustment.

Key words: middle school students, parent-child attachment, parents intimacy, positive social adjustment, negative social adjustment

CLC Number: 

  • B844.2
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