Psychological Development and Education ›› 2017, Vol. 33 ›› Issue (3): 361-367.doi: 10.16187/j.cnki.issn1001-4918.2017.03.14

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The Relationships between Parent-child Attachment and Adolescent Anxiety: The Protective Role of Teacher's Support

ZHAO Jinxia1, LI Zhen2   

  1. 1. School of Education, Linyi University, Linyi, 276005;
    2. School of Primary Education, Linyi University, Feixian 273400
  • Online:2017-05-15 Published:2017-05-15

Abstract: The present study examined the associations between parent-child attachment and adolescent anxiety and the protective role of teacher's support, with 306 father-migrant adolescents, 167 parent-migrant adolescents and 288 non-left-behind adolescents. Results are as follows:(1) Parent-migrant adolescents reported lower levels of attachment security with mother and father and higher levels of anxiety compared to father-migrant and non-left-behind adolescents, and the latter two groups did not differ from each other. (2) The increase of attachment security with mother decreased the anxiety of father-migrant adolescents, and the increase of attachment security with father decreased the anxiety of non-left-behind and parent-migrant adolescents. (3) High attachment security with mother could effectively offset the risks for the anxiety of father-migrant adolescents due to low attachment security with father. (4) Teacher's support not only decreased the anxiety of non-left-behind and parent-migrant adolescents but also strengthened the protective role of attachment security with father on the anxiety of father-migrant adolescents.

Key words: anxiety, mother-child attachment, father-child attachment, teacher's support, left-behind adolescent

CLC Number: 

  • B844

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