Child Attachment Security and Self-Concept: Associations with Mother and Father Attachment Style and Marital Quality.

Doyle, Anna Beth; Markiewicz, Dorothy; Brendgen, Mara; Lieberman, Melissa; Voss, Kirsten

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ERIC Number: EJ615370

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Publication Date: 2000

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Child Attachment Security and Self-Concept: Associations with Mother and Father Attachment Style and Marital Quality.

Doyle, Anna Beth; Markiewicz, Dorothy; Brendgen, Mara; Lieberman, Melissa; Voss, Kirsten

Merrill-Palmer Quarterly, v46 n3 p514-39 Jul 2000

Predicted children's attachment security and style from parents' report of their style and marital adjustment. Found that mothers' anxious attachment style uniquely predicted children's insecure attachment to both parents and that attachment by parent-child pair differed by self-concept domain for either parent. (DLH)

Descriptors: Adolescents, Attachment Behavior, Foreign Countries, Marital Satisfaction, Parent Attitudes, Parent Child Relationship, Parents, Preadolescents, Predictor Variables, Self Concept, Self Evaluation (Individuals), Spouses, Surveys

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Language: English

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