Adolescents’ multiple versus single primary attachment figures, reorganization of attachment hierarchy, and adjustments : the important people interview approach

Result code in IS VaVaI

<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F00216224%3A14230%2F18%3A00100908" target="_blank" >RIV/00216224:14230/18:00100908 - isvavai.cz</a>

Result on the web

<a href="https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/14616734.2018.1464040" target="_blank" >https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/14616734.2018.1464040</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/14616734.2018.1464040" target="_blank" >10.1080/14616734.2018.1464040</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Adolescents’ multiple versus single primary attachment figures, reorganization of attachment hierarchy, and adjustments : the important people interview approach

Original language description

Using 212 adolescents from a central-European country (mean age = 14.02, SD = 2.05, ranged from 11 to 18 years; females = 54%) and a multi-informant method to measure adolescents’ behavioral and emotional adjustments, the present study explored three aspects regarding the attachment hierarchy. (1) The three types of behavioral systems of Rosenthal and Kobak’s important people interview (IPI) were initially validated using an exploratory factor analysis with a US sample. Using a confirmatory factor analysis with a Czech sample, we replicated these three behavioral systems: attachment bond, support seeking, and affiliation. (2) We found that adolescents who developed attachment bond to multiple primary attachment figures were likely to score lower on both teacher-rated and parent-rated internalizing problems compared to those who had a single primary attachment figure. These multiple primary attachment figures tended to be family members (not peers). (3) Early adolescents who placed parents low in their attachment hierarchy scored higher on self-reported negative affect and lower on self-reported positive affect compared to early adolescents who placed parents high. The present study highlights multiple (vs. single) primary attachment figures as a protective factor and the premature reorganization of attachment hierarchy as a risk factor for adolescents’ emotional and affective adjustments.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_imp - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

50101 - Psychology (including human - machine relations)

Project

<a href="/en/project/GA16-03059S" target="_blank" >GA16-03059S: The development of adolescent relationships: Using an attachment theory perspective, a dynamic systems approach, and a time-series method</a><br>

Continuities

P - Projekt vyzkumu a vyvoje financovany z verejnych zdroju (s odkazem do CEP)

Publication year

2018

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Attachment & Human Development

ISSN

1461-6734

e-ISSN

1469-2988

Volume of the periodical

20

Issue of the periodical within the volume

5

Country of publishing house

GB - UNITED KINGDOM

Number of pages

21

Pages from-to

532-552

UT code for WoS article

000452154300005

EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-85045771406