Effect Of Parental Attachement On The Peer Relations Among Adolescents
Adolescence is a time of transition between childhood and adulthood. A time for testing limits, for breaking dependent ties and for establishing a new identity. Child’s attributes in attachment style develop through interactions with parental figures—confident, avoidant and ambivalent. A child with appropriate and consistent responding parents becomes confident. The child becomes secure, investing resources in self-development. In the contrast, a child with unreliable and inconsistent parents will divert its energies from development to lessen distressing interactions and manage dissatisfaction due to unmet needs. The child becomes avoidant; it limits itself for demands of nurturance, the child develops pseudo-self reliance, and explores the world alone. Meanwhile, a child whose parents tend to neglect dependency and interfere with independence becomes ambivalent. The child is unable to find either a comfortable attachment or avoidance from parents; its attachment needs are consistently evoked and frustrated. Thus, differences in attachment style show the individual’s ability to use the attachment relationship in security and independent functioning.
Statement of the Problem
There are factors that affect how an individual interacts with other people, and such peer relationship of adolescents is affected by the different types of parental attachment. The purpose of the study is to determine what kind of relationship the child will form in the future, with parental attachment as the basis. One will be able to understand the different attachment styles that affect the adolescents. At the end of this study the following questions shall be answered:
1. How will parental attachment affects peer relations of adolescent?
2. Second, what specific type of parental attachment is necessary to bring about positive peer relations?
3. Why does insecurely attached adolescent cannot form intimate relationships?
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