A contrastive study of attachment styles and psychological hardiness in parented and unparented adolescents.

Mahmoodi, Hadiseh and Narimani, M. and Zahed, A. and Abolghasemi, A. (2010) A contrastive study of attachment styles and psychological hardiness in parented and unparented adolescents. Other thesis, University of Mohaghegh Ardabili.

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Abstract

This study compared the style of attachment and psychological hardiness in parented and without parented adolescents in the city of Ardabil. For this purpose, from among all high schools a city of Ardebil, 18 schools were selected by cluster sampling method. . Then were selected 150 adolescents (75 girls and 75 boys) by a simple sampling method. Subjects participated in this study with filling out scale of attachment style and questionnaire psychological hardiness. For data analysis was used of two multivariate analysis of variance statistical methods. Results of present research showed that among parented and without parented adolescents, there are differences in type of attachment styles and rate of psychological hardiness. And there was no difference between girls and boys adolescents in type of attachment styles and rate of hardiness. In other words, this showed that parented adolescents had a more secure attachment style and higher rate of psychological hardiness and adolescents without parents, especially adolescents without mother had a more avoidant attachment and ambivalent attachment style and less levels of psychological hardiness. There was no difference between girls and boys adolescents in type of attachment styles and rate of hardiness. Also there was no difference between adolescent's attachment styles and rate of psychological hardiness in interaction with the gender. The findings can deduce that the presence of such parents, especially mother has an important factor in the creation of secure attachment style and increase the rate of hardiness in adolescents. So the mother role will increase in creating children’s mental health.

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