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- Title
Sex-specific relationships among attachment security, social values, and sensation seeking in early adolescence: Implications for adolescents’ externalizing problem behaviour
- Authors
Sarracino, Diego; Presaghi, Fabio; Degni, Silvia; Innamorati, Marco
- Abstract
Abstract: In early adolescence, attachment security reflects not only the quality of ongoing relationships with parents, but also how adolescents process social relationships with “others” – that is, their “social value orientation” – with possible implications for adolescents’ risk-taking. In this study, a sample of Italian early adolescents were administered self-report measures in order to examine the relationships (a) between early adolescents’ perceived attachment security to mothers and fathers, social values (related to family and the socio-cultural context), and sensation seeking (as a temperamental predisposition to risk-taking), and (b) between these variables and adolescents’ externalizing problem behaviour. Adolescents were more securely attached to the same-sexed parent. Further, attachment security with the opposite-sexed parent predicted more conservative social value orientations, and lower levels of problem behaviour. In contrast, sensation seeking predicted self-enhancement and openness-to-change values to a greater extent, and, in girls, lower levels of attachment security to mothers and fathers.
- Subjects
ATTACHMENT behavior in adolescence; SOCIAL values; SOCIAL security; SENSATION seeking; PARENT-teenager relationships; INTERPERSONAL relations; RISK-taking behavior; ADOLESCENT psychology
- Publication
Journal of Adolescence, 2011, Vol 34, Issue 3, p541
- ISSN
0140-1971
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1016/j.adolescence.2010.05.013