The relationships among separation-individuation, parental attachment, interpersonal interaction, and epression in adolescents
| Autor: | Min-Ying Wu, 吳明穎 |
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| Rok vydání: | 2007 |
| Druh dokumentu: | 學位論文 ; thesis |
| Popis: | 95 Background and purpose: Usually Adolescence is considered as a developmental stage between childhood and adulthood. In this transition-stage the adolescents face big change, whatever inside or outside. Blos (1979) proposed that there is a second separation-individuation process that occurs during adolescence. They need to reach psychological separation from parent, in order to be independent individuals and adapt well. But Separation doesn’t mean emotionally departing or detaching from parents. Grotevant (1989) noted that when adolescents developing some autonomy from parents and owning continually support and intimacy in parent-adolescent relation, they will develop well. So, how adolescents come to balance at separation-individuation and parental attachments? It is one of the most important tasks in adolescent’s development. There were many studies to investigated the relationship between separation-individuation and parental attachment in the past. But the result were poor because the inventory used had low validity. This study try to investigate their relationship again, by using ‘‘Psychological Separation Inventory’’ that has high reliability and validity, and besides to find the impact of gender and family atmosphere on them. The development of separation-individuation and attachment often influence interpersonal relationship and emotional adaptation, so this study also includes the investigation of their relationship to interpersonal interaction and depression in adolescents. We investigate the relationships among separation-individuation, parental attachment, interpersonal interaction, and depression in adolescents, in order to understand the development in adolescent. Method: The subjects are 478 junior students from six senior high school in Taoyuan county, including 241 male and 237 female. The following self-report materials are gathered in this study: the ‘‘Psychological Separation Inventory’’, the ‘’Inventory of Parental Attachment’’, the ‘’Model of Interpersonal Interaction Inventory’’, and the ‘’Adolescent Depression Inventory’’. We use descriptive statistics, one-way ANOVA, Pearson’s product moment correlation coefficient, stepwise regression analysis, path analysis for data analysis. Results: Separation-individuation, parental attachment, interpersonal interaction, and depression are significant correlated. If the separation-individuation develops well, the parental attachment and the interpersonal interaction will develop well, too. And depression will be rare. Family atmosphere has significant and direct influence on parental attachment. The separation-individuation has great and direct influence on interpersonal interaction and depression. Conclusion: The results of this study extend Blos(1979) and Grotevant(1989)’s view. When the development of adolescents is based on parental attachment, they will develop separation- individuation well, and aid to interpersonal and emotional adjustment in adolescents. For the further research in the future We hope to gather samples from junior high school and college, and to do longitudinal study. In order to understand the development of separation- individuation and attachment in all stage of adolescence. |
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