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Maternal adult attachment and mother-adolescent attachment: the chain mediating role of marital satisfaction and harsh parenting

This study explored the relationship between maternal adult attachment and mother-adolescent attachment based on the attachment theory and spillover hypothesis of family systems theory. A survey research was conducted on 992 mothers and adolescents using a convenience sampling method. A survey resea...

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Autores principales: Li, Mengge, Gong, Huoliang, Zhang, Huiying, Chen, Yuping, Zhang, Chenze
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Frontiers Media S.A. 2023
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10319057/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37409160
http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyt.2023.1170137
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author Li, Mengge
Gong, Huoliang
Zhang, Huiying
Chen, Yuping
Zhang, Chenze
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description This study explored the relationship between maternal adult attachment and mother-adolescent attachment based on the attachment theory and spillover hypothesis of family systems theory. A survey research was conducted on 992 mothers and adolescents using a convenience sampling method. A survey research was conducted on 992 Chinese mothers and adolescents using a convenience sampling method. The results indicated that (1) maternal adult attachment avoidance and anxiety were significantly negatively related to maternal marital satisfaction and mother-adolescent attachment, and significantly positively related to maternal harsh parenting; maternal adult attachment anxiety was a significant direct predictor of mother-adolescent attachment; (2) Maternal marital satisfaction and maternal harsh parenting mediated the significant effect between maternal adult attachment and mother-adolescent attachment, specifically pathways contained three: a separate mediating effect of maternal marital satisfaction, a separate mediating effect of maternal harsh parenting, and a chain mediating effect of maternal marital satisfaction and maternal harsh parenting. The findings suggest that maternal adult attachment, marital satisfaction, and harsh parenting behaviors can have significant effects on adolescents’ mother-adolescent attachment.
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spelling pubmed-103190572023-07-05 Maternal adult attachment and mother-adolescent attachment: the chain mediating role of marital satisfaction and harsh parenting Li, Mengge Gong, Huoliang Zhang, Huiying Chen, Yuping Zhang, Chenze Front Psychiatry Psychiatry This study explored the relationship between maternal adult attachment and mother-adolescent attachment based on the attachment theory and spillover hypothesis of family systems theory. A survey research was conducted on 992 mothers and adolescents using a convenience sampling method. A survey research was conducted on 992 Chinese mothers and adolescents using a convenience sampling method. The results indicated that (1) maternal adult attachment avoidance and anxiety were significantly negatively related to maternal marital satisfaction and mother-adolescent attachment, and significantly positively related to maternal harsh parenting; maternal adult attachment anxiety was a significant direct predictor of mother-adolescent attachment; (2) Maternal marital satisfaction and maternal harsh parenting mediated the significant effect between maternal adult attachment and mother-adolescent attachment, specifically pathways contained three: a separate mediating effect of maternal marital satisfaction, a separate mediating effect of maternal harsh parenting, and a chain mediating effect of maternal marital satisfaction and maternal harsh parenting. The findings suggest that maternal adult attachment, marital satisfaction, and harsh parenting behaviors can have significant effects on adolescents’ mother-adolescent attachment. Frontiers Media S.A. 2023-06-20 /pmc/articles/PMC10319057/ /pubmed/37409160 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyt.2023.1170137 Text en Copyright © 2023 Li, Gong, Zhang, Chen and Zhang. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) and the copyright owner(s) are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.
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Li, Mengge
Gong, Huoliang
Zhang, Huiying
Chen, Yuping
Zhang, Chenze
Maternal adult attachment and mother-adolescent attachment: the chain mediating role of marital satisfaction and harsh parenting
title Maternal adult attachment and mother-adolescent attachment: the chain mediating role of marital satisfaction and harsh parenting
title_full Maternal adult attachment and mother-adolescent attachment: the chain mediating role of marital satisfaction and harsh parenting
title_fullStr Maternal adult attachment and mother-adolescent attachment: the chain mediating role of marital satisfaction and harsh parenting
title_full_unstemmed Maternal adult attachment and mother-adolescent attachment: the chain mediating role of marital satisfaction and harsh parenting
title_short Maternal adult attachment and mother-adolescent attachment: the chain mediating role of marital satisfaction and harsh parenting
title_sort maternal adult attachment and mother-adolescent attachment: the chain mediating role of marital satisfaction and harsh parenting
topic Psychiatry
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10319057/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37409160
http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyt.2023.1170137
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