Parental attachment, divorce and interparental conflict in adolescents

Abstract

This study intends to identify variations in quality of adolescents’ attachment to parents as a function of family structure (intact and divorced families) and interparental conflict. Furthermore, differences according to adolescent’s and parents’s gender were also analysed. The sample consists of 310 adolescents, 14 to 18 aged from both genders. Participants responded to the Father/Mother Attachment Questionnaire (Matos & Costa, 2001, revised version) and the Children’s Perception of Interparental Conflict Scale (Grych, Seid & Fincham, 1992). Both instruments presented adequate psychometrics qualities, tested by confirmatory factor analyses and internal reliability (...)

DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.17575/rpsicol.v22i1.341