Sex-specific relationships among attachment security, social values, and sensation seeking in early adolescence: Implications for adolescents’ externalizing problem behaviour

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• 作者：Diego Sarracino^a ; ^{diego.sarracino@unimib.it"" rel=""nofollow} ; Fabio Presaghi^b ; ^{fabio.presaghi@uniroma1.it"" rel=""nofollow} ; Silvia Degni^c ; ^{silvia.degni@uniroma1.it"" rel=""nofollow} ; Marco Innamorati^d ; ^{innamorati@gmail.com"" rel=""nofollow}
• 关键词：Attachment ; Social values ; Sensation seeking ; Externalizing problem behaviour ; Early adolescence
• 刊名：Journal of Adolescence
• 出版年：2011
• 出版时间：June 2011
• 年：2011
• 卷：34
• 期：3
• 页码：541-554
• 全文大小：279 K

文摘

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.