Early Adolescent Attachment to Parents, Emotional Problems, and Teacher-Academic Worries about the Middle School Transition

Autor/inn/en	Duchesne, Stephane; Ratelle, Catherine F.; Poitras, Sarah-Caroline; Drouin, Evelyne
Titel	Early Adolescent Attachment to Parents, Emotional Problems, and Teacher-Academic Worries about the Middle School Transition
Quelle	In: Journal of Early Adolescence, 29 (2009) 5, S.743-766 (24 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0272-4316
DOI	10.1177/0272431608325502
Schlagwörter	Emotional Problems; Middle Schools; Mothers; Structural Equation Models; Early Adolescents; Grade 6; Depression (Psychology); Anxiety; Attachment Behavior; Parent Child Relationship; Fathers; Predictor Variables; Elementary School Students; Student Adjustment; Foreign Countries; French; Gender Differences; Correlation; Family Structure; Canada; Childrens Depression Inventory + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Middle school; Mittelschule; Mittelstufenschule; Mother; Mutter; School year 06; 6. Schuljahr; Schuljahr 06; Angst; Attachment; Bindungsverhalten; Parents-child relationship; Parent-child-relation; Parent-child relationship; Eltern-Kind-Beziehung; Prädiktor; Student; Students; Adjustment; Schüler; Schülerin; Studentin; Adaptation; Ausland; Französisch; Geschlechterkonflikt; Korrelation; Familienkonstellation; Familiensystem; Kanada
Abstract	This study examines how attachment to mother and father predicts worries about academic demands and relationships with teachers generated by the transition from elementary to middle school through its contribution to adolescents' emotional problems (depression and anxiety). The study sample includes 626 young adolescents (289 boys and 337 girls) in sixth grade who completed the Security Scale to assess security of attachment to their mothers and fathers. The results of analyses based on structural equation modeling showed that attachment to mother predicts adolescents' teacher-academic worries about the middle school transition through anxiety symptoms. These results are discussed in light of the literature on attachment theory, emotional problems during adolescence, and the context of the middle school transition. (Contains 2 tables and 2 figures.) (As Provided).
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Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2017/4/10