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Kenny, Maureen E. – Journal of Youth and Adolescence, 1987
The extent and function of the parent-child bond, conceptualized according to Ainsworth's model of attachment, was explored for 173 first-year college students. Students' description of their parental relationships resembled Ainsworth's secure attachment type. Most students viewed their parents as a secure, encouraging, and available source of…
Descriptors: Attachment Behavior, College Freshmen, Factor Analysis, Higher Education
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Kenny, Maureen E.; Rice, Kenneth G. – Counseling Psychologist, 1995
Presents a model--consistent with formulations in developmental psychology and psychopathology--that extends attachment theory to late adolescence. Discusses attachment in the context of life-span development, stress, coping, and adjustment. Favors addressing methodological challenges in order to validate attachment-based developmental and…
Descriptors: Adjustment (to Environment), Adolescents, Affective Behavior, Attachment Behavior