Developmental changes in adolescent girls' attachment security, social functioning, and psychopathology symptoms in a high-risk community sample

Scott, Lori N and Stepp, Stephanie D and Hipwell, Alison E (2011) Developmental changes in adolescent girls' attachment security, social functioning, and psychopathology symptoms in a high-risk community sample. In: 25th Annual Meeting of the Society for Research in Psychopathology 2011.

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Abstract

The first aim of this study was to examine developmental changes in the quality of girls' attachment to their primary caregiver during adolescence, and to examine baseline predictors of changes in attachment from sociodemographic, parenting, and parent psychopathology factors. The second aim of this study was to examine relations between changes in the quality of girls' attachment to their caregiver and concurrent changes in psychopathology symptoms and social dysfunction during adolescence. There was a significant linear decline in quality of girls' attachment to their primary caregiver from ages 11 to 16. Parenting practices predicted decreases in attachment security, even after controlling for sociodemographic risk factors and parental psychopathology. Lack of secure attachment to caregivers at age 11 and decreases in attachment security from ages 11 to 16 were related to increases in psychopathology symptoms and social dysfunction during the same time period.

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Item Type:	Conference or Workshop Item (UNSPECIFIED)
Creators/Authors:	Creators Email Pitt Username ORCID Scott, Lori N lns26@pitt.edu LNS26 Stepp, Stephanie D stephanie_stepp@pitt.edu SDS36 Hipwell, Alison E aeh5@pitt.edu AEH5
Date:	31 October 2011
Date Type:	Publication
Event Title:	25th Annual Meeting of the Society for Research in Psychopathology 2011
Schools and Programs:	School of Medicine > Psychiatry
Refereed:	No
Additional Information:	Funding: OJJDP, 95-JD-FX-0018 NIDA, DA012237 National Institutes of Health (NIH), MH086713 National Institutes of Health (NIH), MH056630 Competing Interests: No competing interests were disclosed
Date Deposited:	22 Nov 2016 17:43
Last Modified:	31 Jul 2020 16:55
URI:	http://d-scholarship.pitt.edu/id/eprint/30144

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