Explaining the influencing factors of children's choice of attachment style based on parents' dismissive insecure attachment and ambivalent styles

Subject Areas : general Psychology

Fatemeh Babanoori ¹ (PhD Student in Psychology, Department of Psychology, Science and Research Branch, Islamic Azad University, Tehran, Iran)
Reza Rostami ² (PhD in Psychology, Department of Psychology, Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences, University of Tehran, Tehran, Iran)
Mehdi Reza Sarfaraz ³ (PhD in Psychology, Department of Psychology, Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences, Shiraz University, Shiraz, Iran)

Received: 2023-07-24 Accepted : 2023-12-04 Published : 2024-07-21

Keywords: avoidant and ambivalent attachment style, children, insecure, parents ,

Abstract :

Abstract Introduction: Parents' attachment styles have many effects on children's attachment styles. The present study was conducted with the aim of explaining the role of the inhibitory and facilitating factors in parents' insecure, avoidant and ambivalent attachment styles on the choice of children's attachment style. Research Methods: This study was a qualitative research with a theoretical approach. The statistical population of the research included all people aged 25 to 40 who referred to the Atiyeh Clinic in Tehran in 2021, from which 60 people were selected, and then 25 people who had the conditions to enter the research were purposefully selected as a sample. The data were collected simultaneously and analyzed using grounded theory coding method (open, axial and selective). Findings: The results showed that the influencing factors including 38 primary classes, 4 main classes and one central class were extracted in the process of explaining the attachment styles of parents in determining the attachment style of children. The 4 main floors included the sliding bed of security, striving for the integration of body and soul from the path of power, the maze of the path, and the umbrella of support. Conclusion: In order to pay attention to the choice of children's attachment style in a family with two insecure parents, attention should be paid to the components of the sliding bed of security, striving for the integration of body and mind from the path of strength, the twists and turns of the path, and the umbrella of support.

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