Attachment to Parents and Aggressiveness in Adopted Adolescents: A Multi‐Sample Comparison Study

• DOI: 10.1111/jora.12463
• Publication Date: 2018-10-31T13:42:50Z
• Authors: Barbara Torres‐Gomez; Itziar Alonso‐Arbiol; Miriam Gallarin
• Keywords: Adolescent; 05 social sciences; Age Factors; aggressiveness; Object Attachment; 3. Good health; Aggression; Adolescent Behavior; Case-Control Studies; Humans; 0501 psychology and cognitive sciences; Self Report; Parent-Child Relations; Child, Adopted; adoption; attachment

This study examined adopted adolescents’ levels of attachment security to parents and aggressiveness as compared those community nonadopted adolescents clinical adolescents. Three different subsamples participated ( n = 262): 101 (48.5% girls), 80 teens (65.0% 81 counterparts (35.8% girls) who in a treatment program for youth with behavioral problems. There were no differences between groups or aggressiveness, whereas showed less more than the other two groups. The implications these results are discussed terms potential healing impact that living adoptive families could have on teenagers’ risk maladaptive outcomes.