Primary Attachment to Parents and Peers during Adolescence: Differences by Attachment Style

By Harry Freeman, B. Brown. 2001

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Subfields: Clinical Psychology, Demography, Social Psychology

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Attachment Relationships and Life Satisfaction During Emerging Adulthood (2015, background): “However, given that mothers generally constitute the primary attachment figure upon whom individuals principally rely for meeting attachment needs across the developmental years (Freeman and Brown 2001; Haigler et al. 1995), we expected to find a stronger indirect effect, via peer attachment, betwee”
Parent and Peer Attachment in Late Childhood and Early Adolescence (2005, background): “Both Fraley and Davis (1997) and Freeman and Brown (2001) extended the findings of Hazan and Zeifman (1994) by assessing the extent to which individual attachment styles and working models of relationships were associated with using peers as attachment figures.”
Intimacy in adolescent friendship: The roles of attachment, coherence, and self-disclosure (2008, background): “This may not undermine attachment to parents (Ainsworth, 1989; Buhrmester, 1996), however attachment to peers may become as prominent as parental attachments (Ainsworth, 1989; Bowlby, 1982; Freeman & Brown, 2001), with both parents and friends being identified as primary attachment figures.”
Developmental Differences in Adolescents’ and Young Adults’ Use of Mothers, Fathers, Best Friends, and Romantic Partners to Fulfill Attachment Needs (2006, background): “For a late adolescent sample (M = 17 years), Freeman and Brown (2001) found using a projective measure, that general attachment style (i.e., quality of attachment to close others in general, rather than to a specific target) predicted choice of primary attachment figures.”
Depressive Symptoms, Stress, and Support: Gendered Trajectories From Adolescence to Young Adulthood (2006, background): “Youth with secure attachments to parents typically rate support from mothers and fathers as more important than support from peers or romantic partners ( Freeman and Brown, 2001 ).”
Rethinking the biopsychosocial model of health: Understanding health as a dynamic system (2017, unknown): “His microsystem focus shifts from being primarily reliant on his parents to primarily reliant on his friends, a common occurrence in insecurely attached youth (Freeman & Brown, 2001).”
Attachment Representations and Time Perspective in Adolescence (2009, background): “Although a person typically has more than one attachment figure, a hierarchy of attachment exists such that attachment behaviors are usually directed toward a principal attachment figure (Freeman and Brown 2001).”