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    The Impact of Mothers' Attachment Style on their Children's Psychopathology and its Interconnectedness with Perceived Security in Parents
    (2010) Chedid, Carla
    Attachment style of humans could explain a wide variety of their personality traits, especially behavioral maladjustments. The purpose of the study was to determine the effect of attachment style of mothers on the exhibition of externalizing and internalizing behaviors in their children. Further investigations were done to verify how children behave when they perceive their parents as an insecure attachment figure and if this perceived security will be associated to the mother attachment style. The sample was composed of 139 mothers and their adolescents' children. Mothers completed a revised version of the Attachment Style Questionnaire and the Children behavioral Checklist. Adolescents completed the Inventory of Parent and Peer attachment. Findings supported that children of fearful and preoccupied mothers have exhibited internalizing and externalizing behaviors. In addition, perceived security in parents affects adolescents' behaviors.