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Insecure Attachment and Career Indecision: Mediating Effects of Anxiety and Pessimism
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Braunstein-Bercovitz, Hedva; Benjamin, Benny A.; Asor, Shiri; Lev, Maya – Journal of Vocational Behavior, 2012
The purpose of this study was to examine a theoretically-based model in which insecure attachment is related to career indecision through the mediation of negative emotions. Two hundred college students completed questionnaires measuring anxious and avoidant dimensions of insecure attachment, negative emotions (trait and career-choice anxiety,…
Descriptors: Career Choice, Psychological Patterns, Security (Psychology), Attachment Behavior
Adolescent Substance Use: The Role of Demographic Marginalization and Socioemotional Distress
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Benner, Aprile D.; Wang, Yijie – Developmental Psychology, 2015
We investigated the links between racial/ethnic marginalization (i.e., having few same-race/ethnic peers at school) and adolescents' socioemotional distress and subsequent initiation of substance use (alcohol and marijuana) and substance use levels. Data from 7,731 adolescents (52% female; 55% White, 21% African American, 16% Latino, 8% Asian…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Substance Abuse, Depression (Psychology), Symptoms (Individual Disorders)
Fathers' Coping Resources and Children's Socioemotional Adjustment among Children with Learning Disabilities
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Al-Yagon, Michal – Journal of Learning Disabilities, 2011
This study examined a cumulative model of vulnerability and protective factors at the individual level (children's attachment relationships with father and children's sense of coherence) and at the family level as manifested by fathers' coping resources (fathers' sense of coherence, fathers' active and avoidant coping strategies) in helping to…
Descriptors: Learning Disabilities, Attachment Behavior, Coping, Path Analysis
Testing an Attachment Model of Latina/o College Students' Psychological Adjustment
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Garriott, Patton O.; Love, Keisha M.; Tyler, Kenneth M.; Thomas, Deneia M.; Roan-Belle, Clarissa R.; Brown, Carrie L. – Hispanic Journal of Behavioral Sciences, 2010
The present study examined the influence of attachment relationships on the psychological adjustment of Latina/o university students (N = 80) attending predominantly White institutions of higher education. A path analysis conducted to test a hypothesized model of parent and peer attachment, self-esteem, and psychological distress indicated that…
Descriptors: Universities, Attachment Behavior, Path Analysis, Psychology
Perfectionism in High-Ability Students: Relational Precursors and Influences on Achievement Motivation
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Speirs Neumeister, Kristie L.; Finch, Holmes – Gifted Child Quarterly, 2006
The purpose of the present study was to create and test a model that (a) illustrated variables influencing the development of perfectionism, and (b) demonstrated how different types of perfectionism may influence the achievement goals of high-ability students. Using a multiple groups path analysis, the researchers found that parenting style was…
Descriptors: Academic Ability, Academic Achievement, Achievement Need, Models
Recurrent Otitis Media and Attachment Security: A Path Model.
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McCallum, Michelle S.; McKim, Margaret K. – Early Education and Development, 1999
Used regular telephone interviews over six months to examine processes through which recurrent episodes of otitis media influence children's attachment security. Found that recurrent otitis media negatively affected attachment security by increasing mothers' perceptions of their children as behaving more negatively. Parenting stress was not…
Descriptors: Attachment Behavior, Child Behavior, Interviews, Longitudinal Studies