This study is targeted on the high grade elementary school students in Kaohsiung City¡Aand aims to look into the relation of parenting styles¡Aattachment relationship¡Aand life adjustment . Based on the discussion on relevant literatures,the theory,framework,and research tools adoptted in the research are thus developted.In this research, 1160 elementary school students are targeted to fill in this questionnaires and 1058 effetcive questionnaires are acquired.The research tools consist of ¡§Parenting Styles Scale¡¨, ¡§Attachment Relationship Scale¡¨, and ¡§Life Adjustment Scale¡¨.The effective samplings are analyzed by t-test, One-way ANOVA, Pearson Product¡Ðmoment Correlation and ,Multiple Regression. The conclusions are as follows: 1. The whole performance of the elementary school students¡¦ parenting styles is good.Among the sectional scores,the dimension of demands is the highest. 2. The whole performance of the elementary school students¡¦ attachment relationship is good.Among the sectional scores, the dimension of alienation is the highest. 3. The whole performance of the elementary school students¡¦ life adjustment is good.Among the sectional scores, the dimension of family¡¦s adjustment is the highest. 4. The students of the fifth grade¡Atwo parents family¡Amiddle SES have a higher sense of the awareness of the parenting styles . 5. The girls,the fifth grade¡Amiddle SES have a higher sense of the awareness of the attachment relationship . 6. The girls,the fifth grade¡Ahigh and middle SES have a higher sense of the awareness of the life adjustment . 7. The clearer the students¡¦ parenting styles will be,the better attachment relationship will be. 8. The clearer the students¡¦ parenting styles will be,the better life adjustment will be. 9. The clearer the students¡¦ attachment relationship will be,the better life adjustment will be. 10. Students¡¦ backgrounds, parenting styles and attachment relationship have predicative efficacy for students¡¦ life adjustment. ¡§Mother¡¦s trust ¡¨can predict students¡¦ life adjustment best.

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It has only been within the past two decades that a new etiological model of sex offending has emerged that embraces attachment theory in order to provide a more comprehensive understating of how early attachment disruptions may contribute to sexually aggressive behavior. Although there is much theoretical support for the insecure attachment-sex offending paradigm, very little work has been done in the area of empirical validation. Furthermore, the majority of the research that has been conducted in this area focuses on adult offenders and primarily relies on self-report measures of attachment. Therefore, this study examined patterns of attachment in a sample of juvenile sex offenders utilizing a projective instrument, The Adult Attachment Projective Picture System (AAP). This new measure assesses the unconscious aspects of one’s representational model of attachment, such as defenses and underlying expectations concerning relationships. In addition to examining the implicit facet of the attachment construct, this study also explored individuals’ conscious perceptions of attachment needs and experiences by means of a self-report measure. Twenty-five male adolescent sex offenders participated in this study. All subjects were administered the AAP and the Inventory of Parental and Peer Attachment. A brief interview was also conducted in order to gather more detailed descriptive information concerning the adolescents’ family relationships and history of sexual offenses. Results from this study indicated that 100% of the adolescents were classified as insecure on the AAP. The majority of subjects were judged to be dismissing (52%), followed closely by the unresolved attachment status (44%). These findings were discussed in terms of the disorganized attachment-sex offending model and in regards to the attachment concept of “failed mourning.” Qualitative data from the subjects’ interviews and AAP stories were used to provide further support for these theories. The divergent objective-projective test scores that emerged from this study were discussed in terms of their utility and the ways in which they complement each other. Overall, results from this study suggested that insecure attachment may play an important role in sexually aggressive behavior and that attachment-based intervention models may be useful when working with this population. / text

Robertson and Bowlby (1952) found that prolonged separations from the mother lower the extent to which infants seek proximity to their mother. Although prolonged separations are no longer common today, some infants experience extremely long hours of nonmaternal care, which may lead them to seek less proximity to their mother. I examined this hypothesis using data from the National Institute of Child Health and Development: Early Child Care and Youth Development Study (N = 1,281). A series of regression analyses revealed that infants’ hours of nonmaternal care at 4 to 6, 7 to 9, and 10 to 12 months, but not at 1 to 3 or 13 to 15 months, were associated with their proximity-seeking behavior in the Strange Situation at 15 months. Using a polynomial regression analysis, I further found a cubic relation between the number of nonmaternal care hours at 7 to 9 months and infants’ proximity-seeking behavior. Specifically, proximity-seeking behavior rapidly declined during two time periods: when infants spent from 0 to 10 hours per week in nonmaternal care and when they spent over 60 hours per week in nonmaternal care. I also found that mothers’ and nonmaternal caregivers’ sensitivity was associated with infants’ proximity-seeking behavior, and proximity-seeking behavior predicted young children's ability to control their behavior and also the amount of time that they were able to focus their attention on their mother or their experimenter during a developmentally challenging task at 36 months. Findings reported in this dissertation highlight the important role of proximity-seeking behavior in the attachment relationship formed with the caregiver during infancy and the development of self-control and attention during the preschool years. / text