The relationship between attachment and anxiety. a comparative study of adolescents with disabilities from paternal vs. maternal single-parent families

Abstract

Starting from the premise that the strengthening of a different type of attachment from the secure one gives rise to anxiety - as a disruptive phenomenon in the adaptation to the social environment through exaggerated fear, led us to focus on adolescents with multiple disabilities - this being the motivation of the chosen theme. After establishing the main objective: to analyze with reference to the chosen sample, if there are significant differences in the development of adolescents with disabilities from single-parent paternal vs. paternal family environment involved in the study - the relationship between the level of anxiety and attachment style in adolescents with multiple disabilities in the sample.The specific objectives of the research were: the identification of relationships between attachment style and anxiety; the identification of relationships between anxiety and single-parent family. The theoretical basis of the present work provides information on the type of attachment and the level of anxiety in adolescents, as well as their consequences in relation to those with multiple disabilities from single-parent maternal and paternal families. Therefore, in the present study we wanted to capture the relationship between attachment style and anxiety in adolescents with multiple disabilities, and especially whether there are significant differences between these variables.