While attachment at an early age is almost exclusively determined by parental behavior, variation in the quality of attachment in adolescence seems strong to be influenced by the complex interplay between the adolescent’s internal working model and its environment. To unravel the different sources of variance in adolescent attachment relationships we applied the Social Relations Model. Two parents and two adolescents from 70 relatively well-functioning families reported on their attachment relationships within a family context. In this study, attachment was conceptualized by two different dimensions of attachment, namely anxiety (for being abandoned) and avoidance (of intimacy). Our findings suggest adolescents experience little attachment anxiety throughout adolescence, but they report significantly more attachment avoidance toward their parents. The variance in the quality of adolescents’ attachment relationships was mainly determined by characteristics of the adolescent and the unique adjustments they make to the attachment figure.

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青少年依恋：家庭关系的社会关系视角

虽然幼年的依恋几乎完全由父母的行为决定，但青春期依恋质量的变化似乎强烈受到青少年内部工作模式与其环境之间复杂相互作用的影响。为了揭示青少年依恋关系的不同差异来源，我们应用了社会关系模型。来自 70 个相对良好的家庭的两名父母和两名青少年报告了他们在家庭环境中的依恋关系。在这项研究中，依恋被概念化为依恋的两个不同维度，即焦虑（被抛弃）和回避（亲密）。我们的研究结果表明，青少年在整个青春期几乎没有依恋焦虑，但他们报告对父母的依恋回避明显更多。