Role of attachment in facilitating adolescents’ self-disclosure to parents

Pages: 1445-1448
Sweta Pathak (Department of Psychology, TNB College TMBU, Bhagalpur, Bihar)
Shubhra Sinha (Department of Psychology, VKM Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh)

Adolescence is a transitional phase, in which adolescents’ interaction with peers’ increases considerably and in such stage, to explore how parental attachment affects the process of self-disclosure in adolescents, the present study is formulated to examine the relationship between parental attachment and personal and relational self-disclosure. Personal self-disclosure is defined as disclosing about oneself whereas relational self-disclosure refers to sharing ideas one has about someone or something else. Scales of parental attachment and self-disclosure were used to measure the variables. The study was conducted on 300 randomly selected participants (150 males & 150 females) of age range 18-24 years from Patiala, Punjab. Multiple regression with subgroup analysis was used to examine the relationship between parental attachment and adolescents’ self-disclosure separately for boys and girls.