@article{ref1,
title="An attachment perspective on anger among adolescents",
journal="Merrill-Palmer quarterly",
year="2014",
author="Konishi, Chiaki and Hymel, Shelley",
volume="60",
number="1",
pages="53-79",
abstract="Extending John Bowlby's hypothesis that dysfunctional anger is a predictable outcome of insecure attachments to parents, this study investigated the relationship between current parent-adolescent attachment and both the experience and expression of anger. Participants included 776 students (379 boys and 397 girls) in grades 8-12. As predicted by attachment theory, results of structural equation modeling analyses indicated that adolescents' self-reported attachment anxiety and attachment avoidance toward both mother and father figures were positively related to the adolescents' greater levels of self-reported anger intensity. In turn, greater intensity of anger was associated with higher levels of both internalizing (anger-in) and externalizing (anger-out) expressions. In addition, there was a direct effect of attachment anxiety on internalized but not externalized anger. This study highlights the importance of differentiating anger dimensions and the critical role of anger intensity as a mediator of the relationship between insecure attachment and anger expressions.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="0272-930X",
doi="10.1353/mpq.2014.0000",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/mpq.2014.0000"
}