{"id":3394,"date":"2014-04-01T15:48:04","date_gmt":"2014-04-01T19:48:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ccpa.scottbuckingham.ca\/blog\/?p=3394"},"modified":"2014-04-01T15:48:04","modified_gmt":"2014-04-01T19:48:04","slug":"father-attachment-predicts-adolescent-girls-social-and-emotional-development","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ccpa-accp.ca\/fr\/father-attachment-predicts-adolescent-girls-social-and-emotional-development\/","title":{"rendered":"Father Attachment Predicts Adolescent Girls\u2019 Social and Emotional Development"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><a href=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/shutterstock_133592429.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-3397\" title=\"shutterstock_133592429\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/shutterstock_133592429-300x180.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"180\" \/><\/a>The principle focus of research on parental attachment and involvement has been about mothers and their young children, with the role of fathers relatively neglected. In addition, the study of father\u2013child relational processes during the adolescent period has been meager, compared to mother\u2013child influences during adolescence. The few studies on father\u2013adolescent relationships rarely focus on the father\u2013daughter attachment bond. Dr. Sandhu\u2019s research study aimed primarily to consider the nature of father attachment on the social and emotional development of adolescent girls. The variables of interest were Father Attachment, Social Problems, Social Competence, and Internalizing Behavioral Problems, as perceived by adolescent girls. The archival survey data for this study were gathered from 246 adolescent females from a Catholic school between the ages of 14 and 16 years old who participated in Dr. Ferrari\u2019s 2008 study on \u201cAttachment, personal resources and coping in trait-anxious adolescent girls.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Results supported the proposed hypotheses, revealing statistically significant correlations among perceived quality of Father Attachment, and adolescent girls\u2019 Social Competence, Social Problems, and Internalizing Behavioral Problems. Together, Father Attachment, Social Competence and Social Problems accounted for over half of the variance (54.5%) of Internalizing Behavioral Problems. In addition, Father Attachment and Social Problems each uniquely predicted Internalizing Behavioral Problems in a standard multiple regression analysis. However, once Father Attachment and Social Problems were accounted for, the relationship between Social Competence and Internalizing Behavioral Problems was no longer significant.<\/p>\n<p>Incorporating these findings in prevention and treatment programs could prove to be crucial, particularly for programs aimed at promoting emotional well being among adolescent girls. Specifically, these findings are important for mental health therapists on several levels. When compared to mothers, fathers rarely are included by clinicians to participate in the treatment of their children\u2019s psychological problems. This pattern is true for single parents (e.g., separated, divorced, or never-married parents) and married or remarried parents. Offering father\u2013daughter treatment in therapy may have important ramifications for the effectiveness of the therapy, as there has been empirical evidence that engaging fathers in therapy can enhance the therapeutic effectiveness of those services. Perhaps more educational efforts, such as highlighting the influence fathers have on their adolescent daughters\u2019 psychosocial development, could help therapy seem more appealing to fathers. In this realm of educational training, graduate programs should include more extensive training on family systems to alert therapists to the importance of father attachment on their adolescent daughters\u2019 psychosocial development.<\/p>\n<p>Furthermore, the findings indicated that social problems place adolescent girls in Catholic schools at risk for developing internalizing behavioral problems such as anxiety, depression, and somatic complaints, but also inhibit social competence in girls. This interaction likely has a bidirectional and transactional influence on each element; that is, social problems lead to internalizing behavioral problems, which in turn leads to more social problems. These findings are clinically significant for educators and mental health practitioners treating adolescent girls at subclinical levels of emotional and social problems. Specifically, research affirms that more targeted prevention programs are cost effective, practical, and beneficial in the long run to help adolescent girls with subclinical problems, compared to adolescent girls with internalizing disorder.<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Sandhu\u2019s research offers greater understanding of the role fathers play in their adolescent daughters\u2019 lives and the influences fathers have on their daughter\u2019s social and emotional development from the perspective of Canadian Catholic adolescent girls\u2019 self-reports. The current study adds to the limited existing literature on father\u2013daughter attachment. However, more research is needed to fully understand fatherhood as a construct and to make the role of fathers one that is publically visible and highly appreciated.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>By:\u00a0<strong style=\"mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12.0pt; font-family: 'Cambria','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'MS Mincho'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA;\" lang=\"EN-US\">Dr. Reena Sandhu<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The principle focus of research on parental attachment and involvement has been about mothers and their young children, with the role of fathers relatively neglected. In addition, the study of father\u2013child relational processes during the adolescent period has been meager, compared to mother\u2013child influences during adolescence. The few studies on father\u2013adolescent relationships rarely focus on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1001023,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[21,820],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3394","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-parentingchildrenandtheclassroom","category-relationshipsmarriageandthefamily"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Father Attachment Predicts Adolescent Girls\u2019 Social and Emotional Development - L&#039;Association canadienne de counseling et de psychoth\u00e9rapie<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ccpa-accp.ca\/fr\/father-attachment-predicts-adolescent-girls-social-and-emotional-development\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"fr_FR\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Father Attachment Predicts Adolescent Girls\u2019 Social and Emotional Development - L&#039;Association canadienne de counseling et de psychoth\u00e9rapie\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The principle focus of research on parental attachment and involvement has been about mothers and their young children, with the role of fathers relatively neglected. In addition, the study of father\u2013child relational processes during the adolescent period has been meager, compared to mother\u2013child influences during adolescence. The few studies on father\u2013adolescent relationships rarely focus on [&hellip;]\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.ccpa-accp.ca\/fr\/father-attachment-predicts-adolescent-girls-social-and-emotional-development\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"L&#039;Association canadienne de counseling et de psychoth\u00e9rapie\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2014-04-01T19:48:04+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/www.ccpa-accp.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/shutterstock_133592429-300x180.jpg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Reena Sandhu\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"\u00c9crit par\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Reena Sandhu\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Dur\u00e9e de lecture estim\u00e9e\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"3 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\\\/\\\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.ccpa-accp.ca\\\/fr\\\/father-attachment-predicts-adolescent-girls-social-and-emotional-development\\\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.ccpa-accp.ca\\\/fr\\\/father-attachment-predicts-adolescent-girls-social-and-emotional-development\\\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"Reena Sandhu\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.ccpa-accp.ca\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/99a85b70b541d5aa2b948a1aad9e534f\"},\"headline\":\"Father Attachment Predicts Adolescent Girls\u2019 Social and Emotional Development\",\"datePublished\":\"2014-04-01T19:48:04+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.ccpa-accp.ca\\\/fr\\\/father-attachment-predicts-adolescent-girls-social-and-emotional-development\\\/\"},\"wordCount\":611,\"commentCount\":0,\"articleSection\":[\"Parenting, Children and the Classroom\",\"Relationships, Marriage, and the Family\"],\"inLanguage\":\"fr-FR\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\\\/\\\/www.ccpa-accp.ca\\\/fr\\\/father-attachment-predicts-adolescent-girls-social-and-emotional-development\\\/#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.ccpa-accp.ca\\\/fr\\\/father-attachment-predicts-adolescent-girls-social-and-emotional-development\\\/\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.ccpa-accp.ca\\\/fr\\\/father-attachment-predicts-adolescent-girls-social-and-emotional-development\\\/\",\"name\":\"Father Attachment Predicts Adolescent Girls\u2019 Social and Emotional Development - L'Association canadienne de counseling et de psychoth\u00e9rapie\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.ccpa-accp.ca\\\/#website\"},\"datePublished\":\"2014-04-01T19:48:04+00:00\",\"author\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.ccpa-accp.ca\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/99a85b70b541d5aa2b948a1aad9e534f\"},\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.ccpa-accp.ca\\\/fr\\\/father-attachment-predicts-adolescent-girls-social-and-emotional-development\\\/#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"fr-FR\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\\\/\\\/www.ccpa-accp.ca\\\/fr\\\/father-attachment-predicts-adolescent-girls-social-and-emotional-development\\\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.ccpa-accp.ca\\\/fr\\\/father-attachment-predicts-adolescent-girls-social-and-emotional-development\\\/#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.ccpa-accp.ca\\\/fr\\\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"Father Attachment Predicts Adolescent Girls\u2019 Social and Emotional Development\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.ccpa-accp.ca\\\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.ccpa-accp.ca\\\/\",\"name\":\"L'Association canadienne de counseling et de psychoth\u00e9rapie\",\"description\":\"\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.ccpa-accp.ca\\\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":{\"@type\":\"PropertyValueSpecification\",\"valueRequired\":true,\"valueName\":\"search_term_string\"}}],\"inLanguage\":\"fr-FR\"},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.ccpa-accp.ca\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/99a85b70b541d5aa2b948a1aad9e534f\",\"name\":\"Reena Sandhu\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.ccpa-accp.ca\\\/fr\\\/author\\\/rsandhu7anqma6ru9iq1zu\\\/\"}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"Father Attachment Predicts Adolescent Girls\u2019 Social and Emotional Development - L'Association canadienne de counseling et de psychoth\u00e9rapie","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/www.ccpa-accp.ca\/fr\/father-attachment-predicts-adolescent-girls-social-and-emotional-development\/","og_locale":"fr_FR","og_type":"article","og_title":"Father Attachment Predicts Adolescent Girls\u2019 Social and Emotional Development - L'Association canadienne de counseling et de psychoth\u00e9rapie","og_description":"The principle focus of research on parental attachment and involvement has been about mothers and their young children, with the role of fathers relatively neglected. In addition, the study of father\u2013child relational processes during the adolescent period has been meager, compared to mother\u2013child influences during adolescence. The few studies on father\u2013adolescent relationships rarely focus on [&hellip;]","og_url":"https:\/\/www.ccpa-accp.ca\/fr\/father-attachment-predicts-adolescent-girls-social-and-emotional-development\/","og_site_name":"L'Association canadienne de counseling et de psychoth\u00e9rapie","article_published_time":"2014-04-01T19:48:04+00:00","og_image":[{"url":"https:\/\/www.ccpa-accp.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/shutterstock_133592429-300x180.jpg","type":"","width":"","height":""}],"author":"Reena Sandhu","twitter_misc":{"\u00c9crit par":"Reena Sandhu","Dur\u00e9e de lecture estim\u00e9e":"3 minutes"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Article","@id":"https:\/\/www.ccpa-accp.ca\/fr\/father-attachment-predicts-adolescent-girls-social-and-emotional-development\/#article","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.ccpa-accp.ca\/fr\/father-attachment-predicts-adolescent-girls-social-and-emotional-development\/"},"author":{"name":"Reena Sandhu","@id":"https:\/\/www.ccpa-accp.ca\/#\/schema\/person\/99a85b70b541d5aa2b948a1aad9e534f"},"headline":"Father Attachment Predicts Adolescent Girls\u2019 Social and Emotional Development","datePublished":"2014-04-01T19:48:04+00:00","mainEntityOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.ccpa-accp.ca\/fr\/father-attachment-predicts-adolescent-girls-social-and-emotional-development\/"},"wordCount":611,"commentCount":0,"articleSection":["Parenting, Children and the Classroom","Relationships, Marriage, and the Family"],"inLanguage":"fr-FR","potentialAction":[{"@type":"CommentAction","name":"Comment","target":["https:\/\/www.ccpa-accp.ca\/fr\/father-attachment-predicts-adolescent-girls-social-and-emotional-development\/#respond"]}]},{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/www.ccpa-accp.ca\/fr\/father-attachment-predicts-adolescent-girls-social-and-emotional-development\/","url":"https:\/\/www.ccpa-accp.ca\/fr\/father-attachment-predicts-adolescent-girls-social-and-emotional-development\/","name":"Father Attachment Predicts Adolescent Girls\u2019 Social and Emotional Development - L'Association canadienne de counseling et de psychoth\u00e9rapie","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.ccpa-accp.ca\/#website"},"datePublished":"2014-04-01T19:48:04+00:00","author":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.ccpa-accp.ca\/#\/schema\/person\/99a85b70b541d5aa2b948a1aad9e534f"},"breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.ccpa-accp.ca\/fr\/father-attachment-predicts-adolescent-girls-social-and-emotional-development\/#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"fr-FR","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/www.ccpa-accp.ca\/fr\/father-attachment-predicts-adolescent-girls-social-and-emotional-development\/"]}]},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/www.ccpa-accp.ca\/fr\/father-attachment-predicts-adolescent-girls-social-and-emotional-development\/#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/www.ccpa-accp.ca\/fr\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Father Attachment Predicts Adolescent Girls\u2019 Social and Emotional Development"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/www.ccpa-accp.ca\/#website","url":"https:\/\/www.ccpa-accp.ca\/","name":"L'Association canadienne de counseling et de psychoth\u00e9rapie","description":"","potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/www.ccpa-accp.ca\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":{"@type":"PropertyValueSpecification","valueRequired":true,"valueName":"search_term_string"}}],"inLanguage":"fr-FR"},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/www.ccpa-accp.ca\/#\/schema\/person\/99a85b70b541d5aa2b948a1aad9e534f","name":"Reena Sandhu","url":"https:\/\/www.ccpa-accp.ca\/fr\/author\/rsandhu7anqma6ru9iq1zu\/"}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ccpa-accp.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3394","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ccpa-accp.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ccpa-accp.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ccpa-accp.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1001023"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ccpa-accp.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3394"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ccpa-accp.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3394\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ccpa-accp.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3394"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ccpa-accp.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3394"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ccpa-accp.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3394"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}