| Abstract [eng] |
Study aim: to reveal the relationships between women‘s behavioral and emotional difficulties in terms of psychological style attachment and the perceived style of parenting. The study was aimed at comparing the behavioral and emotional difficulties of the style of attachment of younger and older women in the age group. The study was aiming also to reveal the relationships of the women involved in the study in terms of the behavioural and emotional difficulties and the style of attachment, the perceived style of maternal parental style; to assess the prognostic value of women's behavioral and emotional difficulties and attachment style. The study included 232 women aged 25 to 59 (mean 37 years). The study was conducted in Klaipėda, Kaunas, Vilnius and in the districts of these cities. The Adult Self Report for Age 18 – 59 (ASR, 1999), by T. M. Achenbach and Colleagues was used to identify the problems of female behaviour and emotions; for identification of the attachment style - Relationship Scale Questionnaire (RSQ, 1994), by K. Bartholomew and D.Griffin. The Parent Authority Questionnaire (PAQ, 1991), created by John R. Buri, was used to identify women's parenting styles inherited from their mothers. The results of the study showed that younger women experience more pronounced behavioural and emotional difficulties than older ones. A statistically significant relationship between female behavioral and emotional difficulties and attachment style was found – difficulties of behaviour and emotions were the more pronounced when they were related to the styles of fearful and preoccupied attachment. Women who evaluated the perceived style of mother's parenting as authoritarian and pemissive had a more pronounced expression of behavioral and emotional difficulties. Women who evaluated the perceived style of mother's parenting as authoritative were characterized by decreased expression of behavioural and emotional difficulties. A link was also found between female attachment style and perceived style of mother's parenting style, which showed that the style of preoccupied attachment is related to authoritarian and permissive style of parenting. A perceived mother's authoritarian style of parenting predicts expressions of pronounced anxiety/depression feelings, somatic complaints, aggressive behaviour, breaking rules, annoying behaviours, and and a more pronounced expression of fearful, preoccupied and dismissing attachment style in adult women. A perceived mother's authoritative parenting style predicts less pronounced feelings of anxiety/depression among women and a less prominent expression of aggressive behaviour and breaking rules. The perceived permissive style of mother’s parenting predicts expression of more pronounced annoying behaviour and greater expression of secure and dismissing attachment styles in adult women. |
