EXAMINATION ON SEPARATION ANXIETY OF SIX YEAR OLD CHILDREN WITH WORKING MOTHERS IN TERMS OF ATTACHMENT TYPES.
ANNESİ ÇALIŞAN 6 YAŞ ÇOCUKLARIN AYRILIK KAYGISININ BAĞLANMA STİLLERİ AÇISINDAN İNCELENMESİ

Author : Saniye TEZE -- Emel ARSLAN
Number of pages : 417-435

Abstract

In this study it was examined that whether separation anxiety of 6 year old children differentiates or not considering attachment patterns (secure, avoidant, negative), working condition of their mothers and gender. Independent variables are gender, working condition of mother and attachment patterns. Dependent variable is separation anxiety. 6 year old children having full family structures were included in the study. Research group of the study consisted of 183 children in total (80 girls, 103 boys). Working group discovered a negative, low-level relationship between sub-dimension point of children’s separation anxiety, ‘fear of being alone’ and attachment point. There was no negative relation on meaningful level. Joint effect of attachment patterns and mother’s working condition on point averages of the children’s ‘fear of being alone’ didn’t differentiate on meaningful level. Children with negative attachment pattern had more ‘fear of being alone’ than children with secure attachment patterns. Point averages of ‘fear of being abandoned’ was examined relating with mother’s working condition and children with unemployed mothers had higher ‘fear of being abandoned’ points; there was differentiation on meaningful level between fear of being alone point averages of children having negative attachment pattern and children with secure, avoidant attachment patterns. Attachment patterns of children with employed mothers and joint effect of gender were examined and ‘fear of being alone’ and ‘fear of being abandoned’ point averages didn’t differentiate on meaningful level. ‘Fear of being alone’ and ‘fear of being abandoned’ point averages of children with unemployed mothers and negative attachment patterns differentiate from children with avoidant, secure attachment patterns on meaningful level.

Keywords

6 Year Old Children, Attachment Types, Separation Anxiety Assessment Scale, Fear of Being Alone, Fea

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