A Study On Parental Adults 'Attachment, Educational Concept And Children' S Peer Relationship

Adult Attachment refers to the long term emotional connection between the individual and the companion; it can reflect the intimate relationship. The adult attachment in the family mostly refers to the spousal relationship. Education concept is the core idea in guiding parenting behavior of parents in the family, which includes the Child Development Idea, Parental Expectation Idea, Parents View and Parent-Child Idea, etc. Studies have shown that adult attachment has an effect on the parenting stress and style, and the education concept also affected peer relation. However, the existing researches of adult attachment and education concept are more focus on conception field, which lack of the empirical study. This study used Adult Attachment Relationship Scale, Parental Educational Concept Questionnaire combined with the measuring method of Peer Nomination to investigate the present situation of parents’ adult attachment and education concept; and reveal the relations of these three aspects. 107 children and their parents have been the subjects, and the study concluded these following results:1) Child grade had a significant impact on the parents’ attachment avoidance; the level of attachment avoidance in the senior grade was higher than the other.2) Father and mother showed significant difference in Claiming Punishment, father’s score in this dimension was higher than mother’s.3) Parents’ education background had a significant impact on the parenting invalid feeling, the level of the parenting invalid feeling of the parents whose education background below the senior high school were highest.4) Child grade had no significant impact on fathers’ education concept but in mothers’ on the contrary; the score of claiming democracy in the senior grade was lower than the other.5) The higher the level of attachment avoidance and anxiety, the more negative education concept will be shown within parents.6) Fathers’ attachment anxiety could significantly predict his claiming democracy and rewards in the education concept. Mothers’ attachment avoidance could significantly predict her claiming democracy and inheritance, and her attachment avoidance could significantly predict her achievem ent expectations, parenting invalid feeling, claiming democracy and punishment of the education concept as well.