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Relations among parents’ attachment, parenting quality, and autistic and nonautistic children’s social-emotional functioning
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Attachment theory has demonstrated the longitudinal impact that aspects of the parent–child dyad have on youth’s social-emotional development. Yet, little to no work has investigated whether parents’ attachment, including parental secure base script (SBS) knowledge and parental attachment styles, are associated with youth’s social-emotional functioning or examined mechanisms by which parents’ attachment leads to social-emotional functioning. Even less research has examined the role of parents’ attachment in parent–child dyads with youth diagnosed with autism spectrum disorder (ASD; further identified as autistic youth) and its impact on their subsequent social-emotional development. Thus, the current pre-registered study assessed whether parents’ attachment was associated with children’s maladaptive (internalizing/externalizing symptoms) and adaptive (social competence) social-emotional functioning via parenting quality (authoritative parenting) in 108 nonautistic parent–child dyads and 49 autistic parent–child dyads. Separate structural equation models were run by group. Higher levels of parents’ SBS knowledge predicted social competence in autistic parent–child dyads. Additionally, higher levels of parents’attachment-related anxietypredicted lower levels of social competence in autistic parent–child dyads.Attachment-related avoidancepredicted lower levels of social competence in nonautistic parent–child dyads and higher levels of externalizing symptoms in autistic parent–child dyads. Results suggest parents’ attachment representations may have unique contributions to youth’s social-emotional functioning.
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Attachment
social-emotional development
social competence
internalizing symptoms
parenting quality
autism
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