Parenting Journal · Volume 2 · Issue 4 · Licensed source edition
Latent profiles of parental attachment styles and their associations with parenting behaviors among parents of school-aged children
Originally published 2026-05-04 · Frontiers in Psychology
Frontiers Media SA · DOI 10.3389/fpsyg.2026.1691655 ↗
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How might different patterns of adult attachment relate to everyday parenting behavior?
A profile approach compares combinations of parental attachment characteristics instead of assuming every caregiver fits a single score.
Who was studied?
Parents of school-aged children assessed on attachment styles and parenting behaviors
Age / stage: School-age children
Read with three questions
- How might different patterns of adult attachment relate to everyday parenting behavior?
- Whose observations or reports were used, and what competing explanations are compatible with them?
- Which features of the study population (parents of school-aged children assessed on attachment styles and parenting behaviors) would matter when applying the findings in another setting?
Keep the limits in view
Latent profiles are groupings inferred from the available measures. They should not be treated as fixed categories that a parent or child must belong to.
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Yali Wang; Xiaoshu Lin; Xinxin Zhang; Xiaoyun Ma; Ciqing Bao; Xiaofan Chen (2026). Latent profiles of parental attachment styles and their associations with parenting behaviors among parents of school-aged children Frontiers in Psychology. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2026.1691655
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