Page No 68-73
S. Suresh and Arun Tipandjan
Annamalai University, International Centre for Psychological
Annamalainagar. Counseling and Social Research, Puducherry
Adolescence is the age when an individual becomes integrated into the society
of adults and a major transition starts taking place physically as well as
psychologically. Therefore this stage is very sensitive and an important phase
of life which shapes the entire future and it also predicts the quality of life an
adolescent will lead. Attachment has become an important issue in clinical
evaluation of, and legal decisions about, school-aged children. Bowlby’s general
framework of attachment formation in parent–child bonding posits that caregivers
have predictable, common styles that impact a child’s emotion regulation, social
relatedness, capacity for self-reflection, and overall neurological development—
factors that may extend through adulthood. So the aim of the study is to find out
the association between the variables and how much it affects an adolescent
behaviour and mental health. The sample consisted of 120 adolescent boys
and girls’ age ranging from 13-14 years and randomization technique was used
to select them. Results were finally analyzed using product moment correlation