A study of the Correlation among Attachment and Interpersonal Relationship of Immigrant Brides’ Children

• Main Authors: Hui-Ting, Chang, 張惠婷
• Other Authors: Chih-Hsien, Chen
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2009
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/32675138200290206724

碩士 === 國立臺東大學 === 教育學系(所) === 98 === This research aimed to investigate the relationships between attachment and interpersonal relationship of immigrant brides’ children. In order to collect data, a questionnaire was developed. The sample consisted of 2,069 students from seven counties in southern Taiwan and Penghu county, and there were 184 immigrant brides’ children out of the 2,069 students. The variables of interest were measured by “Security Scale” and “Peer relationship Scale”. The outcome was analyzed by t-test, MANOVA, two-way ANOVA, Pearson correlation, canonical analysis, and multiple regression analysis. Finally, the findings of this research were illustrated as follows: 1) The immigrant brides’ children had good degrees of attachment and interpersonal relationship; 2) Comparing immigrant brides’ and native spouses’ children’s attachments and interpersonal relationships, there was no significant difference; 3) Regarding to gender, interpersonal relationships between boys and girls had a significant difference; 4) Besides, family structure difference was found on child-mother attachment; 5) The immigrant brides’ children with two secure attachment representations showed better interpersonal relationships than children with two insecure attachment representations. Children with discordant attachment representations could compensate for friendship; 6) There was no interaction effect between gender and child-father attachment, but also no interaction effect was found between gender and child-mother attachment on immigrant brides’ children’s interpersonal relationships; 7) The degree of child-father attachment, child-mother attachment and interpersonal relationship of immigrant brides’ children showed positive correlations; 8) The study also showed that immigrant brides’ children’s overall interpersonal relationship could be predicted from child-father attachment.