A Study on Parents’ Perception on Parent-Child and Grandparent-Child Attachment in Grandparenting Families

• Main Authors: Huang, Ya-Ting Huang, 黃雅婷
• Other Authors: Lu, Ming
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2019
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/85a8gz

碩士 === 國立臺北教育大學 === 幼兒與家庭教育學系碩士在職專班 === 107 === The purpose of this research was to investigate parents’ perception of children’s attachment from grand parenting families in Taipei City, and to understand the perception differences based on each demographic variables and the perception differences between parents and grandparents. " The Inventory of Preschoolers’ Attachment Styles " was applied in this research. There were 114 valid questionnaires for the research data. Reliability and validity of the questionnaire reached significantly. The statistical methods were used to analyze the data, including descriptive statistics, t-test and one-way ANOVA. Conclusions were as following: 1. For secure attachment domain, parents thought that most of the children were willing to share items, feelings and hugs. The grandparents had exactly the same result. It also showed positive if grandchildren are willing to go out with grandparents. For insecure attachment domain, parents thought that, in most cases, children often throw tantrum toward parents. Same result on grandparents. 2.The result of secure and insecure attachment domain both showed significant differences for parents and grandparents’ attachment with their children. 3. There was strongly significant differences for grandparents’ demographic variables in secure attachment. The others were not. For parents, all variables (ages, education level, parenting level, and demographic) showed no strongly significant differences. The attachment results showed similar between intergenerational relationships.