Single Mothers’ Attachment Styles and Personality Influences on Child Psychopathology

Abstract

This study investigated the effects of single mothers’ attachment styles, demographic variables and personality traits in the explanation of variations for children metal health problems based on Structural Equation Modeling (SEM). Results showed that mother’s attachment styles, demographic variables and mother’s personality traits explain 88.8% of child’s psychopathology variations in this study. Mother’s attachment styles, demographic variables and mother’s personality traits have .711, .100 and .682 path coefficients with child’s psychopathology in this study respectively. All subscales of mother’s attachment styles and mother’s personality traits and child’s age had significantly indirect effects on child’s psychopathology in this sample.

Keywords:

• Child psychopathology
• demographics
• Maternal attachment styles
• mother’s personality traits
• single mother head-families

Disclosure statement

There was not any funding and financial support for this study. The authors declare that they have no conflict of interest. The authors certify that they have no affiliations with or involvement in any organization or entity with any financial interest, or non-financial interest in the subject matter or materials discussed in this manuscript.