The impact of Parental and Peer Attachment on Aggressive Behavior of Adolescents

Abstract

The definition of attachment is a long-term psychological relation between people. Attachment • is defined as an early-life, reciprocal bond between a child and a career. All elements of development, including neurological, hysica~, social bond emotional, cognitive, behavioral, and are profoundly and permanently impacted by this interaction. (Bowlby, 1969). Attachment increases the likelihood that the baby will survive by keeping him or her close to the mother. There are hundreds of years of history about the concept of infant's emotional attachment to the caregiver based on the anxiety display by the infants and toddlers when they are separated from the caregiver (Bowlby, 1969) . Both the psychoanalytic and behavioral perspective assumes that human infants make affectionate ties with the caregiver, for example parents who fulfill the infant's primary needs like food, become associated with the positive feeling. This can be explained with the classical conditioning as food is an unconditioned stimulus (reinforcer) which is paired with the presence of caregiver,. resulting in the association of positive feeling with the caregiver (Wenar & Kerig, 2007).