Parental Modernity and Attachment among Adolescence

Since adolescence is a most highlighted age group of present era and may be a particularly critical age for attachment relations. In today's high - tech. globalized society, modernity in families' increases day by day and the parent adolescent's relationships shift and others get importance, attachment patterns may change as well. Considering the importance of modernity in our society there is an urgent need to focus on the effect of parental modernity on adolescent's attachment to mother and father. Hence, the present study aims to investigate the effect of parental modernity on attachment pattern of adolescents. A total of 200 parents (including 100 fathers and 100 mothers) along with their 100 adolescent children were selected randomly. Individual Modernity Scale was administered on parents and Inventory of Parent and Peer Attachment was administered on adolescents. The analysis reveals that adolescents have higher attachment security to traditional mother than to traditional father. Also, they have higher attachment security to modern mother than to modern father. Adolescents of modern parents reports greater attachment security to mother than adolescents of traditional parents. However, an insignificant difference between two groups i.e. adolescents of traditional parents and adolescents of modern parents, on attachment with father has been observed.