Attachment-Related Anxiety And Parenting Stress

Diabetic children need an especial parental involvement which can create an extreme stress to parents. Maintaining children’s blood glucose constant is a challenging task for parents to do. Though having a secure relationship with children is a better way of dealing with their problem, a research on the importance of having a secure relation with diabetic children was hardly done. The purpose of the study by Helena Moreira and Maria Cristina Canavarro, was to research the impact of attachment-related anxiety and avoidance on the parenting stress in parents of diabetic children by analyzing the report of a sample of 105 parents on their attachment, parenting stress and perceived influence of their children’s diabetes on their family. The study reports that parents having high attachment avoidance have a high probability of experiencing parenting stress.

Keywords: attachment anxiety, attachment avoidance, parenting stress, perceived impact, pediatric diabetes

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The demanding tasks that are supposed to be done for diabetic children to control their blood glucose can create stress in parents. The level of attachment-related anxiety and attachment-related avoidance are the major factors that influence the way that people handle their stressful events. This study investigates the impacts of attachment anxiety and avoidance on the parenting stress that parents of diabetic children experiences. In this study, researchers hypothesized that parents having a higher level of attachment-related anxiety and attachment-related avoidance have a higher possibility of experiencing parenting stress due to their negative attitude of the effects of diabetes in their