Comparison of Attachment Style, Personality and Anxiety, in Mothers of Children With Separation Anxiety Disorder and Mothers of Normal Children

The aim of the present research was to investigate the impact of mother characeristics on child separation anx-iety and social maturation. This resea-rch assumes that attachment, personality, and anxiety in mother are related to child attachment anxiety and social maturity. To investigate the relationships this study compares two groups of mothe-rs. This research is a cross-sectional study carried on 60 mothers and their children.Inventories of Adult attachment scale, MCMI-2, State - Trait Anxiety, Social Maturity Scale and Child Symptom Inventory were used to collect the information. The statistical analysis of data is based on t-test, man whitney U, correlation and regression. Results in-dicated that insecure attachment (anxious-ambivalent), trait anxiety and some of the personality traits of moth-er could predict separation anxiety and social maturity in children.