Structural model of the effect of attachment to parents on attachment to peers through the mediation of psychological capital on the personality type D

Relations between parents and children are a vital link to creating love and security. This communication is the first communication experience for children, through which the feeling of love, intimacy, and safety in the child is created. Attachment styles have an important influence on other person's relationships, and this effect is especially important in adolescents whose relationships with peers are expanding.

This research was designed to develop a structural model of the effect of attachment to parents on attachment to peers with the mediating of psychological capital on personality type D. For this purpose, in a descriptive study of type of modeling, 200 high school students from Ahwaz high schools were selected by using available sampling and were evaluated for attachment to parents, attachment to peers, psychological capital, and personality type D.

The results of structural equation modeling based on covariance matrix or correlation between variables showed that 96.6% of the variable of psychological capital was explained by attachment to parent and personality type D, and 10% of attachment variable to peers by three variables of attachment to father and mother and the psychological capital are explained. Findings showed that attachment to father has the greatest impact on attachment to peers and then attach to mother.

The results of this study support the significance of the path between the personality type D and the psychological capital and the path between attachment to the father and attachment to peers.