Abstract:
fathers has in young adults’ mental health symptomology. Participants were asked questions
relating to their current adulthood attachment to their fathers, alongside questions relating to
their current mental health (e.g., depressive and anxiety symptoms, interpersonal communication
skills, and risk-taking behaviors) and temperament. The evidence suggests that young adulthood
attachment to fathers alongside temperament dimensions may play a role in young adults’
depressive and anxiety symptoms, interpersonal communication skills, and the risk-taking
behaviors. The results demonstrated that gender also played a key role in the differing amounts
of mental health symptomology young adults report and the associations between attachment and
mental health outcomes. In contrast, only temperament dimensions were found to be consistent
primarily for women. Fathers were found to play a role in the mental health symptomology their
young adult children reported.
