In her master's thesis, the author researched the field of attachment to parents, quality of family life, and self-esteem in adolescents. In the first part, the theoretical foundations and past research performed in the selected field are presented. The author first addressed adolescence where she defined the period of it and pointed out some tasks and characteristics. She continued with the presentation of the importance of parents in the development of adolescents, especially emphasizing the importance of adolescent attachment to parents. In this part, she highlights the upbringing, attitude, main tasks of parents, and their influence on adolescence. Then, she presents attachment styles and the attachment theory and writes a little more about attachment in adolescence. She continues with the quality of family life where she addresses family processes and the essence of the quality of family life. At the end of the theoretical part, she speaks about the self-esteem of the adolescent where she defines self-esteem and lists the types of it. In the second part, she presents the results of a study involving 249 participants of which 74 were boys and 175 were girls. Young people aged 11 to 24 participated in the sample. Sociodemographic questions were first asked during the data collection. Then, three measurement tools were used: the Inventory of Parent and Peer Attachment Scale (IPPA), the Family Quality of Life Scale (FQOL), and the Rosenberg Self-Esteem Scale (RSS). The results showed that female adolescents are less securely attached to their parents than male adolescents. However, the differences are not statistically significant. The results also show that there is a statistically significant positive connection between parental attachment and quality of family life. When the quality of attachment is higher, trust and communication with parents are better and there is less alienation. The results also showed that the higher the self-esteem, the greater the satisfaction in the family. The better the upbringing, the better the emotion. The better the well-being in the family, the greater the self-esteem of the adolescent. It also turned out that the greater the trust, the higher the self-esteem. The better the communication and the lower the alienation, the higher the self-esteem in adolescents.
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