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This study aimed to verify the relationship between parent-child role reversal and child’s attachment
function, testing the hypothesis that role reversal may impede the child’s attachment function. Some
183 high school students replied to a questionnaire which consisted of items for measuring role
reversal and attachment function, including three factors: safe haven, secure base and maintenance
of proximity. Correlation and multiple regression analyses revealed the following tendencies. All
three aspects of attachment function are impeded by role reversal, in particular when parents do not
respond to the child’s “amae” tendencies, and when the child is not able to express his/her own “amae”
to the parents. In addition, cluster analysis and ANOVA showed that the role-reversal group suffers
impediment of the safe haven and secure base attachment functions.
https://ror.org/04chrp450 
