This study is entitled “Emotional and physical attachment of Senior High School students with absentee parents: Basis for the development of social behavior”. This study aimed to determine the emotional and physical attachment of Senior High School students with absentee parents: basis for the development of social behavior. One hundred students from public Senior High School in Carmona, Cavite were used as respondents of the study. A researcher made questionnaire was utilized to gather all necessary information needed in the study such as profile of the respondents, emotional and physical attachment measured in terms of secure attachment, ambivalent attachment, avoidant attachment, disorganized attachment, and social behavior of students having absentee parent/s in manner of interacting to some situation and conditions. Data gathered were tabulated, organized and analysed using descriptive statistics such as frequency counts, mean, and standard deviation.
Some of the major findings of the study are as follows:
Most of the respondents belong to age 17 years old and 58.6 per cent are female students; 44.4 per cent have mothers working abroad, and 52.5 per cent of the absentee parents are under 1 to 2 years of contract. The Local Employment (Philippines) has the highest mean value 46.5. Majority have parents works under blue collar job and 46.4 per cent have parents with monthly salary of P 25,000 and above.
The overall mean perception of the respondents on the emotional and physical attachment measured in terms of secure attachment, ambivalent attachment, avoidant attachment, disorganized attachment is interpreted as “Sometimes”. The respondents’ attachment of social behavior in terms of secure and avoidant has a significant relationship with their communication, attitude, and relationship with their absentee parents at p<0.1 level of significant. Likewise, their secure attachment has significant relationship only with the development of their attitude and relationship with their absentee parent/s at p<0.5 level of significant. There is a significant relationship between the respondents’ attachment and development of social behavior with their absentee parent/s.
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