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If you\u2019re a parent, you\u2019ve felt it: at the very least a fleeting, guilt-inducing moment in which your kid is getting jealous of your phone. Well, a study published last month says that guilt was there for a reason; kids who feel like their parents are phone addicts may experience a lack of attachment that lingers into adolescence, according to these findings.<\/p>\n

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The study, published in the peer-reviewed journal Frontiers in Psychology<\/em>, looked at 600 12- to 17-year olds rounded up on Qualtrics, a company that gathers test subjects for online surveys. It found a correlation between kids who regard their parents as distracted by their phones, and kids who self-report more indicators of what\u2019s known as \u201cinsecure attachment.\u201d<\/p>\n

Insecure attachment is a term in widespread use that comes from observable phenomena in babies. It\u2019s been studied and studied over the years, and has become a bedrock principle in guidance for parents. If there\u2019s an attachment issue, then later in life, there are, according to attachment theory, \u201cavoidant\u201d kids who avoid attachment, and \u201canxious\u201d kids who crave attachment.<\/p>\n

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The study linked reports of phone-distracted parents to both kinds of kids: anxious and avoidant.<\/p>\n

The researchers who performed this latest study didn\u2019t have access to their subjects as babies, and used a survey they themselves designed with teens in mind, along with a standard survey on attachment issues in teens, used in many other experiments. Their bespoke study was called the Device Attachment Interference Scale (DAIS).<\/p>\n

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The paper describes the DAIS like this:<\/p>\n

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\u201cItems assess adolescents\u2019 perceptions that their caregiver\u2019s attentional availability \u2018negatively affects our relationship,\u2019 that their caregiver \u2018does not pay enough attention to me because of their device use,\u2019 \u2018ignores me when they are on their device,\u2019 and \u2018seems inattentive due to their device use.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

They used a regression analysis to check the findings of that survey against the findings of the standard attachment survey in order to find a correlation, and they say there was one, and it isn\u2019t just statistical noise. Kids who reported phone junky moms or dads scored higher for both avoidant and anxious attachment.<\/p>\n

The results can\u2019t, and don\u2019t, claim that being a phone junky will make your kid into an insecure person. The opposite is just as plausible: insecure teens might be more annoyed that their parents are phone junkies. This is something the authors acknowledge.<\/p>\n

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There\u2019s been a whole wave of lawsuits lately against social media companies, largely over issues related to kids and mental health. With that in mind, one of the authors of the study, media psychologist Don Grant, told Bloomberg, \u201cWe know that they got the kids[\u2026]. Bravo, you got us too.\u201d Parents, he said, \u201cwere not immune to the psychological motivations and manipulations.\u201d<\/p>\n

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It doesn’t merit a full-throated denunciation of phones for parents, but it’s food for thought.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":811,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-812","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-culture"],"yoast_head":"\nNew Study Says Parents\u2019 Phone Use Might Be Giving Kids Attachment Issues Later On - Long Haul Moving Pros<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/longhaulmovingpros.com\/?p=812\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"New Study Says Parents\u2019 Phone Use Might Be Giving Kids Attachment Issues Later On - Long Haul Moving Pros\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"It doesn't merit a full-throated denunciation of phones for parents, but it's food for thought.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/longhaulmovingpros.com\/?p=812\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Long Haul Moving Pros\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2026-07-09T04:16:50+00:00\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"admin\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"admin\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"3 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\\\/\\\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/longhaulmovingpros.com\\\/?p=812#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/longhaulmovingpros.com\\\/?p=812\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"admin\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/longhaulmovingpros.com\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/ed9c8f732aec56889e8fd0602fe5af4b\"},\"headline\":\"New Study Says Parents\u2019 Phone Use Might Be Giving Kids Attachment Issues Later On\",\"datePublished\":\"2026-07-09T04:16:50+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/longhaulmovingpros.com\\\/?p=812\"},\"wordCount\":530,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/longhaulmovingpros.com\\\/?p=812#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/longhaulmovingpros.com\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2026\\\/07\\\/38d91829867d737739a7eb933ace3232.webp\",\"articleSection\":[\"Culture\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\\\/\\\/longhaulmovingpros.com\\\/?p=812#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/longhaulmovingpros.com\\\/?p=812\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/longhaulmovingpros.com\\\/?p=812\",\"name\":\"New Study Says Parents\u2019 Phone Use Might Be Giving Kids Attachment Issues Later On - 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