Abstract
Prior research suggests relationships between socialization factors, mental health outcomes, and interpersonal functioning. The present study investigated if there are relationships between parenting, attachment, codependency, and mental health factors including self-esteem, anxiety, among others, in a college student sample. Structural equation models including parenting, attachment, and mental health variables showed that attachment anxiety and avoidance partially mediated the effect of parenting on mental ill-health. An exploratory two-way analysis of variance showed an association between those who reported permissive parenting and any insecure adult attachment type with higher levels of codependency. Overall, findings suggest that the caregiver-child relationship is important to students’ mental health outcomes and may have important associations with codependency.