الإبتزاز العاطفي لدى الأبناء من قبل الوالدين وعلاقته بأنماط التعلق الوجداني لدى عينة من طلاب المدارس الثانوية
The present study aimed to identify emotional blackmail in its three dimensions (fear, obligation, and guilt) and its relationship to emotional patterns in its three dimensions (safe mode, anxiety mode, avoidance pattern) and its relationship to some demographic variables (gender - the educational level of parents). The research sample consisted of 210 students in the first class of secondary school (120 females, 90 males). Their age (15-17 years old). The researcher prepared an emotional blackmail scale and applied the measurement of emotional attachment patterns for adolescents, prepared by Abu Ghazal, Gradat, (2009). The results showed the followings: There is no a statistically significant relationship between emotional blackmail and emotional attachment patterns among high school students and there is a high level of emotional blackmail among the sample of students, the most common emotional patterns are the avoided pattern, followed by the anxiety pattern, then the safe pattern, no statistically significant differences between males and females in emotional patterns, there is a statistically significant differences between males and females in the level of emotional blackmail in favor of females, there are statistically significant differences in the level of emotional blackmail due to the educational level of parents in favor of without a university level, and no statistically significant differences in emotional patterns due to the educational level of the parents. (Published abstract)