Aim: To assess the parental and peer attachment and its correlation with aggressivity among late adolescents. Introduction: Parent- adolescent relationship continues to play a key role in influencing the adolescent’s development. Attachment is a basic human need for a close and intimate relationship between adolescents and their parents. The impact of peers, whether positive or negative, is of crucial importance for personality development during adolescence. Objective: To assess and correlate parental & peer attachment with aggressivity among late adolescents. Methodology: A correlational research design was used to assess the level of parental & peer attachment with aggressivity among late adolescents (200), selected by convenience sampling technique, studying in selected nursing colleges of Ludhiana, Punjab. Inventory of Parent and Peer Attachment was used to assess the level of parental
and per attachment and Aggression Questionnaire was used to assess the level of aggressivity. Result: Findings revealed that the 97.5% of late adolecents had secure maternal attachment & only 2.5% had insecure maternal attachment and 93.5% had secure paternal attachment while 6.5% showed insecure paternal attachment. In case of peer attachment, 99% of late adolescents showed secure peer attachment and 1% showed insecure peer attachment. Regarding aggressivity, 53.5% late adolescents had severe level of aggressivity, 44.5% had moderate level and only 2% had mild levels. There was no correlation between maternal attachment and aggressivity however, weak positive correlation was found between peer attachment and aggressivity and very weak positive correlation was found between paternal attachment and aggressivity. The association of level of parental attachment, peer attachment and aggressivity was found significant with gender.Conclusion: Thus, the study concluded that there was very weak
positive correlation between paternal attachment and aggressivity and there was weak positive correlation between peer attachment and aggressivity whereas there was no correlation between maternal attachment and aggressivity.

Keywords: Maternal attachment; Paternal attachment; Peer attachment; Aggressivity.