Insecure attachment styles, relationship-drinking contexts, and marital alcohol problems: Testing the mediating role of relationship-specific drinking-to-cope motives.

Insecure attachment is linked to mentalizing difficulties and psychopathology. The current study aimed to examine if failures in mentalization, as observed in the form of uncertainty about mental states, mediated the relationship between attachment styles and global psychopathology in a group of 812 adults (66.5% females) from the community. Participants completed measures on attachment styles, uncertainty about mental states, and clinical symptoms. The authors found that uncertainty about mental states was a partial mediator of the associations between attachment styles and psychopathology. Furthermore, the findings supported the role of secure attachment in protecting from mentalization failures and psychopathology; on the contrary, increased scores on attachment styles involving a negative view of the self (preoccupied and fearful attachment styles) predicted high levels of uncertainty about mental states and psychopathology. Accordingly, clinicians may wish to promote mentalizing abilities in individuals who display a negative view of the self embedded in their attachment styles.

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On the Causal Relationship Between Attachment Styles and Marital Satisfaction: Mediating Role of Gottman's Marital Communication Model

Iranian Journal of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences ◽

10.5812/ijpbs.108339 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 15 (2) ◽

Author(s):

Maryam Mardani ◽

Sayed Ali Marashi ◽

Zabihollah Abbaspour

Keyword(s):

Marital Satisfaction ◽

Causal Relationship ◽

Communication Skills ◽

Attachment Styles ◽

Marital Relationship ◽

Insecure Attachment ◽

Communication Model ◽

Marital Communication ◽

Mediating Role

Background: Marital satisfaction is one of the main factors affecting the quality of life in marital relationships. It refers to individuals’ positive attitudes toward their marital relationship, and marital dissatisfaction is a negative and displeased attitude toward various aspects of marital relationship. Objectives: The present study aimed to explore the causal relationship between attachment styles and marital satisfaction regarding the mediating role of Gottman’s marital communication model. Methods: The statistical population encompassed all university students in Ahvaz in the academic year 2019 - 2020. The multi-stage random sampling method was used, and 230 persons were selected as the study samples. Hudson's Index of Marital Satisfaction (IMS), Coolins and Reed's Revised Adult Attachment Scale (RAAS), and Gottman's Communication Skills Scale (FHS) were also used to collect the data. Data analysis was performed using SPSS software version 26 and AMOS software version 24. Results: The results indicated that the study model well-fitted the study population, and all direct paths were statistically significant. Moreover, there was a significant relationship between secure attachment, anxiety-insecure attachment, and avoidance-insecure attachment with marital satisfaction mediated by Gottman's communication skills (P ≤ 0.001). Conclusions: Given the effect of Gottman’s couple attachment styles and four communication skills on marital satisfaction, their effectiveness in marital satisfaction is proved. Accordingly, therapists are recommended to implement educational and treatment programs containing cognitive and preventive attachment styles and Gottman’s communication skills to promote couples' marital satisfaction.

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Modeling Structural Equations of Relationships between Attachment Styles and Self-Differentiation with Academic Performance of University Students with the Mediating Role of Health Promoting Lifestyle

Journal of Counseling Research ◽

10.18502/qjcr.v20i79.7344 ◽

2021 ◽

Author(s):

Vafa Mostafa ◽

Hajar Falahzadeh ◽

Sorur Ahmadi ◽

Omid Hamidi

Keyword(s):

Academic Performance ◽

University Students ◽

Attachment Styles ◽

Structural Equation ◽

Equation Modeling ◽

Mediating Role ◽

Health Promoting ◽

Health Promoting Lifestyle ◽

Self Differentiation

Aim: The aim of this study was to test the structural equation model of relationships between attachment styles and self-differentiation with academic performance of university students with the mediating role of health-promoting lifestyle. Methods: The method of this research was descriptive and correlation type. The statistical population consisted of all undergraduate students of Shahid Beheshti University (1554 people) in the academic year of 2018-2019. The sample size was estimated to be 308 based on Cochran formula. Eventually 305 questionnaires were finalized. Research tools included the Self-Distinction Questionnaire (Skowron & Schmitt, 2003), the Adults Attachment Inventory (AAI) (Hazen and Shaver, 1987), the Health Promoting Lifestyle Profile (Walker, Sichrist & Pender, 1995) and the Educational Performance Test (Pham and Taylor, 1999) were used and data were analyzed by descriptive and inferential statistical methods (Pearson correlation, path analysis and structural equation modeling) using SPSS 23 and AMOS 26 statistical softwares. Findings: The results showed that attachment styles and self-differentiation have a significant relationship with academic performance and these variables are able to directly predict academic performance (p<0.01). Promotional lifestyles can also play a mediating role between attachment styles and self-differentiation with academic performance (p<0.01). Conclusion: Regarding the relationship between attachment styles, self-differentiation and health-promoting lifestyle with academic performance, special attention to these variables is necessary to improve student performance.

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Insecure attachment is associated with paranoia but not hallucinations in psychotic patients: the mediating role of negative self-esteem

Psychological Medicine ◽

10.1017/s0033291714002633 ◽

2014 ◽

Vol 45 (7) ◽

pp. 1495-1507 ◽

Cited By ~ 35

Author(s):

S. Wickham ◽

K. Sitko ◽

R. P. Bentall

Keyword(s):

Attachment Style ◽

Attachment Styles ◽

Self Esteem ◽

Insecure Attachment ◽

Future Research ◽

Schizophrenia Spectrum Disorders ◽

Attachment Representations ◽

Co Morbidity ◽

The Relationship

BackgroundA growing body of research has investigated associations between insecure attachment styles and psychosis. However, despite good theoretical and epidemiological reasons for hypothesising that insecure attachment may be specifically implicated in paranoid delusions, few studies have considered the role it plays in specific symptoms.MethodWe examined the relationship between attachment style, paranoid beliefs and hallucinatory experiences in a sample of 176 people with a diagnosis of schizophrenia spectrum disorders and 113 healthy controls. We also investigated the possible role of negative self-esteem in mediating this association.ResultsInsecure attachment predicted paranoia but not hallucinations after co-morbidity between the symptoms was controlled for. Negative self-esteem partially mediated the association between attachment anxiety and clinical paranoia, and fully mediated the relationship between attachment avoidance and clinical paranoia.ConclusionsIt may be fruitful to explore attachment representations in psychological treatments for paranoid patients. If future research confirms the importance of disrupted attachment as a risk factor for persecutory delusions, consideration might be given to how to protect vulnerable young people, for example those raised in children's homes.

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Attachment styles in college students and depression: The mediating role of self differentiation

Mental Health & Prevention ◽

10.1016/j.mhp.2019.01.011 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 13 ◽

pp. 135-142 ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Author(s):

Heather L. Monaghan Simon ◽

Joanne DiPlacido ◽

James M. Conway

Keyword(s):

College Students ◽

Attachment Styles ◽

Mediating Role ◽

Self Differentiation

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Insecure attachment and addiction: Testing the mediating role of emotion dysregulation in four potentially addictive behaviors

Addictive Behaviors ◽

10.1016/j.addbeh.2020.106432 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 107 ◽

pp. 106432 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Bruce S. Liese ◽

Hyoun S. Kim ◽

David C. Hodgins

Keyword(s):

Emotion Dysregulation ◽

Insecure Attachment ◽

Addictive Behaviors ◽

Mediating Role

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The relationship between attachment styles and internalizing/externalizing problems: The mediating role of self-criticism

Current Psychology ◽

10.1007/s12144-019-00174-4 ◽

2019 ◽

Author(s):

S. De Santis ◽

G. Falgares ◽

D. C. Kopala-Sibley

Keyword(s):

Externalizing Problems ◽

Attachment Styles ◽

Mediating Role ◽

The Relationship

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Adult attachment and paranoia: an experimental investigation

The Cognitive Behaviour Therapist ◽

10.1017/s1754470x17000058 ◽

2017 ◽

Vol 10 ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Author(s):

Jane Hutton ◽

Lyn Ellett ◽

Katherine Berry

Keyword(s):

Attachment Styles ◽

Negative Impact ◽

Attachment Anxiety ◽

Insecure Attachment ◽

Secure Attachment ◽

Attachment Representations ◽

Persecutory Delusions ◽

Priming Condition ◽

Induction State

AbstractAttachment theory may develop understanding of the occurrence and maintenance of persecutory delusions. This study investigates the role of dispositional attachment and contextually primed secure base attachment representations in the occurrence of paranoid thinking. Sixty participants were randomly allocated to one of three conditions: a secure attachment priming condition, a positive affect condition, or a neutral control condition. Following priming, all participants were exposed to a paranoia induction. State paranoia was measured at baseline and following the paranoia induction. Dispositional insecure attachment was associated with both trait and state paranoid thinking. Contrary to predictions, the secure attachment prime did not appear to buffer paranoid thinking and had a negative impact for participants with high levels of attachment anxiety, highlighting the potentially aversive effects of exposure to secure attachment material in those with existing insecure attachment styles.

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