Anxious Attachment and Loneliness in Emerging Adulthood: The Mediating Role of Social Skills

2013 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tess J. Krakoff ◽  
Jonathan F. Mattanah
Keyword(s):  
Social Skills ◽  
Emerging Adulthood ◽  
Anxious Attachment ◽  
Mediating Role

Relationships With Parents, Identity Styles, and Positive Youth Development During the Transition From Adolescence to Emerging Adulthood

2017 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 42-52 ◽  
Author(s):  
Goda Kaniušonytė ◽  
Rita Žukauskienė
Keyword(s):  
Emerging Adulthood ◽  
Youth Development ◽  
Positive Youth Development ◽  
Autonomy Support ◽  
Positive Development ◽  
Positive Relationships ◽  
Identity Styles ◽  
Mediating Role ◽  
Supportive Parenting

The purpose of this study was to examine the links between relationships with parents, identity styles, and positive youth development (PYD), conceptualized as “contribution” to self, family, and community, in Lithuanian youth during the transition from adolescence to emerging adulthood. In Study I, we sought to examine how positive relationships with parents predict contribution with the potential mediating role of autonomy-supportive parenting. Participants ( N = 153) filled a self-reported questionnaire in the final year of school and 1 year later. In Study II, we aimed at investigating how parental autonomy support is related to the contribution and the potential mediating role of identity processing style. Participants ( N = 254) were assessed 1 year after graduating high school. Overall, the findings indicated that positive relationships with parents play an important role in successful adjustment and that this relationship is partially mediated by identity style. To conclude, the way in which parents respond to their children’s need for autonomy and relatedness affects the adequate identity management and overall positive development during emerging adulthood.

scholarly journals Attachment and Personality Disorders Among Child Molesters: The Role of Trust

Sexual Abuse ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 31 (1) ◽  
pp. 97-124 ◽  
Author(s):  
Carlo Garofalo ◽  
Stefan Bogaerts
Keyword(s):  
Personality Disorders ◽  
Attachment Styles ◽  
Child Molesters ◽  
Attachment Anxiety ◽  
Control Group ◽  
Marginal Contribution ◽  
Obsessive Compulsive ◽  
Anxious Attachment ◽  
Mediating Role

The present study investigated multivariate associations between attachment styles and personality disorders (PDs)—and the mediating role of trust—in a sample of child molesters ( n = 84) and a matched control group from the general community ( n = 80). Among child molesters, canonical correlation analysis revealed that two variates resembling avoidant and anxious attachment dimensions were associated with PD traits. Attachment avoidance was related to schizoid, schizotypal, and avoidant PDs, with a marginal contribution of antisocial PD. Attachment anxiety was related to borderline and histrionic PDs, with a marginal contribution of obsessive-compulsive PD. Paranoid and dependent PDs contributed to both variates. In the control group, a more general association between attachment insecurity and PDs emerged. Finally, mistrust significantly explained the associations between attachment and PDs in both samples. Future studies should examine whether treatment for PDs in child molesters could benefit from a focus on attachment and trust.

Teen childbearing and offspring internalizing symptoms: The mediating role of child maltreatment

2020 ◽  
pp. 1-13
Author(s):  
Justin Russotti ◽  
Fred A. Rogosch ◽  
Elizabeth D. Handley ◽  
Kathryn Z. Douthit ◽  
Andre Marquis ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Child Maltreatment ◽  
Emerging Adulthood ◽  
Internalizing Symptoms ◽  
Family Income ◽  
Developmental Model ◽  
Equation Modeling ◽  
Childbearing Age ◽  
Mediating Role ◽  
Teen Childbearing

Abstract Teenage childbearing (age 15–19 years) represents a significant public health issue that can generate considerable deleterious, multigenerational consequences for teen-childbearing mothers and their offspring. However, few studies have examined the potential mediating mechanisms that may explain if and how teen childbearing is associated with the development of offspring psychopathology. The current study used a developmental model to test the mediating role of chronic child maltreatment in the relationship between teen childbearing and offspring internalizing symptoms in childhood and emerging adulthood. The study participants were 384 individuals from socioeconomically disadvantaged, ethnically diverse backgrounds, assessed across two longitudinal waves of data (i.e., ages 10–12 and 18–20). The sample included maltreated and nonmaltreated children, all of whom were comparable in terms of family income. Structural equation modeling was conducted to test direct and indirect pathways from teen childbearing to offspring psychopathology. A multigenerational developmental cascade was found such that individuals born to mothers who began their childbearing in adolescence were more likely to experience chronic maltreatment during childhood, which in turn predicted greater internalizing symptoms throughout childhood and emerging adulthood. Using a developmental psychopathology framework, the results are discussed with regard to implications for prevention and early intervention.

Change in Self-Criticism Across Emerging Adulthood and Psychological Well-Being at Age 35: The Mediating Role of Reflectivity

2019 ◽  
pp. 216769681988219
Author(s):  
Yossi Michaeli ◽  
Daniel J. Dickson ◽  
Maor Kalfon Hakhmigari ◽  
Miri Scharf ◽  
Shmuel Shulman
Keyword(s):  
Emerging Adulthood ◽  
Emerging Adults ◽  
Personality Development ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Developmental Tasks ◽  
Psychological Well Being ◽  
Mediating Role ◽  
Longitudinal Association ◽  
Future Outcomes

Recent conceptualization and research in personality development have shown that significant changes in personality taking place during emerging adulthood where young people tend to become more emotionally mature and stable. In line with these contentions, we examined in a sample of 205 Israeli emerging adults the longitudinal association between change in self-criticism across ages 23 and 29 and positive developmental and psychological well-being outcomes at age 35. In addition, we examined the extent to which the association between change in self-criticism and future outcomes would be mediated through reflectivity. Findings indicated that greater decrease in self-criticism during emerging adulthood associated with greater reflective capability at age 29 and both longitudinally associated with greater achievement of developmental tasks and better psychological well-being at age 35. Additionally, associations of decrease in self-criticism with future outcomes were mediated through reflectivity. These findings point to maturity processes that can explain outcomes in young adulthood.

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