ONTOLOGICAL SECURITY OF AN INDIVIDUAL: ATTACHMENT STYLES AND COPING STRATEGIES

Aim. The aim of this paper is to theoretically substantiate individual’s attachment as a need for ontological security, to outline the educational aspects of supporting the ontological security, and to empirically investigate the attachment styles and coping strategies of individuals in early and middle adulthood. Methods. The article is based on an extensive review of the literature, which involves the use of such methods as interpretation (of previously unexplained psychological aspects of ontological security) and comparative analysis (of the views of Ronald Laing and family psychotherapists). An empirical study was conducted. The study group consisted of 90 persons: 45 male and 45 female, at the age of early and middle adulthood. The research used a number of psychological methods to study different types of attachments, relationships, personality traits and coping strategies that help overcome ontological insecurity. The method of statistical and mathematical analysis of results was also applied. Results. Ontological security is a marker of positive types of attachment. Our empirical research has shown that people with anxious attachment more often overcome ontological insecurity by positively rethinking the problem, which can lead to an underestimation of the possibilities of its effective solution. People with a reliable attachment are ontologically secure due to mutual trust, responsibility, problem analysis and planning, which eliminate escape strategies and problem avoidance. Conclusions. Ontological security-insecurity manifests itself in different types of attachments and corresponding coping strategies. The results showed the importance of developing and adapting the methodology of ontological protection for Ukrainian socio-cultural realities. This technique is being prepared to be operationalized with the scales of psychological techniques used in this study.

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Adult Attachment Styles, Perceived Social Support and Coping Strategies

Journal of Social and Personal Relationships ◽

10.1177/0265407598153002 ◽

1998 ◽

Vol 15 (3) ◽

pp. 323-345 ◽

Cited By ~ 170

Author(s):

Todd C. Ognibene ◽

Nancy L. Collins

Keyword(s):

Social Support ◽

Coping Strategies ◽

Adult Attachment ◽

Attachment Styles ◽

Perceived Social Support ◽

Adult Attachment Styles ◽

And Coping

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THE INTERRELATION OF CHILD-PARENT RELATIONS AND COPING STRATEGIES OF OLDER ADOLESCENTS FROM DIFFERENT TYPES OF FAMILIES

Bulletin of the Moscow State Regional University (Psychology) ◽

10.18384/2310-7235-2021-2-96-110 ◽

2021 ◽

pp. 96-110

Author(s):

Olga I. Ivanova ◽

Olga R. Busarova

Keyword(s):

Coping Strategies ◽

Older Adolescents ◽

Different Types ◽

And Coping

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Emotion Regulation and Coping Strategies in Pedagogical Students with Different Attachment Styles

Japanese Psychological Research ◽

10.1111/jpr.12130 ◽

2016 ◽

Vol 58 (4) ◽

pp. 355-366 ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Author(s):

Simona Prosen ◽

Helena Smrtnik Vitulić

Keyword(s):

Emotion Regulation ◽

Coping Strategies ◽

Attachment Styles ◽

And Coping

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Personality Factors, Attachment Styles and Coping Strategies in Couples with Good and Poor Marital Quality

Psychological Studies ◽

10.1007/s12646-013-0233-7 ◽

2014 ◽

Vol 59 (1) ◽

pp. 59-67 ◽

Cited By ~ 3

Author(s):

Sangeeta Banerjee ◽

Jayanti Basu

Keyword(s):

Coping Strategies ◽

Marital Quality ◽

Attachment Styles ◽

Personality Factors ◽

And Coping

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ATTACHMENT STYLES TO THE FATHER AND COPING STRATEGIES AMONG EARLY ADOLESCENTS IN BANDA ACEH CITY

Psikologika Jurnal Pemikiran dan Penelitian Psikologi ◽

10.20885/psikologika.vol19.iss1.art2 ◽

2014 ◽

Vol 19 (1) ◽

Author(s):

Fatmawati Fatmawati ◽

Nuzsep Almigo Bin Muhammad Alwi Zainuddin

Keyword(s):

Coping Strategies ◽

Attachment Styles ◽

Early Adolescents ◽

And Coping ◽

Banda Aceh

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The Price of Distrust: Trust, Anxious Attachment, Jealousy, and Partner Abuse

Partner Abuse ◽

10.1891/1946-6560.6.3.298 ◽

2015 ◽

Vol 6 (3) ◽

pp. 298-319 ◽

Cited By ~ 20

Author(s):

Lindsey M. Rodriguez ◽

Angelo M. DiBello ◽

Camilla S. Øverup ◽

Clayton Neighbors

Keyword(s):

Attachment Styles ◽

Partner Abuse ◽

Cross Sectional Study ◽

Attachment Anxiety ◽

Anxious Attachment ◽

Cross Sectional ◽

Cascading Effects ◽

Different Types ◽

Partner Behaviors ◽

And Behavior

Trust is essential to the development of healthy, secure, and satisfying relationships (Simpson, 2007a). Attachment styles provide a theoretical framework for understanding how individuals respond to partner behaviors that either confirm or violate trust (Hazan & Shaver, 1994). The current research aimed to identify how trust and attachment anxiety might interact to predict different types of jealousy and physical and psychological abuse. We expected that when experiencing lower levels of trust, anxiously attached individuals would report higher levels of both cognitive and behavioral jealousy as well as partner abuse perpetration. Participants in committed romantic relationships (N= 261) completed measures of trust, attachment anxiety and avoidance, jealousy, and physical and psychological partner abuse in a cross-sectional study. Moderation results largely supported the hypotheses: Attachment anxiety moderated the association between trust and jealousy, such that anxious individuals experienced much higher levels of cognitive and behavioral jealousy when reporting lower levels of trust. Moreover, attachment anxiety moderated the association between trust and nonphysical violence. These results suggest that upon experiencing distrust in one’s partner, anxiously attached individuals are more likely to become jealous, snoop through a partner’s belongings, and become psychologically abusive. The present research illustrates that particularly for anxiously attached individuals, distrust has cascading effects on relationship cognitions and behavior, and this should be a key area of discussion during therapy.

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Trauma and Coping Strategies in Police Officers: A Quantitative-Qualitative Pilot Study

International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health ◽

10.3390/ijerph18030982 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 18 (3) ◽

pp. 982

Author(s):

Cristina Civilotti ◽

Giulia Di Fini ◽

Daniela Acquadro Maran

Keyword(s):

Coping Strategies ◽

Attachment Style ◽

Police Officers ◽

Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis ◽

Attachment Styles ◽

Traumatic Events ◽

Maslach Burnout Inventory ◽

Structured Interview ◽

Stressful Events ◽

And Coping

Background. Because of their work, emergency workers, such as police officers (POs), are exposed to traumatic events on a daily basis. These experiences can have consequences in terms of physical and emotional stress. Primary attachment relationships affect the development of coping strategies for dealing with stressful events (primarily hyperactivating strategies in entangled adults and hypo-activating strategies in dismissing adults). In this study, we explored how POs describe the experience of traumatic accidents, the effects they reported and their coping strategies related to their attachment style. Methods. We used a quantitative-qualitative method. Thirty-nine POs were administered the Beck Depression Inventory, the Maslach Burnout Inventory and a semi-structured interview about traumatic events and reactions. Interviews were analyzed using Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis. Results. Traumatic events at work predominantly concerned aggressions, witnessing deaths, forced hospitalizations, and domestic violence involving children. POs with a responsible role were more likely than POs to use security-based strategies. Most POs narrated overactivation and deactivation strategies, which were associated with depressive symptoms, emotional exhaustion, and depersonalization. Conclusions. These results can be useful to improve trauma-informed interventions for POs based on their different attachment styles and coping strategies.

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Assessment Of The Anxiety, Depression And Coping Strategies In Diagnosed Cancer Patients

Asian Journal of Health Sciences ◽

10.15419/ajhs.v1i1.405 ◽

2013 ◽

Vol 1 (1) ◽

pp. 3-6

Author(s):

Jincy Jose ◽

Blessy Antony ◽

Usha Ukande

Keyword(s):

Coping Strategies ◽

Cancer Patients ◽

Sampling Technique ◽

Demographic Variables ◽

Anxiety And Depression ◽

Wide Range ◽

Different Types ◽

Males And Females ◽

And Coping ◽

Anxiety Depression

Across the world, there are people who suffer from different types of cancers. These patients suffer problems of anxiety and depression as the commonest psychological problems. Therefore, an exploratory study was conducted to assess the anxiety, depression and coping strategies in diagnosed cancer patients in selected hospital of Indore. Samples of 50 patients both males and females were taken for the study using non-probability purposive sampling technique. Assessment of data was done using standardized tools i.e. Hamilton's anxiety scale, Beck's Depression inventory and a set of 5 open ended questionnaire for the patients. Statistical findings revealed that there was no association between the level of anxiety and the socio demographic variables. The findings of the study revealed that majority of the cancer patients suffer from symptoms of anxiety (23 out of 50 patients, 46%) and depression (19 out of 50 patients, 38%) in their daily life. To adapt to these stressful conditions patients can use a wide range of diversional methods or coping strategies. In the study, it was found that patients used different coping strategies like watching television, engaged in spiritual activities and spending time with friends being the commonest methods.

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Relation between levels of anxiety and coping strategies in Colombian university

International journal of psychological research ◽

10.21500/20112084.797 ◽

2011 ◽

Vol 4 (1) ◽

pp. 50-57 ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Author(s):

Monica Tatiana Castellanos Cardenas ◽

Cindy Alexandra Guarnizo Castillo ◽

Yenny Salamanca Camargo

Keyword(s):

Coping Strategies ◽

Pearson Correlation ◽

Cognitive Avoidance ◽

Level 3 ◽

Analysis Of Results ◽

Level 1 ◽

And Coping ◽

Technological University ◽

Age Range ◽

The Relationship

This study is not experimental, correlational, analyzes the relationship between anxiety levels and coping strategies most used by students who begin their internship in psychology at the Pedagogical and Technological University of Colombia, the population is composed of 36 young students with an age range between 21 and 29, unmarried, who do their internship during the second half of 2010, the instruments used are the Coping Strategies Scale Chorot and Sandin (1993) validated for Colombian population by Londoño Henao, Puerta, Posada, Arango, & Aguirre (2006) and Zung of Zung scale (1971) validated and adapted for Colombia by De la Ossa, Martinez & Herazo (2009). Analysis of results from the Pearson correlation coefficient and the statistical package SPSS version 17.0, show that a high negative correlation between anxiety level 1 (no anxiety) and the strategy problem solving and cognitive avoidance, while Level 3 (moderate to severe) is positively correlated with cognitive avoidance strategy.

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