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Showing 1 to 20 of 26 for “"attachment insecurity"”.
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The timing of adverse childhood experiences and adult attachment insecurity
The student, Matthew Saxsma, accepted the attached license on 2024-12-09 at 16:25.
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Exploring sources of perceived social support and attachment insecurity that significantly predict mental health among a group of college students
… examined sources of perceived social support and attachment insecurity that were significant predictors of mental health in a group of college students. 407 undergraduate students (mean age = 20.25 years) enrolled in a 200-level course in a large Midwestern university volunteered to complete …
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Reactions to Sexual Abuse Disclosure and Adult Psychological and Romantic Outcomes
… outcomes in adulthood, including insecure attachment, psychological distress, and difficulties in romantic relationships. The disclosure process has the potential to exacerbate or ameliorate the effects of CSA, depending on how the disclosure is reacted to by others. This study used an …
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Digital dating abuse in the LGBTQIA+ community
… community. Current literature has outlined attachment insecurity as a factor in a person’s propensity to experience DDA. However, a person’s level of outness, as it relates to their sexual orientation and/or gender orientation has not been explored in the current literary landscape. The …
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The relationship between adult attachment and trauma
… childhood interpersonal traumas perpetrated by attachment figures and the experience of trauma in adulthood. Very little is known, however, about how various forms of childhood interpersonal abuse and neglect affect trauma sequelae and adult romantic attachment in women during the childbearing …
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The Role of Mindfulness, Attachment, and Stress in Diverse Populations During Pregnancy
… variables, that may mitigate such impact. Attachment security and dispositional mindfulness have been found to predict lower stress levels in certain contexts. Additionally, mindfulness training has proven to be an effective stress reduction intervention in pregnant populations. This study …
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Developmental Pathways for Children with Disruptive Behavior Disorders
The purpose of this study was to incorporate attachment theory and psychopathy into a transactional model to explain the development of disruptive behavior disorders in children. The model tested in this study proposed two broad pathways leading to the development of disruptive behavior disorders. …
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The Influence of Adult Attachment Orientations and Multicultural Competence on Higher Education Faculty Perceptions of ELL Students
… was to explore the influence of adult attachment orientations and multicultural competence on higher education faculty perceptions of ELL (English Language Learner) students. My primary research question is whether difficulty working with ELL students, from the perspective of faculty …
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Divergence in Siblings' Adult Attachment Security: Potential Contributors and Consequences
… research has revealed only modest concordance in attachment security between siblings during childhood and adolescence. The first goal of this dissertation was to estimate sibling concordance in adult attachment security and identify factors contributing to divergence. The Adult Attachment …
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Attachment disorganization in infancy: a developmental precursor to maladaptive social information processing at age eight
… current study was to examine relations between attachment security and organization in infancy and social information processing at age eight. The sample included 77 children at high risk for maltreatment. Attachment quality was assessed using the Strange Situation, when children were on average …
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The Contributions of Parental Socialization of Emotion and Adult Attachment Orientation to Maladaptive Emotion Regulation and Eating Disorders
… to perceived validation or invalidation within attachment relationships with parents. Thus, parental responses to children’s emotions can be considered part of the co-occurring processes of parental socialization of emotion and attachment orientation formation. Extant literature has demonstrated …
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When matches are ideal: Fitting measurement models to adult attachment data
… commonly used self-report measure of adult attachment styles--is best understood as a dominance or ideal-point process. The authors compared the fits of alternative models in a sample of 1,293 adults. Results showed that the ideal point model provided a good account of the response process, …
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Exploration of the Link Between Migration and Acculturation Related-Stress, Attachment Style, and Psychological Distress in Arab Immigrants, Refugees, and Asylees
… revealed a higher prevalence of insecure attachment in migrant compared to non-migrant populations. Attachment style may be influenced by sociocultural and sociopolitical forces and the associated prejudice and discrimination experienced by a particular migrant population. The current …
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The Impact of Perceived Social Support on Complex Posttraumatic Stress Disorder
… with adverse outcomes such as somatic symptoms, attachment insecurity, and overall lower life satisfaction (Karatzias et al., 2018; Kuhar & Zager Kocjan 2022; Maercker et al, 2022). Due to these additional features relating to DSO, CPTSD has been identified as distinct from PTSD, and so it has …
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Exploring the Relationships Between Childhood Emotional Neglect, Attachment, Perfectionism, and Adult Mental Health Struggles Across the Socioeconomic Spectrum
… childhood emotional neglect, perfectionism, attachment insecurity, and internalizing symptoms (depression and anxiety) among adults from varying socioeconomic (SES) backgrounds. Participants (N = 210) aged 18 years or older completed five validated self-report instruments for the quantitative …
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Examining Cultural Orientation as a Moderator: Attachment Style, Forgiveness, and Depression
… of cultural orientation on the relation between attachment style and forgiveness and between forgiveness and depression. It was hypothesized that a secure attachment style would be associated with greater dispositional forgiveness of both self and others. Specifically, for those high in …
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Insecure Adult Attachment Predicts Engagement with Narrative Fiction
Individual differences in attachment orientations predict how deeply involved people become in social relationships, but do they also influence the extent to which they become invested in fictional social worlds? In Studies 13, we found that an interaction between attachment anxiety and avoidance …
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The Attachment-Satisfaction Relationship On Facebook: Emotional Intelligence And Conflict
… M., Ph.D. Purdue University, February 2013. The Attachment-Satisfaction Relationship on Facebook: Emotional Intelligence and Conflict. Major Professor: M. Carole Pistole, Ph.D.</p> <p>Because of the unique interpersonal nature of social networking sites, as well as the vast number of people using …
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Early life adverse experiences and the effect on parenting stress and schizotypal symptoms
… traumas can affect the formation of secure attachments to caregivers. These insecure attachment styles persist into adulthood, affecting all subsequent relationships including that between parent and child. This thesis firstly examines the relationship between CSA and later parenting stress …
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Attachment as Diathesis: An examination of adult attachment as depressive vulnerability when individuals are faced with negative events
This thesis tested a diathesis-stress model of attachment on the links between stressful life events and depressed mood. Drawing on diathesis-stress models in the personality domain, I hypothesised that experiencing negative interpersonal events would be associated with lower mood, particularly for …
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