Numerous studies, across various disciplines, have highlighted the association between
early attachment insecurity and mental health difficulties in adulthood (Hart, (2011) The Impact of Attachment.
Not exact matches
Studies have shown links between
insecurity and obesity,
early trauma and obesity, and even how
attachment styles can affect eating behaviors.
Depression and
attachment insecurity of the primary caregiver and more distal family adversity factors (such as incomplete schooling or vocational training of parents, high person - to - room ratio,
early parenthood, and broken - home history of parents) were found to best predict inadequate parenting13, 14 and precede the development of a child's low compliance with parents, low effortful control, and behavior problems.13, 15, — , 17 These psychosocial familial characteristics might also constrain the transfer of program contents into everyday family life and the maintenance of modified behaviors after the conclusion of the programs.
Maternal
attachment insecurity is a potent predictor of depressive symptoms in the
early postnatal period.
Briefly, researchers think of adult
attachment as a tendency to approach relationships in a particular way, primarily based on experiences with childhood caregivers.2 Usually, researchers view
attachment in terms of the degree and kind of
insecurity (avoidance or anxiety) a person might have (see our
earlier work for a full review of how
attachment styles play out in relationships).
Beyond confirming that self - reported
early risk exposure was associated with a more sexualized romantic self - concept, greater numbers of relationships, and greater
attachment insecurity, «Study 1» confirmed a hypothesized four - way interaction between gender,
early risk, romantic self - concept, and
attachment style.
Since the present data do not include information about relationship duration, it can only be presumed that the
early days, weeks, or years of a relationship lead to
insecurity and therefore
attachment anxiety (Asendorpf, 2006; Scharfe and Cole, 2006).
Early risk exposure reportedly influences romantic relationship formation via an increase in sexualized reproductive strategies and
attachment insecurity.
Research links
early life trauma with insecure
attachment (e.g. Murphy et al. 2014) and research also suggests an association between
attachment insecurity and parenting stress (Kwako et al. 2010).