This did not look at how anxiety may have affected father attachment at young ages, although studies of adolescents have
found bidirectional associations between father - child attachment and anxiety or depressive symptoms over time (Branje, Hale, Frijns & Meeus, 2010; van Eijck, Branje, Hale & Meeus, 2012).
We found bidirectional associations between depression and obesity: obese persons had a 55 % increased risk of developing depression over time, whereas depressed persons had a 58 % increased risk of becoming obese.
Not exact matches
Finally, with regard to
bidirectional associations, several examples were
found.
In line with the broaden - and - build theory, a
bidirectional association also was
found between emotion regulation and the number of positive coping strategies used when stressed.
First, not only did we replicate the previously reported
finding of a
bidirectional relation over time between victimization and internalizing problems (Reijntjes et al. [2010]-RRB-, but this was done in the form of a more specific
bidirectional association between indirect victimization and emotional problems.
Similarly, the previously reported
finding of a
bidirectional relation over time between victimization and externalizing problems (Reijntjes et al. [2011]-RRB- was also replicated, but also here in the form of a more specific
bidirectional association between conduct problems and indirect victimization.
It also appears that
associations are
bidirectional in nature, as Bell and Belsky (2008)
found that mother — child relationships characterized by less closeness and greater conflict in late childhood were associated with more sleep problems in young adolescence, and childhood sleep problems were likewise associated with decreases in sensitive mothering and closeness over time.