Given the large body of evidence
linking attachment insecurity to psychological distress (e.g., depression) in the transition from adolescence to emerging adulthood and across the lifespan, there is a need to better understand how attachment dimensions (e.g., anxious, avoidant) influence depressive symptoms during this developmental period.
Not exact matches
Studies have shown
links between
insecurity and obesity, early trauma and obesity, and even how
attachment styles can affect eating behaviors.
More importantly, our results demonstrate an interaction between dispositional
attachment insecurities and
attachment security that was temporarily activated to explore the
link with emotion processing (Carnelley and Rowe, 2010).
Egeland and Sroufe1 pointed out the dramatically negative impact of neglecting or abusive maternal behavior for
attachment and personality development, for which they accumulated unique prospective evidence in later phases of the Minnesota study.2 What do we know about the association between child maltreatment and
attachment, what are the mechanisms
linking maltreatment with
attachment insecurity and disorganization, and what type of
attachment - based interventions might be most effective?
Although the secure vs. insecure
attachment distinction has some predictive validity, disorganized
attachment has far better documented
links with specific types of psychopathology than do other types of
insecurity.4, 9 Still, much less is understood about the mechanisms through which disorganized
attachment affects the expression of psychopathology in the child, and whether it is a specific contributor or a more general marker for psychopathology in general.
Also, in a more recent meta - analysis it was found that
attachment insecurity was significantly
linked with externalizing behaviors in 69 studies (Fearon et al. 2010).
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).
We address three key questions: (a) how consistent is the evidence that
attachment security or
insecurity is
linked to internalizing symptoms, anxiety, and depression?
Although some studies found causal
links in which psychological symptoms increase
attachment insecurity,
attachment insecurity can be viewed as a general vulnerability to mental disorders, with the particular symptoms depending on genetic, developmental, and environmental factors [22].