Adult Attachment, Shame, Depression, and Loneliness: The Mediation Role of Basic Psychological Needs Satisfaction.

Wei, Meifen; Shaffer, Philip A.; Young, Shannon K.; Zakalik, Robyn A.

doi:10.1037/0022-0167.52.4.591

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“…It has been found that individuals with secure attachment tend to experience high levels of basic psychological needs satisfaction (La Guardia, Ryan, Couchman, & Deci, 2000). In contrast, Wei, Shaffer, Young, and Zakalik (2005) found that insecure adult attachment types showed a negative correlation with the satisfaction of basic psychological needs.…”

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Attachment Anxiety, Basic Psychological Needs Satisfaction and Depressive Symptoms in University Students: A Mediation Analysis Approach

Kormas¹,

Karamali²,

Anagnostopoulos³

2014

IJPS

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This study examined the mediating role of basic psychological needs satisfaction in the relationship between attachment anxiety and depressive symptoms in university students. The following measurement instruments were used to collect the data: Center for Epidemiologic Studies-Depression Scale, Experiences in Close Relationships Scale and Basic Psychological Needs Satisfaction General-Scale. Mediated effects were explored using a series of regression analyses and were further confirmed through bootstrapping procedures. Results revealed that basic psychological needs satisfaction partially mediated the relationship between attachment anxiety and depression. These results indicated that attachment anxiety was connected with depressive symptoms in more complicated ways than had traditionally been suggested. Implications of the findings targeting basic psychological needs satisfaction in anxiously attached university students with higher levels of depressive symptoms for clinical practice are discussed.

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Attachment Anxiety, Basic Psychological Needs Satisfaction and Depressive Symptoms in University Students: A Mediation Analysis Approach

Kormas¹,

Karamali²,

Anagnostopoulos³

2014

IJPS

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“…Other research has examined consequences of the partner's tendency to help individuals meet their own personal needs (i.e., needs that are independent of a specific relational context). For example, research in the self-determination theory tradition demonstrates that individuals' fulfillment of their relatedness, autonomy, and competence needs within their romantic relationship predicts positive outcomes for the self and for their relationship (La Guardia, Ryan, Couchman, & Deci, 2000;Patrick et al, 2007;Wei, Shaffer, Young, & Zakalik, 2005). We adopt this self-determination theory perspective to examine 86 PERSONALITY AND SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY BULLETIN how the fulfillment of individuals' needs in their relationship interfaces with their experience of attachment anxiety to predict relationship commitment and breakup.…”

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The Strange Case of Sustained Dedication to an Unfulfilling Relationship: Predicting Commitment and Breakup From Attachment Anxiety and Need Fulfillment Within Relationships

Slotter¹,

Finkel²

2009

Pers Soc Psychol Bull

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Two studies investigated whether need fulfillment within relationships moderates the associations of attachment anxiety with relationship commitment and persistence. The authors hypothesized that individuals who experience low attachment anxiety would exhibit declining commitment and increased risk of breakup if their partner failed to meet their core psychological needs, whereas individuals who experience high attachment anxiety would not. Study 1 employed longitudinal procedures to examine the associations among need fulfillment within relationships, attachment anxiety, commitment, and breakup. Study 2 employed experimental procedures to examine whether the temporary activation of attachment anxiety alters the association of need fulfillment with commitment. As predicted, relative to their high anxiety counterparts, individuals experiencing low attachment anxiety reported less commitment at study entry (Studies 1 and 2), declining commitment over time (Study 1), and an increased risk of breakup (Study 1)—but only when their partner failed to help them fulfill their relatedness and autonomy needs.

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“…Identifying such processes is instructive from both salutogenic and pathogenic points of view (e.g., Wei, Shaffer, Young, & Zakalik, 2005), as identity development can lead to both wellbeing and distress (or even pathology in the case of a problematic identity pathway). A prime candidate in this respect is the amount of basic need satisfaction individuals experience in their daily lives, a concept advanced in SDT.…”

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Basic need satisfaction and identity formation: Bridging self-determination theory and process-oriented identity research.

Luyckx¹,

Vansteenkiste²,

Goossens³

et al. 2009

Journal of Counseling Psychology

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The fulfillment of the basic psychological needs for autonomy, competence, and relatedness as postulated within self-determination theory was hypothesized to play an energizing role in identity formation, conceptualized as multiple dimensions of exploration and commitment. Two studies among high school and college students (N ϭ 714) were conducted to investigate (a) the cross-sectional relationships between need satisfaction and the identity dimensions and (b) the direction of effects using cross-lagged analyses. Three competing longitudinal models were tested: a need satisfaction main-effects model, an identity main-effects model, and a reciprocal effects model. All 3 needs had meaningful relationships with the identity dimensions, and, although there was a predominance of paths from the needs to the identity dimensions, the reciprocal effects model received most support. Further, identity statuses (representing multivariate combinations of the identity dimensions) were meaningfully related to satisfaction of the 3 needs, with identity achievement scoring highest on all 3 indices of need satisfaction. Suggestions for future research and counseling implications are discussed.

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Adult Attachment, Shame, Depression, and Loneliness: The Mediation Role of Basic Psychological Needs Satisfaction.

Cited by 297 publications

References 65 publications

Attachment Anxiety, Basic Psychological Needs Satisfaction and Depressive Symptoms in University Students: A Mediation Analysis Approach

Attachment Anxiety, Basic Psychological Needs Satisfaction and Depressive Symptoms in University Students: A Mediation Analysis Approach

The Strange Case of Sustained Dedication to an Unfulfilling Relationship: Predicting Commitment and Breakup From Attachment Anxiety and Need Fulfillment Within Relationships

Basic need satisfaction and identity formation: Bridging self-determination theory and process-oriented identity research.

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