Attachment, Group–Related Processes, and Psychotherapy

Mediating Role of Cognitive Emotion Regulation Strategies on the Relationship between the Attachment Styles and Emotional Problems: A Path Analysis

“…The results of the study indicated that the relationship between attachment dimensions and stress, anxiety and depressive symptoms was significant. The outcomes are consistent with studies that provide evidence that attachment insecurity plays a role in clinically relevant indicators of distress, such as depression and interpersonal problems, through mediating psychological processes (15,22,49). Also, in line with the findings of the study, numerous studies show the mediating role of positive and negative cognitive emotion regulation strategies in the relationship between attachment styles and other emotional problems (28,50).…”

“…For further explanation of this process, we can discuss that attachment system active against perceived threats and fear to regulate stress response (22). Attachment system promotes processes include primary attachment be- regulating their stress-responses by calling upon mental representations of internalized attachment figures socalled internal working models.…”

“…Studies showed that depression and anxiety exists in students with anxious attachment more than individuals with dependent attachment (dependability of others). Meta-analysis of 100 studies indicated that there was a negative association between a secure attachment and anxiety and depression (22).…”

“…Clarifying the mechanisms by which attachment dimensions cause clinical symptoms such as depression, anxiety and interpersonal problems, has increasingly become a subject of interest (22). Dewitte, Houwer, Goubert and Buysse declared that the attachment of the internal working models influences strategies of emotion regulation (23).…”

Attachment theory within clinical supervision: application of the conceptual to the empirical

“…Other studies have used continuous measurement of attachment avoidance and anxiety to place a person on a circumplex (e.g. high anxiety and avoidance is fearful; low anxiety and high avoidance, dismissing) (Brennan, Clark, & Shaver, 1998;Fraley, Heffernan, Vicary, & Brumbaugh, 2011;Mikulincer & Shaver, 2007b).…”