Attachment in adolescence: A move to the level of emotion regulation

Allen, Joseph P.; Miga, Erin M.

doi:10.1177/0265407509360898

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“…The overall pattern of results across these studies support that attachment anxiety and avoidance are associated with heightened autonomic reactivity. Such findings are consistent with the notion that attachment insecurity is associated with deficits in emotion regulation (Allen & Miga, 2010;Mikulincer et al, 2003). Furthermore, attachment systems appear to be implicated in individual differences of autonomic capacities for effective emotion regulation.…”

Section: Relationship Between Hrv and Factors Of Psychological Resilisupporting

confidence: 90%

The STRIVE-ONR Project: Stress Resistance in Virtual Environments

Buckwalter¹

2015

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The public reporting burden for this collection of information is estimated to average 1 hour per response, including the time for reviewing instructions, searching existing data sources, gathering and maintaining the data needed, and completing and reviewing the collection of information. Send comments regarding this burden estimate or any o:her aspect of this collection of information, including suggestions for reducing the burden, to Department of Defense, Washington Headquarters Services, Directorate for Information Operations and Reports (0704-0188), 1215 Jefferson Davis Highway, Suite 1204, Arlington, VA 22202-4302. Respondents should be aware that notwithstanding any o:her provision of law, no person shall be subject to any penalty for failing to comply with a collection of information if it does not display a currently valid OMB control number PLEASE DO NOT RETURN YOUR FORM TO THE ABOVE ADDRESS. REPORT DATE ^DD-MM-WYVj 07/29/2015 REPORTTYPE FINAL TECHNICAL REPORT TITLE AND SUBTITLEThe STRIVE-ONR Project: Stress Resistance in Virtual Environments AUTHOR(S)Buckwalter, J. Galen PERFORMING ORGANIZATION NAME(S) AND ADDRESS(ES)University of Southern California 3720 S. Flower Street Los Angeles, CA 90007-0701 SPONSORING/MONITORING AGENCY NAME(S) AND ADDRESS(ES)Office SPONSOR/MONITOR'S ACRONYM(S) ONR SPONSOR/MONITOR'S REPORT NUMBER(S) SUPPLEMENTARY NOTES ABSTRACT ~STRIVE is a story-driven approach to using virtual reality (VR) for understanding and training psychological resilience in service members prior to a combat deployment. This effort is based on two scientific principles: 1) pre-exposure to traumatic events within a safe environment provides some degree of protection for those later exposed to subsequent trauma and 2) resilience, or the rate and effectiveness with which someone returns to normal after stress, can be strengthened through systematic training. This project created the fifth episode (of six) of STRIVE and also resulted in four papers. Interaction by SMs within such emotionally challenging scenarios aims to provide a more meaningful context in which to learn and practice psychoeducational and cognitive coping strategies that research suggests plays a supportive role in the psychological preparation for a combat deployment. To accomplish this, STRIVE has been designed as a multi-episode interactive narrative in VR, akin to being immersed within a "Band of Brothers" type storyline that spans a typical deployment cycle. We currently have an initial story arc of six episodes created that will be used in the research that is now being proposed. At the end of each of the graded 10-minute episodes, an emotionally challenging event occurs, designed in part from feedback provided by SMs undergoing PTSD VRET (e.g., seeing/handling human remains, direct threat to safety via an IED attack in a vehicle, moral challenges due to culturally relativistic events (wife beating), the death of a civilian child, death of a squad member, grief processing in theatre). At that point in the episode, the virtual worl...

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Section: Relationship Between Hrv and Factors Of Psychological Resilisupporting

confidence: 90%

The STRIVE-ONR Project: Stress Resistance in Virtual Environments

Buckwalter¹

2015

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“…It extends the literature on attachment and mindfulness by identifying mediating variables associated with maladaptive, but potentially modifiable, cognitive-emotional patterns. Like other attachment investigators (Allen & Miga, 2010), we have advocated for a "move to the level of emotion regulation" in attachment research, a move that, in our opinion, will open the door to more effective clinical interventions for healing attachment-related wounds. Mindfulness may play an important role in this process by shifting peoples' experiences of themselves, others, and their environments in ways that foster personal and interpersonal well-being.…”

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Mediators of the Link Between Adult Attachment and Mindfulness

Caldwell

Shaver

2013

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The capacity to be mindfully aware of the present moment without judgment is associated with a number of positive psychological and physiological outcomes. Experiences in attachment relationships are related to specific cognitive-emotional patterns that may contribute to dispositional mindfulness. A sample of adults (N = 93) completed questionnaires regarding adult attachment, rumination, thought suppression, attentional control, and mindfulness. Attachment-related avoidance predicted lower levels of mindfulness, a relation mediated by thought suppression and poorer attentional control. Attachment-related anxiety also predicted lower levels of mindfulness, a relation mediated by rumination and poorer attentional control. The results suggest that in the context of insecure attachment relationships thought suppression and rumination defend against personal and interpersonal losses by deactivating (in the case of avoidance) or hyperactivating (in the case of anxiety) the attachment system. These habitual defensive patterns may be important links between adult attachment orientations and mindfulness.

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“…Close friends become significant attachment figures who can represent a secure base for the youth as they manage the emotional stress and challenges of adolescence (Meurling, Ray, & LoBello, 1999). Research has shown that peer relationship qualities are more strongly associated with adolescent attachment security than are parental relationship qualities, even during early and mid-adolescence (Allen & Miga, 2010). Yet the quality of an adolescent's friends can vary, either serving as a positive source of emotional support and caring or contributing to fears of rejection and psychological insecurity.…”

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confidence: 99%