Attachment style classification and posttraumatic stress disorder in former prisoners of war.

Dieperink, Michael E.; Leskela, Jennie; Thuras, Paul; Engdahl, Brian

doi:10.1037/0002-9432.71.3.374

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“…As neither the 'dose-effect curve' hypothesis nor aspects that are specific to the type of CI could fully account for this, research oriented itself towards subjective factors. The assumption is that subjective factors moderate between a CI and the development of a PTSD (Dieperink, Leskela, Thuras, & Engdahl, 2001;Marmar et al, 1999;Spitzer et al, 2000). A subjective factor that has been the object of several studies is adult attachment.…”

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Distress and post‐traumatic stress disorders in high risk professionals: adult attachment style and the dimensions of anxiety and avoidance

Declercq¹,

Willemsen²

2006

Clin Psychology and Psychoth

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This study examines the relationship between adult attachment and psychological distress in a population of 544 people working for a security company and for the Belgian Red Cross. The results indicate that fearful-avoidant and preoccupied attached individuals report more stress than secure attached and insecure attached individuals of the dismissive type. Next, the same attachment styles appear to differentiate between individuals who do and individuals who do not develop a post-traumatic stress syndrome (PTSD) after being confronted with a critical incident. Breaking the attachment styles into the two underlying dimensions of attachment anxiety and avoidance, our results suggest that anxiety is more of an issue than avoidance in psychological distress and the occurrence of PTSD.

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Distress and post‐traumatic stress disorders in high risk professionals: adult attachment style and the dimensions of anxiety and avoidance

Declercq¹,

Willemsen²

2006

Clin Psychology and Psychoth

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“…Thus, one candidate variable that is likely to be associated with PTSD symptoms and academic burnout is parental attachment (Aspelmeier, Elliott, & Smith, 2007; Duchesne & Larose, 2007; Han, 2006). Lack of stress-reducing secure attachment often results in PTSD in adolescents (Benoit, Bouthillier, Moss, Rousseau, & Brunet, 2010; Dieperink, Leskela, Thuras, & Engdahl, 2001). Many researchers have theorized and investigated parental attachment as a resiliency factor for traumatized children and adolescents (e.g.…”

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Dispositional mindfulness mediates the relationships of parental attachment to posttraumatic stress disorder and academic burnout in adolescents following the Yancheng tornado

Yuan

Liu

et al. 2018

European Journal of Psychotraumatology

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Background: Previous studies have shown that parental attachment is associated with low severity of posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and low academic burnout in individuals who have experienced traumatic events. Objective: The present study investigated the ways in which parental attachment is related to PTSD symptoms and academic burnout in Chinese traumatized adolescents by considering the role of dispositional mindfulness. Method: A total of 443 Chinese adolescents who had experienced a severe tornado one year prior to this study completed measures of parental attachment, dispositional mindfulness, PTSD and academic burnout. Results: The results showed that our model fitted the data well [χ2/df = 2.968, CFI = 0.971, TLI = 0.955, RMSEA (90% CI) = 0.067 (0.052–0.082)] and revealed that dispositional mindfulness partially mediates the relationship between parental attachment, PTSD severity and academic burnout. Conclusions: The findings suggested that dispositional mindfulness and parental attachment may be two critical resources in dealing with traumatization and academic burnout.

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“…In other words, attachment insecurity may predispose a traumatized person to PTSD. Although this sequence of events and the direction of causality of the attachment-PTSD link have not been directly examined, numerous studies have found that attachment insecurities are associated with PTSD, regardless of the type or severity of the traumatic event (e.g., Dieperink, Leskela, Thuras, & Engdahl, 2001;Fraley, Fazzari, Bonanno, & Dekel, 2006;Muller & Lemieux, 2000). In an earlier study of the cohort of ex-POWs from the 1973 Yom Kippur War that we are examining in the present study, Solomon, Ginzburg, Mikulincer, Neria, and Ohry (1998) found that anxious attachment was associated with more severe PTSD symptoms even 20 years after the war.…”

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Together in pain: Attachment-related dyadic processes and posttraumatic stress disorder.

Ein‐Dor¹,

Doron²,

Solomon³

et al. 2010

Journal of Counseling Psychology

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We used actor-partner interdependence modeling to explore associations among attachment-related dyadic processes, posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) in war veterans, and secondary traumatic stress (STS) in their wives. A sample of 157 Israeli couples (85 former prisoners of war and their wives and a comparison group of 72 veterans not held captive and their wives) completed self-report scales assessing attachment insecurities (anxiety, avoidance) and PTSD symptoms. For both groups of veterans and their wives, attachment anxiety was associated with the severity of their own and their spouses' PTSD and STS. Avoidant attachment was associated with PTSD and STS only in couples that included a former prisoner of war. A complex pattern of associations involving avoidant attachment was observed in the actor-partner analyses of these couples. The study demonstrates that attachment-related dyadic processes play a role in the development and maintenance of PTSD in traumatized veterans and STS in their wives.

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Attachment style classification and posttraumatic stress disorder in former prisoners of war.

Cited by 95 publications

References 27 publications

Distress and post‐traumatic stress disorders in high risk professionals: adult attachment style and the dimensions of anxiety and avoidance

Distress and post‐traumatic stress disorders in high risk professionals: adult attachment style and the dimensions of anxiety and avoidance

Dispositional mindfulness mediates the relationships of parental attachment to posttraumatic stress disorder and academic burnout in adolescents following the Yancheng tornado

Together in pain: Attachment-related dyadic processes and posttraumatic stress disorder.

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