Attachment, support seeking, and adaptive inferential feedback: Implications for psychological health

DeFronzo, Roseanne; Panzarella, Catherine; Butler, Andrew C.

doi:10.1016/s1077-7229(01)80043-2

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“…That, in turn, opens up possibilities for students to meet and develop relationships with potential NMRs. These findings are also consistent with past research that shows that parental attachment is associated with coping and help-seeking from teachers (DeFronzo & Butler, 2001;Larose et al, 1999;Moran, 2007) and the presence of social support (Barker, 2007;Boldero & Fallon, 1995).…”

Section: Predictors Of Natural Mentoringsupporting

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Predictors of natural mentoring relationships and students’ adjustment to college

Berardi

Sánchez

Kuperminc

2019

Journal Community Psychology

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Little research exists that examines natural mentoring relationships (NMRs) during the college transition. We examine the role of parental attachment and help‐seeking behaviors in students’ development of new NMRs and the role NMRs have on students’ outcomes. Included in the study were 215 first‐year students at a large, urban, private university. Participants completed surveys at the beginning (Time 1) and at the end (Time 2) of the school year. We used structural equation modeling to test a hypothesized model that included predictors (i.e., attachment to parents and help‐seeking behaviors) of NMRs and social and academic adjustment in college. Findings show a path relationship connecting the attachment to parents to help‐seeking behaviors, and then to the number of reported NMRs. Help‐seeking behaviors mediated the association between attachment and NMRs. The number of NMRs is associated with higher social adjustment, but not academic adjustment by the end of students’ first year of college. Based on these results, we discuss the theoretical implications of newly formed NMRs and provide guidance for institutional interventions targeting first‐year college students to assist with transition challenges.

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Section: Predictors Of Natural Mentoringsupporting

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Predictors of natural mentoring relationships and students’ adjustment to college

Berardi

Sánchez

Kuperminc

2019

Journal Community Psychology

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“…Given that individuals with insecure attachment styles are shown to be less likely to engage in support-seeking behavior, especially in times of stress (DeFronzo, Panzarella, & Butler, 2001;Mikulincer et al, 1993), the possibility exists that these programmes may not have reached the individuals who need and could benefit most. Vigorous efforts to encourage or compel individuals to follow these programmes would not be a solution because they would be unethical and most probably ineffective as well (Gray & Litz, 2005).…”

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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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“…In contrast, high levels of avoidance are associated with stable, low levels of support in childhood. These experiences lead avoidantly attached individuals to have chronically deactivated attachment systems (Gillath et al, 2006) as well as discomfort with closeness or reliance on others (e.g., DeFronzo, Panzarella, & Butler, 2001;Mikulincer & Nachshon, 1991).…”

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Conflicting Pressures on Romantic Relationship Commitment for Anxiously Attached Individuals

Joel

MacDonald

Shimotomai

2011

Journal of Personality

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Anxious attachment predicts strong desires for intimacy and stability in romantic relationships, yet the relation between anxious attachment and romantic commitment is unclear. We propose that extant literature has failed to find a consistent relation because anxiously attached individuals experience conflicting pressures on commitment. Data from Australia (N=137) show that relationship satisfaction and felt security each act as suppressors of a positive relation between anxious attachment and commitment. Data from Japan (N=159) replicate the suppression effect of felt security and also demonstrate that the residual positive relation between anxious attachment and commitment can be partly explained by dependence on the partner. These findings suggest that anxiously attached individuals may be ambivalent about commitment. Dissatisfaction and worries about negative evaluation appear to exert downward pressure on commitment, counteracting the upward pressure that is exerted by factors such as relational dependency.

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Attachment, support seeking, and adaptive inferential feedback: Implications for psychological health

Cited by 29 publications

References 20 publications

Predictors of natural mentoring relationships and students’ adjustment to college

Predictors of natural mentoring relationships and students’ adjustment to college

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

Conflicting Pressures on Romantic Relationship Commitment for Anxiously Attached Individuals

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