Childhood Emotional Abuse and the Attachment System Across the Life Cycle: What Theory and Research Tell Us

Riggs, Shelley A.

doi:10.1080/10926770903475968

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“…In particular, emotional abuse showed the highest metrics among them and also had the strongest centrality across all metrics in the network. This result supports previous research underlining the impact of emotional abuse on aggression and psychopathology (Auslander, Tlapek, Threlfall, Edmond, & Dunn, 2015; Riggs, 2010). Moreover, Spertus et al (2003) demonstrated that emotional abuse predicted symptomatology even when controlling for other types of abuse and lifetime trauma exposure.…”

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A network analysis of anger, shame, proposed ICD-11 post-traumatic stress disorder, and different types of childhood trauma in foster care settings in a sample of adult survivors

Glück

Knefel

2017

European Journal of Psychotraumatology

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Background: Anger and shame are aspects that are specifically associated with psychopathology and maladaptation after childhood abuse and neglect. They are known to influence symptom maintenance and exacerbation; however, their interaction is not fully understood. Objective: To explore with network analysis the association and interaction of prolonged, complex interpersonal childhood abuse and neglect in institutional foster care settings [institutional abuse (IA)] with anger, shame, and the proposed 11th revision of the International Statistical Classification of Diseases and Related Health Problems (ICD-11) post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) symptoms in adult survivors. Method: Adult survivors of IA (N = 220, mean age = 57.95 years) participated in the study and were interviewed using the Childhood Trauma Questionnaire, the International Trauma Questionnaire, the State–Trait Anger Expression Inventory, the Displaced Aggression Questionnaire, and shame-related items. To identify the most central aspects, we used a staged network analysis and centrality analysis approach: (1) on the scale level; (2) on the item/symptom level; and (3) with modularity analysis to find communities within the item-level network. Results: Trait anger, anger rumination, emotional abuse, and PTSD re-experiencing symptoms played the most important roles on a scale level and were then further analyzed on the item/symptom level. The most central symptom on the item level was anger rumination related to meaningful past events. The modularity analysis supported discriminant validity of the included scales. Conclusions: Anger is an important factor in the psychopathological processes following childhood abuse. Anger rumination is closely related to PTSD symptoms; however, anger is not a part of the proposed ICD-11 PTSD in the present study.

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confidence: 91%

A network analysis of anger, shame, proposed ICD-11 post-traumatic stress disorder, and different types of childhood trauma in foster care settings in a sample of adult survivors

Glück

Knefel

2017

European Journal of Psychotraumatology

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“…Korver-Nieberg et al, 2014;Velikonja et al, 2015). In the current study, trauma was also associated with attachment as would be expected from existing research (Murphy et al, 2014;Riggs, 2010). The consequences of early trauma histories and attachment difficulties, such as difficulties in interpersonal relationships, problems regulating affect and negative beliefs about the self and others have been implicated in psychological models of the development of psychosis (Korver-Nieberg et al, 2015).…”

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Investigation of associations between attachment, parenting and schizotypy during the postnatal period

Hugill

Fletcher

Berry

2017

Journal of Affective Disorders

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“…Infants exposed to maltreatment tend to display an insecure type of attachment [47]. In addition, the previous research has proved the link between emotional abuse in childhood and development of an insecure type of attachment [48]. It was suggested by Riggs and Kaminski [49] that emotional abuse experienced in the childhood was a unique sign of severe attachment anxiety among other forms of child maltreatment and that solely emotional maltreatment posed an additional risk for insecure attachment, although all forms of childhood maltreatment were likely to be significantly associated with insecure adult attachment.…”

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The Link between Types of Attachment and Childhood Trauma

Erözkan¹

2016

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The study investigated the relationship between childhood trauma and types of attachment and the predictive role of childhood trauma on types of attachment. The sample was composed of 911 (492 female; 419 male) university students at Mugla Sitki Kocman University, in Turkey. Data were collected using the brief screening version of the Childhood Trauma Questionnaire and Relationship Scales Questionnaire. Pearson product-moment correlation analysis was employed to search for relationship between childhood trauma and types of attachment; structural equation modeling was also used for explaining the predictive role of childhood trauma on types of attachment. It was found that the physical, emotional, and sexual abuse, and physical and emotional neglect subdimensions of childhood trauma were positively related to fearful, preoccupied, and dismissing attachment styles; whereas these same variables were negatively related to the secure attachment style. Results were discussed in the light of previous findings and in the context of childhood trauma and attachment styles. Further replications using larger samples should be conducted to explore the relationship between childhood trauma and attachment styles.

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Childhood Emotional Abuse and the Attachment System Across the Life Cycle: What Theory and Research Tell Us

Cited by 232 publications

References 174 publications

A network analysis of anger, shame, proposed ICD-11 post-traumatic stress disorder, and different types of childhood trauma in foster care settings in a sample of adult survivors

A network analysis of anger, shame, proposed ICD-11 post-traumatic stress disorder, and different types of childhood trauma in foster care settings in a sample of adult survivors

Investigation of associations between attachment, parenting and schizotypy during the postnatal period

The Link between Types of Attachment and Childhood Trauma

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