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

Abstract

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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“…Several findings are worth highlighting. Notably, greater attachment anxiety has been found to predict heightened risk of PTSS among a variety of populations, including but not limited to, the following: intimate partner violence survivors (e.g., Lilly & Lim, 2013), persons exposed to terrorist attacks (e.g., Fraley, Fazzari, Bonanno, & Dekel, 2006), survivors of childhood trauma (e.g., Busuito, Huth-Bocks, & Puro, 2014), Holocaust survivors (e.g., Cohen, Dekel, & Solomon, 2002), prisoners of war (POWs; e.g., Dieperink, Leskela, Thuras, & Engdahl, 2001), security employees (e.g., Bogaerts, Kunst, & Winkel, 2009), torture victims (e.g., Kanninen, Punamäki, & Qouta, 2003), combat veterans (e.g., Ghafoori, Hierholzer, Howsepian, & Boardman, 2008), therapists with vicarious exposure (e.g., Marmaras, Lee, Siegel, & Reich, 2003), persons exposed to natural disasters (e.g., An, Yuan, Liu, Zhou, & Xu, 2018), survivors of motor vehicle accidents (e.g., Andersen, Elklit, & Vase, 2011), clinical populations (e.g., Karatzias et al, 2018), and trauma-exposed college students (e.g., Shallcross, Frazier, & Anders, 2014).…”

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