Insecure Attachment as a Risk Factor for the Development of Anxiety and Depression Symptoms in a Sample of Mexican Adults

Maternal adult attachment and mother-adolescent attachment: the chain mediating role of marital satisfaction and harsh parenting

“…The results suggest that maternal marital satisfaction mediates the relationship between maternal adult attachment and mother-adolescent attachment, consistent with some previous research (33,44). Both adult attachment-avoidant and anxious mothers adopt more anachronistic patterns of interaction in their marital relationships causing marital tension (attachment-avoidant mothers adopt more avoidant, nonresponsive ways of responding to their partners' intimacy needs, and attachment-anxious mothers over-control their partners and repeatedly confirm their worthiness of being loved, both of which strategies contribute to marital tension and thus reduce marital satisfaction) (45). According to the spillover hypothesis of family systems theory, mothers' emotions and behaviors in the marital subsystem spillover to the parentchild subsystem to influence mother-child interaction processes, which in turn affects the quality of mother-adolescent attachment (12).…”

“…The results suggest that maternal harsh parenting mediates the relationship between maternal adult attachment and mother-adolescent attachment, which is consistent with the study hypothesis. Mothers with adult attachment avoidance and adult attachment anxiety were less able to regulate and control their own emotions than mothers with secure adult attachment and faced more difficulties in regulating their own emotions ( 46 ). Mothers who are attached to avoidance and anxiety in their marital life have more dysphoria and conflict with their husbands than mothers who are attached to security ( 47 ), and this dysphoria is transferred to interactions with adolescents.…”

Attachment, Mental Health, and Alcohol Use by Men: The Mediating Role of Cumulative Lifetime Violence Severity

“…In contrast to the alcohol use model, the findings that both attachment anxiety and attachment avoidance directly affected the mental health outcomes independent of the indirect effects through CLVS build on existing research supporting the direct association between insecure attachment and mental health problems (Dagan et al, 2018;Santiago et al, 2021). However, the finding that the CLVS mediation between insecure attachment and mental health held for only anxious attachment may be because anxious attachment is the primary contributor to the breakdown of one's sense of connection to others (Sharfstein, 1998), thereby negatively affecting cognitive, emotional, and behavioral patterns (Dagan et al, 2018;Santiago et al, 2021). Fears of rejection and persistent proximityseeking of men with anxious attachment may make them vulnerable to feeling depressed or lonely, anxious about losing interpersonal connections, and make it more difficult to manage mental health symptoms.…”

Validación Chilena del Cuestionario de Evaluación de Apego en el adulto CaMir versión abreviada

“…Es así como estudios previos han apoyado la relación entre psicopatología y la inseguridad en el apego, presentándose como un factor de riesgo para el desarrollo de ciertos cuadros (Alonso et al, 2018;Carr et al, 2018;Dagan et al, 2018;DeKlyen y Greenberg, 2016;Herstell, 2021;Lyons-Ruth y Jacobvitz, 2016;Stovall-McClough y Dozier, 2016). Investigaciones recientes han mostrado la relación de la inseguridad en el apego con sintomatología depresiva (Garrido-Rojas et al, 2015;Kuan mak et al, 2010;Rosas et al, 2021;Zheng et al, 2020), sintomatología ansiosa (Santelices et al, 2011), trastornos de personalidad (Causera y Peris, 2015), desórdenes alimentarios (Tasca et al, 2017), uso problemático, consumo y dependencia de sustancias (Cócola, 2022;Espinoza et al, 2022;Pierrehumbert et al, 2002), vulnerabilidad suicida (Boyda et al, 2018), vulnerabilidad para la psicosis (Uhlhaas et al, 2017), entre otras.…”