Attachment Anxiety, Basic Psychological Needs Satisfaction and Depressive Symptoms in University Students: A Mediation Analysis Approach

Constantinos Kormas, Georgia Karamali and Fotios Anagnostopoulos

International Journal of Psychological Studies, 2014, vol. 6, issue 2, 1

Abstract: This study examined the mediating role of basic psychological needs satisfaction in the relationship betweenattachment anxiety and depressive symptoms in university students. The following measurement instrumentswere used to collect the data- Center for Epidemiologic Studies—Depression Scale, Experiences in CloseRelationships Scale and Basic Psychological Needs Satisfaction General—Scale. Mediated effects were exploredusing a series of regression analyses and were further confirmed through bootstrapping procedures. Resultsrevealed that basic psychological needs satisfaction partially mediated the relationship between attachmentanxiety and depression. These results indicated that attachment anxiety was connected with depressivesymptoms in more complicated ways than had traditionally been suggested. Implications of the findingstargeting basic psychological needs satisfaction in anxiously attached university students with higher levels ofdepressive symptoms for clinical practice are discussed.

Date: 2014
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