Attachment and Emotion Regulation Strategies in Predicting Adult Psychopathology

Katherine Pascuzzo, Ellen Moss and Chantal Cyr

SAGE Open, 2015, vol. 5, issue 3, 2158244015604695

Abstract: This study tested a 10-year longitudinal model examining the role of adolescent attachment, adult romantic attachment, and emotion regulation strategies on adult symptoms of psychopathology. Fifty individuals completed a measure of attachment security to parents and peers at age 14, measures of romantic attachment and emotion regulation at age 22, and a measure of psychopathology at age 24. Results revealed that attachment insecurity to parents in adolescence was associated with greater symptoms of psychopathology in adulthood, and emotion-focused strategies partially mediated this association. Anxious romantic attachment was also related to psychopathology, an association that was fully mediated by emotion-focused strategies. The long-term mechanism involved in the association between earlier attachment and future adaptation will be discussed.

Keywords: adolescent attachment; adult romantic attachment; emotion regulation strategies; psychopathology (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2015
References: View complete reference list from CitEc
Citations: View citations in EconPapers (4)

Downloads: (external link)
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/2158244015604695 (text/html)

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:sae:sagope:v:5:y:2015:i:3:p:2158244015604695

DOI: 10.1177/2158244015604695

Access Statistics for this article

More articles in SAGE Open
Bibliographic data for series maintained by SAGE Publications ().