The Association Between Childhood Maltreatment and Coping Strategies: The Indirect Effect Through Attachment

Autor: Timothy Anderson, Matthew R. Perlman, Christina M. Dardis, Theresa E. Egan, Anne E. Dawson
Rok vydání: 2016
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Zdroj: The Journal of Genetic Psychology. 177:156-171
ISSN: 1940-0896
0022-1325
Popis: Maladaptive coping strategies represent a potentially treatable component of psychopathologies associated with childhood abuse and neglect. Coping strategies are relatively stable constructs that may be viewed as trait-like behavioral manifestations of larger, albeit less accessible, intra- and interpersonal processes, such as activation of the attachment system. The authors investigated a potential mediational pathway from childhood maltreatment (in the form of physical and emotional abuse experiences) to coping strategies developed in emerging adulthood through attachment organization in a sample of undergraduate psychology research participants at a public Midwestern university (N = 225). Avoidant attachment patterns helped to explain the relationship between increased instances of childhood maltreatment and a decreased use of adaptive coping strategies. Further, both anxious and avoidant attachment mediated the relationship between childhood maltreatment and an increased use of maladaptive cop...
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