Attachment Anxiety as a Mediator of the Relationship between Interpersonal Trauma and Posttraumatic Symptomatology among College Women

Autor/inn/en	Sandberg, David A.; Suess, Eric A.; Heaton, Jessica L.
Titel	Attachment Anxiety as a Mediator of the Relationship between Interpersonal Trauma and Posttraumatic Symptomatology among College Women
Quelle	In: Journal of Interpersonal Violence, 25 (2010) 1, S.33-49 (17 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0886-2605
DOI	10.1177/0886260508329126
Schlagwörter	Child Abuse; Posttraumatic Stress Disorder; Path Analysis; Anxiety; Attachment Behavior; College Students; Females; Symptoms (Individual Disorders); Identification; Intervention; Violence; Interpersonal Relationship + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Abuse of children; Abuse; Child; Children; Kindesmissbrauch; Missbrauch; Kind; Kinder; Pfadanalyse; Angst; Attachment; Bindungsverhalten; Collegestudent; Weibliches Geschlecht; Psychiatrische Symptomatik; Identifikation; Identifizierung; Gewalt; Interpersonal relation; Interpersonal relations; Interpersonelle Beziehung; Zwischenmenschliche Beziehung
Abstract	The identification of variables that mediate the relationship between traumatic life events and posttraumatic symptomatology could help elucidate underlying causal mechanisms and improve therapeutic intervention offered to individuals suffering from posttraumatic stress. The authors examined whether adult attachment, as measured by Brennan, Clark, and Shaver's Experiences in Close Relationships Inventory, mediates the relationship between a broad range of traumatic life events and posttraumatic symptomatology. Participants were 224 ethnically diverse college women. Path analysis indicated that attachment anxiety partially mediated the link between intimate partner violence and posttraumatic symptomatology, as well as the link between adolescent or adult sexual victimization and posttraumatic symptomatology. Attachment avoidance, although associated with posttraumatic stress, did not mediate the relationship between traumatic life events and PTSD symptoms. (Contains 1 table and 1 figure.) (As Provided).
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Update	2017/4/10