The Relationship between "Theory of Mind" and Attachment-Related Anxiety and Avoidance in Italian Adolescents

Autor/inn/en	Hunefeldt, Thomas; Laghi, Fiorenzo; Ortu, Francesca; Belardinelli, Marta Olivetti
Titel	The Relationship between "Theory of Mind" and Attachment-Related Anxiety and Avoidance in Italian Adolescents
Quelle	In: Journal of Adolescence, 36 (2013) 3, S.613-621 (9 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0140-1971
DOI	10.1016/j.adolescence.2013.03.012
Schlagwörter	Adolescents; Attachment Behavior; Anxiety; Theory of Mind; Foreign Countries; Interpersonal Relationship; Testing; Mothers; Parent Child Relationship; Correlation; Age Differences; Security (Psychology); Italy + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Adolescent; Adolescence; Adoleszenz; Jugend; Jugendalter; Jugendlicher; Attachment; Bindungsverhalten; Angst; Ausland; Interpersonal relation; Interpersonal relations; Interpersonelle Beziehung; Zwischenmenschliche Beziehung; Testdurchführung; Testen; Mother; Mutter; Parents-child relationship; Parent-child-relation; Parent-child relationship; Eltern-Kind-Beziehung; Korrelation; Age; Difference; Age difference; Altersunterschied; Security; Psychology; Sicherheit; Italien
Abstract	This study examined the relationship between "theory of mind" and attachment-related anxiety and avoidance in adolescence. The "Reading the Mind in the Eyes" test and the "Experiences in Close Relationships--Relationship Structures" questionnaires were administered to 402 14-19 year-old adolescents. Contrary to expectations, anxiety but not avoidance with mother was associated with less accurate mindreading, and this effect was stronger in younger than in older adolescents. Results might be explained in terms of the inconsistency of caregiver behavior that is supposed to cause anxious strategies, and thus illustrate the need to consider not only the effects, but also the causes of different types of insecure strategies. (Contains 4 tables.) (As Provided).
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Update	2017/4/10