Pathways to Adolescent Internalizing: Early Attachment Insecurity as a Lasting Source of Vulnerability

Autor/inn/en	Milan, Stephanie; Zona, Kate; Snow, Stephanie
Titel	Pathways to Adolescent Internalizing: Early Attachment Insecurity as a Lasting Source of Vulnerability
Quelle	In: Journal of Clinical Child and Adolescent Psychology, 42 (2013) 3, S.371-383 (13 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1537-4416
DOI	10.1080/15374416.2012.736357
Schlagwörter	Structural Equation Models; Adolescents; Behavior Problems; Mothers; Emotional Response; Parent Child Relationship; Prediction; Attachment Behavior; Security (Psychology); Symptoms (Individual Disorders); Young Children; Gender Differences; Correlation; Scores; Participant Characteristics; Longitudinal Studies; Center for Epidemiologic Studies Depression Scale; Childrens Depression Inventory; State Trait Anxiety Inventory + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Adolescent; Adolescence; Adoleszenz; Jugend; Jugendalter; Jugendlicher; Mother; Mutter; Emotionales Verhalten; Parents-child relationship; Parent-child-relation; Parent-child relationship; Eltern-Kind-Beziehung; Vorhersage; Attachment; Bindungsverhalten; Security; Psychology; Sicherheit; Psychiatrische Symptomatik; Frühe Kindheit; Geschlechterkonflikt; Korrelation; Longitudinal study; Longitudinal method; Longitudinal methods; Längsschnittuntersuchung
Abstract	Despite theoretical links between attachment quality in early childhood and subsequent internalizing symptoms, there is limited empirical evidence supporting direct effects. In this article, we test whether early attachment insecurity indirectly contributes to adolescent internalizing by increasing the likelihood of certain pathways leading to elevated symptoms (i.e., moderated mediation). Structural equation modeling and bootstrapping were used to test for moderated mediation using longitudinal data from 910 adolescents participating in the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development Study of Early Child Care ("M" age = 15.1; 50% female, 23% racial/ethnic minority). Among dyads with a history of an insecure attachment in early childhood, mothers' negative emotions during the transition to adolescence significantly predicted less availability during parent-adolescent interactions, which in turn increased adolescents' preoccupation with parental relationships. The same process was not evident in youth with a history of secure attachments. However, the extent to which preoccupation with parental relationships was associated with increases in internalizing symptoms depended on both attachment history and gender. Results highlight one pathway by which early attachment history may indirectly contribute to increased internalizing symptoms for girls during the transition to adolescence. (Contains 4 figures and 4 tables.) (As Provided).
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