The Relation between Insecure Attachment and Child Anxiety: A Meta-Analytic Review

Autor/inn/en	Colonnesi, Cristina; Draijer, Evalijn M.; Stams, Geert Jan J. M.; Van der Bruggen, Corine O.; Bogels, Susan M.; Noom, Marc J.
Titel	The Relation between Insecure Attachment and Child Anxiety: A Meta-Analytic Review
Quelle	In: Journal of Clinical Child and Adolescent Psychology, 40 (2011) 4, S.630-645 (16 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1537-4416
Schlagwörter	Attachment Behavior; Foreign Countries; Anxiety; Child Behavior; Psychological Patterns; Meta Analysis; Correlation; Young Children; Adolescents; Effect Size; Age Differences; Questionnaires; Research Methodology; Socioeconomic Status; At Risk Persons; Parent Child Relationship; Child Behavior Checklist; Childrens Manifest Anxiety Scale; State Trait Anxiety Inventory + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Attachment; Bindungsverhalten; Ausland; Angst; Meta-analysis; Metaanalyse; Korrelation; Frühe Kindheit; Adolescent; Adolescence; Adoleszenz; Jugend; Jugendalter; Jugendlicher; Age; Difference; Age difference; Altersunterschied; Fragebogen; Research method; Forschungsmethode; Socio-economic status; Sozioökonomischer Status; Risikogruppe; Parents-child relationship; Parent-child-relation; Parent-child relationship; Eltern-Kind-Beziehung
Abstract	Attachment theory suggests that children's attachment insecurity plays a key role in the development of anxiety. In the present study we evaluated the empirical evidence for the link between insecure attachment and anxiety from early childhood to adolescence. A meta-analysis of 46 studies, from 1984 to 2010, including 8,907 children, was conducted. The results show an overall effect size of r = 0.30, indicating that attachment is moderately related to anxiety. Moderator analyses indicated that ambivalent attachment showed the strongest association with anxiety. Further, the relation was stronger during adolescence, when attachment and anxiety were measured through questionnaires, when the informant was the child, when attachment was measured as internal working model, in cross-sectional studies, and in studies conducted in Europe. No difference was found between studies that measured anxiety as symptoms or as a disorder, and when different kinds of anxiety were considered. (Contains 3 tables.) (As Provided).
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Update	2017/4/10