Attachment, Social Competencies, Social Support, and Psychological Distress

By Brent Mallinckrodt, Meifen Wei. 2005

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Subfields: Clinical Psychology, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, Social Psychology

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Adult attachment measures: a 25-year review. (2010, background): “They are both widely used to measure romantic attachment (with excellent reliability) and to study the link of attachment with appraisal of social support [78], negative affectivity, and psychiatric symptomatology [55,79].”
Advances in testing the statistical significance of mediation effects. (2006, methodology): “…Bootstrap Estimation To provide a detailed illustration of how to conduct a bootstrap estimation analysis with a small sample of the type especially appropriate for this procedure, we drew a sample of 60 cases from a larger survey study of 430 students conducted by Mallinckrodt and Wei (2005).”
Adult Attachment, Social Self-Efficacy, Self-Disclosure, Loneliness, and Subsequent Depression for Freshman College Students: A Longitudinal Study (2005, background): “Mallinckrodt and Wei (2005) argued that enhancing social self-efficacy may be especially important for persons with high attachment anxiety.”
Helicopter Parenting: The Effect of an Overbearing Caregiving Style on Peer Attachment and Self-Efficacy. (2015, background): “In addition, self-efficacy has been found to be a significant mediator for both attachment anxiety and attachment avoidance on social support and psychological distress (Mallinckrodt & Wei, 2005).”
An Examination of the Role of Attachment and Efficacy in Life Satisfaction (2010, background): “…it is not uncommon for researchers to use subscales as multiple indicators of a latent variable (e.g., Tokar et al., 2003) or to parcel items on a scale or subscale to create multiple indicators that measure a latent variable (Coffman & MacCallum, 2005; Mallinckrodt & Wei, 2005; Wei et al., 2006).”
No harm in looking, right? Men’s pornography consumption, body image, and well-being. (2015, background): “Among college students, its scores have demonstrated evidence of internal consistency reliability ( s .92 and .94; Mallinckrodt & Wei, 2005), 6-month stability (rs .68 and .71; Lopez & Gormley, 2002), and construct validity via inverse relationships to social support (rs .35 and .44; Mallinckrodt &…”
The Relationships among Attachment Style, Personality Traits, Interpersonal Competency, and Facebook Use (2012, background): “Mallinckrodt and Wei (2005) found that social self-efficacy and emotional awareness mediated the relationship of attachment and psychological distress and perceptions of social support.”
Adult Attachment and Help-Seeking Intent: The Mediating Roles of Psychological Distress and Perceived Social Support. (2005, background): “…be positively associated with self-concealment, self-splitting, and personal problems (Lopez et al., 2002) and maladaptive perfectionism and depressed mood (Wei, Mallinckrodt, et al., 2004) and negatively associated with social self-efficacy and emotional self-awareness (Mallinckrodt & Wei, 2005).”
The Effect of a Real Dog, Toy Dog and Friendly Person on Insecurely Attached Children During a Stressful Task: An Exploratory Study (2011, background): “…ambivalent attachment perceive a given stressful situation as significantly more stressful than securely attached participants (Mallinckrodt 2000; Mallinckrodt and Wei 2005; Ditzen et al. 2008; assessed via cortisol levels), indicating that they are unable to profit from social support to the…”
When Home Isn't a Safe Haven: Insecure Attachment Orientations, Perceived Social Support, and PTSD Symptoms Among Israeli Evacuees Under Missile Threat (2012, result): “…is consistent with those of previous studies that have documented the link between attachment anxiety orientation and psychological distress (Mallinckrodt & Wei, 2005; Wei, Heppner, & Mallinckrodt, 2003; Wei, Russell, Mallinckrodt, & Zakalik, 2004) and PTSD (Declercq & Willemsen, 2006), as…”
Maladaptive perfectionism and ineffective coping as mediators between attachment and future depression: A prospective analysis. (2006, background): “This nonsignificant result is inconsistent with the findings of previous research that found attachment avoidance to be significantly related to depression or distress (e.g., Lopez et al., 2002; Mallinckrodt & Wei, 2005; Wei et al., 2003, 2004, 2005).”
Adult Attachment, Depressive Symptoms, and Validation From Self Versus Others (2005, background): “Generally, the positive associations with depressive symptoms or other symptoms of psychological distress tend to be stronger for attachment anxiety than for attachment avoidance, although statistically significant direct effects for both types of insecure attachment have been reported ( Mallinckrod”
The mediating roles of anticipated risks, anticipated benefits, and attitudes on the decision to seek professional help: An attachment perspective. (2006, neutral): “…feelings) was used, as attachment dimensions are significantly related to psychological distress (e.g., Lopez, Mitchell, & Gormley, 2002; Mallinckrodt & Wei, 2005), depression (e.g., Wei, Mallinckrodt, Russell, & Abraham, 2004), and loneliness and interpersonal distress (e.g., Wei,…”