Childhood Emotional Abuse, Adult Attachment, and Depression as Predictors of Relational Adjustment and Psychological Aggression
By Shelley A. Riggs, P. Kaminski. The Effect of Childhood Emotional Maltreatment on Later Intimate Relationships, 2010
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This study examined the theoretically expected contributions of early emotional abuse, adult attachment, and depression to several aspects of romantic relationship functioning. College students in dating relationships (N = 285) completed an online survey, including measures of childhood emotional maltreatment, adult attachment style, psychological distress, and romantic relationships. Results indicated that childhood emotional maltreatment directly predicted insecure adult attachment. In the full models, emotional maltreatment contributed to dyadic adjustment, but was not a significant predictor of psychological aggression or victimization. In contrast, depression accounted for the largest proportion of variance in the models for reported psychological aggression and victimization, but was nonsignificant for dyadic adjustment. Adult attachment style emerged as an important predictor of all 3 relationship constructs.
Subfields: Demography, Social Psychology, Sociology and Political Science
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- Childhood Emotional Abuse and the Attachment System Across the Life Cycle: What Theory and Research Tell Us (2010, background): “The model further proposes that emotionally abusive parenting may engender dissociated mental representations that create a high risk for maladaptive social relations and psychopathology (see Carbone, this 2010; Riggs & Kaminski, 2010).”