Self-reported attachment style, anxiety, and depression in children

By P. Muris, Birgit Mayer, C. Meesters. 2000

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We explored the relationship between self-reported attachment styles and levels of anxiety symptoms and depression in a sample of 12-year-old children. Participants completed a simplified version of Hazan and Shaver’s (1987) single-item measure of attachment style and self-report measures of anxiety and depression. Results showed that 20.9% of the children classified themselves as insecurely (i.e., avoidantly or ambivalently) attached. Furthermore, it was found that insecurely attached children had elevated levels of anxiety symptoms and depression compared to securely attached children.

Subfields: Clinical Psychology, Social Psychology

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A Multifactorial Model for the Etiology of Anxiety in Non-Clinical Adolescents: Main and Interactive Effects of Behavioral Inhibition, Attachment and Parental Rearing (2006, background): “In three subsequent studies, Muris and colleagues ( Muris, Mayer, & Meesters, 2000a; Muris, Meesters, Merckelbach, & H¨ ulsenbeck, 2000b; Muris, Meesters, van Melick, & Zwambag, 2001a) found that adolescents who defined themselves as insecurely attached displayed higher levels of anxiety and worry ”
Perceived Parenting Styles and Cultural Influences in Adolescent’s Anxiety: A Cross-Cultural Comparison (2016, background): “Parental rejection is marked by the cold and unaffectionate, hostile and aggressive or judgmental, dismissive and/or critical patterns of parental behavior towards children (Muris et al. 2000b).”