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Childhood emotional maltreatment and internalizing problems in a non-clinical sample of adolescents: a moderated-mediation model of insecure anxious attachment style and gender
| العنوان: | Childhood emotional maltreatment and internalizing problems in a non-clinical sample of adolescents: a moderated-mediation model of insecure anxious attachment style and gender |
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| المؤلفون: | Giorgio Falgares, Giulia Costanzo, Giovanna Manna, Dorian A. Lamis |
| المصدر: | Research in Psychotherapy, Vol 27, Iss 1 (2024) |
| بيانات النشر: | PAGEPress Publications, 2024. |
| سنة النشر: | 2024 |
| المجموعة: | LCC:Psychology |
| مصطلحات موضوعية: | Emotional maltreatment, anxious attachment, internalizing problems, adolescents, gender, Psychology, BF1-990 |
| الوصف: | Childhood emotional maltreatment (abuse and neglect) may contribute to the development of internalizing problems in adolescence. However, the mechanisms explaining this association should be examined further. This study explored the mediating role of insecure anxious attachment style in the relationship between emotional maltreatment and internalizing symptoms in a non-clinical sample of adolescents. Analyses were also conducted to determine whether gender moderated the direct and indirect pathways between emotional maltreatment and internalizing problems. We recruited 449 adolescents aged between 14 and 18 years old [(Mage)=16.46, standard deviation (SD)=1.38]. 60.8% of adolescents were female (Mage=16.51, SD=1.43), whereas 39.2% identified as male (Mage=16.39, SD=1.28). Participants completed a survey including socio-demographic information and three selfreport questionnaires: the Childhood Trauma Questionnaire-Short Form, the Attachment Style Questionnaire, and the Youth Self- Report for ages 11-18. Results showed that emotional abuse and neglect were related to internalizing problems both directly and indirectly through anxious attachment style. Girls who experienced higher levels of emotional abuse and who had an anxious attachment style reported more internalizing problems than boys, whereas higher levels of emotional neglect were associated with increasing levels of internalizing problems only for boys. This study expanded our knowledge of the role of anxious attachment in the onset of internalizing problems among adolescents with experiences of childhood emotional maltreatment. |
| نوع الوثيقة: | article |
| وصف الملف: | electronic resource |
| اللغة: | English |
| تدمد: | 2499-7552 2239-8031 |
| Relation: | https://www.researchinpsychotherapy.org/rpsy/article/view/745; https://doaj.org/toc/2499-7552; https://doaj.org/toc/2239-8031 |
| DOI: | 10.4081/ripppo.2024.745 |
| URL الوصول: | https://doaj.org/article/259dcfd26dec48f8ac52a73e5a863da3 |
| رقم الانضمام: | edsdoj.259dcfd26dec48f8ac52a73e5a863da3 |
| قاعدة البيانات: | Directory of Open Access Journals |
Full Text Finder | تدمد: | 24997552 22398031 |
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| DOI: | 10.4081/ripppo.2024.745 |