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  • Common and Distinct Correlates of Depression, Anxiety, and Aggression: Attachment and Emotion Regulation of Sadness and Anger

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    Clear, SJ
    Gardner, AA
    Webb, HJ
    Zimmer-Gembeck, MJ
    Griffith University Author(s)
    Webb, Haley J.
    Clear, Sarah J.
    Gardner, Alex A.
    Zimmer-Gembeck, Melanie
    Year published
    2019
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    Drawing from attachment and emotion theories, we tested a model whereby emerging adults’ anxious and avoidant attachment would have specific associations with dysregulation and suppression of sadness and anger and would be unique correlates of emotional and behavioral problems. Participants were 383 (47% men) students between 16 and 23 years (M = 19.6, SD = 1.58) who completed a questionnaire to assess attachment, emotion dysregulation and suppression, depressive and social anxiety symptoms, and aggressive behavior. In a path model, greater anxious attachment was associated with more emotion dysregulation, whereas greater ...
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    Drawing from attachment and emotion theories, we tested a model whereby emerging adults’ anxious and avoidant attachment would have specific associations with dysregulation and suppression of sadness and anger and would be unique correlates of emotional and behavioral problems. Participants were 383 (47% men) students between 16 and 23 years (M = 19.6, SD = 1.58) who completed a questionnaire to assess attachment, emotion dysregulation and suppression, depressive and social anxiety symptoms, and aggressive behavior. In a path model, greater anxious attachment was associated with more emotion dysregulation, whereas greater avoidant attachment was associated with greater emotion suppression. Greater sadness dysregulation was uniquely and significantly associated with depression and social anxiety but not aggression, whereas greater anger dysregulation was associated with aggressive behavior but not depression and anxiety. Also, participants with elevated attachment insecurities reported heightened emotional and behavioral problems. Anxious attachment had the most pervasive impact on all forms of symptoms, either directly or indirectly via emotion dysregulation. Yet, there was also evidence that a focus on regulation of sadness, relative to anger, identified unique links with depression and social anxiety, relative to aggressive behavior.
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    Journal Title
    Journal of Adult Development
    DOI
    https://doi.org/10.1007/s10804-019-09333-0
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    © 2019 Springer. This is an electronic version of an article published in Journal of Adult Development, AOV. Journal of Adult Development is available online at: http://link.springer.com/ with the open URL of your article.
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    This publication has been entered into Griffith Research Online as an Advanced Online Version.
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    Psychology
    Publication URI
    http://hdl.handle.net/10072/385785
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