ArticleJournal of behavioral medicine2018
Attachment and telomere length: more evidence for psychobiological connections between close relationships, health, and aging.
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- Attachment insecurity moderates emotion responses to mindfulness and loving-kindness meditation in adults raised in low socioeconomic status households.Emotion (Washington, D.C.) · 2022Trial
- A Twin Study on the Relation Between Positive Mental Health and Biological Aging.International journal of molecular sciences · 2026Article
- The impact of childhood maltreatment and parental styles on telomere length: the modulatory role of A118G.European journal of psychotraumatology · 2025Article
- Social relationships and immune aging in early midlife: Evidence from the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent to Adult Health.Brain, behavior, & immunity - health · 2025Article
- The sense of safety theoretical framework: a trauma-informed and healing-oriented approach for whole person care.Frontiers in psychology · 2024Article
- Where the joy comes from: a qualitative exploration of deep GP-patient relationships.BMC primary care · 2023Article
- Gender Differences in Perceived Stress and Its Relationship to Telomere Length in Costa Rican Adults.Frontiers in psychology · 2022Article
- Immune and Epigenetic Pathways Linking Childhood Adversity and Health Across the Lifespan.Frontiers in psychology · 2021Review
- Perceived stress, cytomegalovirus titers, and late-differentiated T and NK cells: Between-, within-person associations in a longitudinal study of older adults.Brain, behavior, and immunity · 2019Article
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Abstract
Individuals with a history of poor interpersonal relationships are more likely to demonstrate negative health outcomes than those who have had high quality relationships. We sought to evaluate how attachment orientations, stress-induced respiratory sinus arrhythmia (RSA), and self-reported stress were associated with length of telomeres measured from peripheral blood mononuclear cells. Participants (N = 213) completed self-report measures of attachment and stress. Measurement of RSA was conducted before and after a stressful task and a blood draw was completed for analysis of telomere length. Attachment orientations were not directly associated with telomere length; however, we found that high attachment anxiety was associated with shorter length of telomeres via high self-reported stress. Attachment avoidance was also associated with telomere length via self-reported stress, but only among those with high stress-induced RSA. Exploratory analyses of T cell subsets indicated that stress was most strongly associated with telomeres from CD8CD28+ cells in comparison to CD8CD28- and CD4 cells. Study findings indicate that attachment orientations are associated with telomere length via stress, providing novel insights into the mechanisms through which close relationships can impact health and aging.
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