SynthesisPsychological bulletin2018
A meta-analysis of longitudinal associations between substance use and interpersonal attachment security.
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53 citing papers in PubMed, 4 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 168 citations in OpenAlex.
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- Alcohol and Neural Dynamics: A Meta-analysis of Acute Alcohol Effects on Event-Related Brain Potentials.Biological psychiatry · 2021Pooled it
- The effect of significant other involvement in treatment for substance use disorders: A meta-analysis.Journal of consulting and clinical psychology · 2020Pooled it
- A meta-analysis of the effect of substance use interventions on emotion outcomes.Journal of consulting and clinical psychology · 2019Pooled it
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- A social cascades model of addiction: Examining effects of psychological interventions on social and substance use outcomes via meta-analytic review.Psychological bulletin · 2026Article
- Attachment Representations, emotion regulation Difficulties and behavioral addiction Risk: Testing a mediation model in undergraduate students.Addictive behaviors reports · 2026Article
- Predicting Substance Use in Young Adults: The Role of Childhood Adversity.Medicina (Kaunas, Lithuania) · 2026Article
- Co-occurrence of symptoms of substance and behavioral addictions over time: A secondary analysis of longitudinal data from the Cohort Study on Substance Use Risk Factors.Journal of behavioral addictions · 2025Article
- Fueling the Cycle: Attachment, Cognition, and Emotion in Substance-Using Incarcerated Young Adults.Clinical neuropsychiatry · 2025Article
- Attachment styles and sense of coherence as indicators of treatment adherence and completion among individuals with substance use disorder.Addiction science & clinical practice · 2025Article
- Social Drinking and Addiction: A Social-Cognitive Model for Understanding Alcohol Use Disorder Risk.Current directions in psychological science · 2025Article
- Genetic and environmental contributions to adult attachment styles: Evidence from the Minnesota Twin Registry.Journal of personality and social psychology · 2025Article
- Addiction, attachment, and the brain: a focused review of empirical findings and future directions.Frontiers in human neuroscience · 2025Review
- Give me five! A modern perspective on addiction from the up-dated Freudian drive theory.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2025Article
- Longitudinal Associations Between Childhood Emotional Abuse and Social Anxiety in Emerging Adults: The Role of Interpersonal Sensitivity and Insecurity.Psychology research and behavior management · 2025Article
- Risk Factors for Love Addiction in a Sample of Young Adult Students: A Multiple Mediation Model Exploring the Role of Adult Attachment, Separation Anxiety, and Defense Mechanisms.Behavioral sciences (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Article
- Longitudinal links from attachment with mothers and fathers to adolescent substance use: Internalizing and externalizing pathways.Developmental science · 2024Article
- The relationship between insecure attachment and nicotine dependence among users of classic cigarettes, e-cigarettes, and heated tobacco products: a moderated mediation model.Substance abuse treatment, prevention, and policy · 2024Article
- The role of attachment and personality traits in choosing opiate addiction replacement therapy.Scientific reports · 2024Article
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Abstract
Substance use has long been associated with close relationship distress. Although the direction of influence for this association has not been established, it has often been assumed that substance use is the causal agent and that close relationship distress is the effect. But research seeking to establish temporal precedence in this link has produced mixed findings. Further, theoretical models of substance use and close relationship processes present the plausibility of the inverse pathway-that insecure close relationships may serve as a vulnerability factor for the development of later substance problems. The current review applies an attachment-theoretical framework to the association between close social bonds and substance use and substance-related problems. Targeting longitudinal studies of attachment and substance use, we examined 665 effect sizes drawn from 34 samples (total N = 56,721) spanning time frames ranging from 1 month to 20 years (M = 3.8 years). Results revealed a significant prospective correlation between earlier attachment and later substance use (r = -.11, 95% CI [-.14, -0.08]). Further, cross-lagged coefficients were calculated which parsed auto-regressive effects, indicating that lower attachment security temporally preceded increases in substance use (r = -.05, 95% CI [-.06, -.04]). Analyses further indicated that the pathway from earlier attachment to later substance use was significantly stronger than that from earlier substance use to later attachment. Results also revealed several moderators of the attachment-substance use link. These findings suggest that insecure attachment may be a vulnerability factor for substance use, and indicate close relationship quality as a promising line of inquiry in research on substance use disorder risk. (PsycINFO Database Record
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