ArticleAttachment & human development2021
With(out) a little help from my friends: insecure attachment in adolescence, support-seeking, and adult negativity and hostility.
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17 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 26 citations in OpenAlex.
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- Attachment Concepts and Suicidal Thoughts and Behaviours in Adolescents: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.Clinical psychology & psychotherapyPooled it
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- Adolescent social learning within supportive friendships: Self-disclosure and relationship quality from adolescence to adulthood.Journal of research on adolescence : the official journal of the Society for Research on Adolescence · 2024Article
- Does attachment in adolescence predict neural responses to handholding in adulthood? A functional magnetic resonance imaging study.Journal of social and personal relationships · 2024Article
- Emotional engagement with close friends in adolescence predicts neural correlates of empathy in adulthood.Social neuroscience · 2024Article
- Characterizing Emotional Support Development: From Adolescent Best Friendships to Young Adult Romantic Relationships.Journal of research on adolescence : the official journal of the Society for Research on Adolescence · 2023Article
- One is the loneliest number: Involuntary celibacy (incel), mental health, and loneliness.Current psychology (New Brunswick, N.J.) · 2023Article
- Parent and Romantic Partner Behaviors during Adolescence as Predictors of Young Adult Positive Personality, Relational Competence, and Functional Independence.Journal of youth and adolescence · 2022Article
- Pathways linking attachment and depressive symptoms for Black and White adolescents: do race and neighborhood racism matter?Attachment & human development · 2022Article
- When friendships surpass parental relationships as predictors of long-term outcomes: Adolescent relationship qualities and adult psychosocial functioning.Child development · 2022Article
- Here for You: Attachment and the Growth of Empathic Support for Friends in Adolescence.Child development · 2021Article
- Empathy across three generations: From maternal and peer support in adolescence to adult parenting and child outcomes.Child developmentArticle
- Adolescent caregiving success as a predictor of social functioning from ages 13 to 33.Child developmentArticle
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Abstract
Attachment theory suggests that insecurely attached individuals will have more difficulty seeking and receiving support from others. Such struggles in adolescence may reinforce negative expectations of others and contribute to relationship difficulties into adulthood. Using a diverse community sample of 184 adolescents followed from age 13 to 27, along with friends and romantic partners, this study found that more insecure states of mind regarding attachment at age 14 predicted relative decreases in teens' abilities to seek and receive support from close friends from ages 14-18. In addition, greater attachment insecurity predicted greater observed negative interactions with romantic partners and relative increases in hostile attitudes from ages 14 to 27. The effect of attachment insecurity on observed negativity was mediated by difficulty seeking/receiving support in friendships during adolescence. Results suggest a type of self-fulfilling prophecy as insecure adolescents confirm their negative expectations of others through ongoing struggles to obtain support.
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