ArticleJournal of social and personal relationships2020
A dyadic approach to attachment anxiety and avoidance, marital conflict, and drinking.
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- Alcohol Misuse, Marital Functioning and Marital Instability: An Evidence-Based Review on Intimate Partner Violence, Marital Satisfaction and Divorce.Substance abuse and rehabilitation · 2025Review
- The association of sex and attitudes towards parental migration with anxiety symptoms in left-behind children: a large-scale cross-sectional study.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2025Article
- Making a Bad Situation Worse: Race, Poor Health Behaviors, and Daily Family Stressor Reactivity.Journal of adult development · 2024Article
- Drinking to Cope Mediates the Association between Dyadic Conflict and Drinking Behavior: A Study of Romantic Couples during the COVID-19 Pandemic.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2023Article
- The Predictive Effect of Parental Adult Attachment on Parent-Adolescent Attachment: The Mediating Role of Harsh Parenting.Frontiers in psychology · 2021Article
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Abstract
In this research, we integrate attachment theory and dyadic methodology to examine how attachment anxiety and avoidance might interact with marital conflict to influence alcohol consumption, drinking motives, and alcohol-related problems in a sample of 280 married and cohabiting couples over 3 years. Both husband and wife attachment anxiety were related to higher levels of own drinking to cope and alcohol-related problems. Additionally, both husband and wife reports of marital conflict were associated with own alcohol-related problems. For wives, significant interactions between anxiety and marital conflict suggested that anxiety was more strongly associated with alcohol consumption, coping, and problems at higher levels of conflict. For husbands, significant interactions between avoidance and conflict indicated that avoidance was more strongly associated with coping and problems at lower levels of conflict. This research suggests two main patterns of attachment and alcohol use, both exacerbated by marital conflict and different for husbands and wives.
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