ArticleBrain sciences2021
Effects of Father and Mother Attachment on Depressive Symptoms in Middle Childhood and Adolescence: The Mediating Role of Emotion Regulation.
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- Attachment relationship quality with mothers and fathers and child temperament: An individual participant data meta-analysis.Developmental psychology · 2024Pooled it
- The Longitudinal Association Between Parent-Child Attachment and Adolescent Depressive Symptoms: Moderation by Oxytocin Receptor Polymorphisms.Behavioral sciences (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Article
- Unravelling the Ties: How Attachment Styles and Emotion Regulation Fuel Emotional Eating in Youth With Obesity-A Clinical Sample Study.Pediatric obesity · 2026Article
- The relationship between parental-child attachment consistency and shyness in adolescents with depressive disorders.Frontiers in psychology · 2026Article
- Pathways to anhedonia in unmedicated major depressive disorder: the roles of insecure attachment and emotion dysregulation.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2026Article
- The Longitudinal Impact of Father Presence on Adolescent Depressive Symptoms: The Mediating Role of Emotion Beliefs and Emotion Regulation.Behavioral sciences (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Article
- Connections between Parental Emotion Socialization and Internalizing Problems in Adolescents: Examining the Mediating Role of Emotion Regulation Strategies and Moderating Effect of Gender.Behavioral sciences (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Article
- Do parental attachment and prosocial behavior moderate the impairment from depression symptoms in adolescents who seek mental health care?Child and adolescent psychiatry and mental health · 2023Article
- A Family Systems Perspective on Attachment Security and Dependency to Mother and Father in Preschool: Differential and Reciprocal Effects on Children's Emotional and Behavioral Problems.Brain sciences · 2022Article
- Psychological Correlates of Excessive Healthy and Orthorexic Eating: Emotion Regulation, Attachment, and Anxious-Depressive-Stress Symptomatology.Frontiers in nutrition · 2022Article
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Abstract
backgroundAttachment and emotion regulation play a decisive role in the developmental pathways of adaptation or maladaptation. This study tested concurrent and longitudinal associations between the attachment to mother and father, sadness regulation, and depressive symptoms.
methodsA total of 1110 participants from middle childhood to adolescence completed measures of attachment, emotion regulation, and depressive symptomatology. In total, 307 of them participated in the longitudinal assessment.
resultsResults revealed attachment affects emotion regulation strategies and depressive symptoms. Furthermore, we found linear effects of the cumulative number of secure attachment relationships on adaptive and maladaptive deactivating sadness regulation, as well as on depressive symptoms. Longitudinal analysis showed the significant mediating role of sadness regulation in the relationship between attachment and depressive symptoms.
conclusionsAdaptive and maladaptive deactivating sadness regulation explain the longitudinal effects of attachment on depressive symptoms. Insecurely attached children and adolescents use maladaptive and adaptive sadness regulation strategies, but differ in their hierarchy of strategy use.
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