ArticleBMC psychology2022
Attachment style and mental health during the later stages of COVID-19 pandemic: the mediation role of loneliness and COVID-19 anxiety.
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- Medical students' distress during the transition to the endemic phase of COVID-19 in China: The association with temperament traits and attachment styles.AIMS public health · 2025Article
- Social isolation, loneliness, and functional disability in Chinese older women and men: a longitudinal cross-lag analysis.BMC psychology · 2024Article
- Understanding Adolescent Mental Health in the COVID-19 Era: A Psychodynamic Approach.Children (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Article
- Toward a causal link between attachment styles and mental health during the COVID-19 pandemic.The British journal of clinical psychology · 2023Article
- Do Attachment Orientations Relate to Coping with Crises? Lessons from a Cross-Sectional Study during the COVID-19 Pandemic.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2023Article
- Age and Gender Perspectives on Social Media and Technology Practices during the COVID-19 Pandemic.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2022Article
- COVID anxiety and its predictors among Slovak adolescents.Frontiers in psychology · 2022Article
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Abstract
backgroundAn insecure attachment style is an important risk factor for psychological problems. The aim of this study was to use Bartholomew and Horowitz's model (Bartholomew and Horowitz in J Pers Soc Psychol 61(2): 226, 2019) to test a sample of Italian individuals to determine the mediation role of loneliness and COVID-19-related anxiety symptoms in the relationship between attachment styles and mental health issues in the context of the pandemic.
methodA cross-sectional research study was conducted using a sample of 330 Italian participants (82.1% women; mean age = 34.3 years; SD = 13.16) who completed online self-reported measures of attachment styles (RQ), loneliness (RULS), COVID-19-related anxiety symptoms (C-19ASS) and mental health problems (GHQ-12). Serial mediation analyses were performed, and bootstrap tests were included.
resultsOur results supported the hypothesized model with respect to each attachment style (p < 0.001). In particular, insecure attachment styles predict mental health problems both directly and indirectly, through loneliness and COVID-19-related anxiety symptoms. In addition, loneliness directly influences mental health problems and also mediates the relationship between insecure attachment styles and COVID-19-related anxiety symptoms which, in turn, positively predict mental health problems.
conclusionsOur findings reinforce the importance of attachment in people's processes of adapting to experiences during the coronavirus pandemic. The study makes an important contribution to developing effective prevention and intervention strategies to support people's wellbeing in the context of the pandemic.
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