ArticleClinical psychology & psychotherapy2022
An investigation of whether emotion regulation mediates the relationship between attachment insecurity and suicidal ideation and behaviour.
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- Independent contribution of emotion dysregulation to suicide attempts in adolescents beyond the role of depressive symptoms.Scientific reports · 2026Article
- The Mediating Role of Emotional Dysregulation in the Relationship Between Anxious Attachment and Suicidal Behavior in Children Admitted to an Emergency Department.Child psychiatry and human development · 2025Article
- The relationship among attachment styles, interpersonal needs, and suicidal ideation in patients with psychiatric disorders.Research in psychotherapy (Milano) · 2024Article
- Suicidality and self-compassion in patients with major depressive disorder: the mediating role of the avoidant attachment type.Research in psychotherapy (Milano) · 2024Article
- The Role of Emotion Dysregulation in Understanding Suicide Risk: A Systematic Review of the Literature.Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Review
- Emotional regulation and suicidal ideation-Mediating roles of perceived social support and avoidant coping.Frontiers in psychology · 2024Article
- The Mediating Role of Precepts and Meditation on Attachment and Depressive Symptoms in Adolescents.Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023Article
- Depression and suicide: What an evidence-based clinician should know.Clinical psychology & psychotherapy · 2022Article
- An investigation of whether emotion regulation mediates the relationship between attachment insecurity and suicidal ideation and behaviour.Clinical psychology & psychotherapy · 2022Article
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Abstract
objectiveThe aim of this research was to examine relationships between attachment insecurity and suicidal ideation and behaviour. Secondary aims were to explore the mediating role of emotion dysregulation and the moderating role of betrayal trauma in explaining hypothesised relationships.
methodSixty-five participants with experience of suicidal ideation completed questionnaire measures assessing attachment security, suicide ideation, emotion regulation, betrayal trauma, depressive symptoms and hopelessness.
resultsA direct relationship was found between avoidant attachment and suicide ideation after controlling for age and gender. Multiple suicide attempters had higher anxious attachment. Anxious and avoidant attachment, suicide ideation and betrayal trauma were associated with emotion dysregulation. The relationship between attachment insecurity and suicide ideation was not mediated by emotion dysregulation. In the mediation model, only anxious attachment remained a significant predictor of emotion regulation and there was no significant effect of emotion regulation nor betrayal trauma, on suicide ideation.
conclusionSuicidal individuals may benefit from therapeutic intervention that explores attachment-related difficulties and therapies such as dialectical behavioural therapy, which support skills in emotional regulation. Future longitudinal research should identify other important mediators of the association between attachment and suicidality to develop more targeted psychological interventions for suicidality.
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