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The Relationship Between Adult Attachment and Complicated Grief: A Systematic Review.
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8 citing papers in PubMed, 25 citations in OpenAlex.
- Associations between depressive symptoms, attachment style, and continuing bonds among Japanese bereaved family members of patients with cancer: a nationwide cross-sectional study.BMC psychology · 2026Article
- Grief and Psychopathology in Bereaved Caregivers of Palliative Care Patients: The Mediating and Moderating Roles of Distress, Burden and Social Support.Journal of advanced nursing · 2026Article
- Unraveling attachment - A network analysis of the cognitive pathways linking attachment and prolonged grief.Psychological medicine · 2025Article
- Measuring American adults' perceptions about human existence: A cross-sectional study.Palliative & supportive care · 2025Article
- Grief, bereavement and prolonged grief disorder: scoping and mapping the evidence.BJPsych open · 2025Review
- Narrative Deference.Topoi : an international review of philosophy · 2025Article
- Cluster analysis of prolonged grief, posttraumatic stress, and depression symptoms in bereaved asylum seekers and refugees.European journal of psychotraumatology · 2024Article
- Attachment styles and empathy in trainee nurses: the mediating and moderating roles of attitudes toward death.Frontiers in psychology · 2024Article
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5 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.
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Abstract
Attachment insecurity, including attachment anxiety and attachment avoidance, is proposed as a key factor disrupting adaptive recovery following bereavement, resulting in complicated grief. However, findings are inconsistent across studies. This review aimed to synthesise existing research on attachment patterns in adults experiencing complicated grief to better understand this relationship. 22 cross-sectional and longitudinal studies (5149 participants), published between 2003 and 2020, met inclusion criteria. Higher levels of attachment anxiety were consistently associated with symptoms of complicated grief. Higher levels of attachment avoidance were associated with symptoms of complicated grief, although this relationship was less consistent. The review has implications for clinical practice as bereaved adults with insecure attachment histories may be particularly vulnerable to experiencing complicated grief. The research is limited by the reliance on mainly cross-sectional studies. Future research should focus on longitudinal studies, and studies that explore men's experiences, and of individuals living in non-Western countries.
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