ArticleInternational journal of environmental research and public health2024
The Association Between Adult Attachment Patterns, Attachment to Group and Mental Health in Israel Following the October 7th Attack: The Role of Emotion Regulation Strategies.
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- 'Where We Can Breathe Together': Home Perceptions and Coping Strategies of Divorced Mothers Evacuated in Wartime.Stress and health : journal of the International Society for the Investigation of Stress · 2026Article
- Understanding the role of preservice teachers' attachment in shaping core self-evaluations: the mediating effect of academic emotions in teacher education contexts.Frontiers in psychology · 2026Article
- How Personality Shapes Emotional Reactions to Explicit, Implicit, and Positive Media Images of Terror? An Experimental Investigation.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2025Article
- Attachment to Group and Mental Health Following the October 7th Attack: The Mediating Role of Meaning in Life and Intolerance of Uncertainty.Behavioral sciences (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Article
- Parental Stress and Mental Health Outcomes Following the October 7th Events: Insights from Israeli Families of Children with Special Needs.Behavioral sciences (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Article
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Abstract
We examined the associations between attachment anxiety, attachment avoidance, and attachment to group (to Israel) and mental health scores. The study used a community sample of 434 participants in response to the October 7th attack on Israel. Additionally, we explored the potential mechanisms linking these attachment patterns to mental health scores. We focused on emotion regulation strategies, such as task-focused, emotion-focused, and distance-focused strategies, as potential mediators. The results indicated that the negative direct association between attachment anxiety and mental health is fully mediated by a high emotion-focused strategy and a low task-focused strategy. Attachment avoidance did not have a significant direct association with mental health scores. However, it had significant negative indirect associations through a high emotion-focused strategy and a low task-focused strategy. Attachment to the group (to Israel) showed both direct and indirect positive associations with mental health through a low emotion-focused strategy and a high task-focused strategy. The discussion highlights the role of internal representations of insecure attachment, group attachment, and emotion regulation strategies (especially emotion- and task-focused strategies) in how highly stressful external situations affect mental health.
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