ArticlePsychiatry investigation2026
Separation Anxiety in Emerging Adults: The Role of Attachment Styles and Personality Traits.
Article in Psychiatry investigation, 2026. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.
What it found
Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.
The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.
The trial behind it
Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.
Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.
Who cites it
0 citing papers in PubMed.
No citing paper in PubMed yet.
Corrections and comments
PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.
Authors and funding
4 authors.
Funding
No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.
Abstract
objectiveTo examine childhood and adult separation anxiety symptoms and their associations with attachment styles, personality traits, and sociodemographic factors among university students.
methodsThis cross-sectional study included 200 first-year university students. Attachment styles and personality traits were assessed using the Three-Dimensional Attachment Style Scale and the Five-Factor Personality Inventory, respectively. Based on validated cut-off scores from the Separation Anxiety Symptom Inventory and the Adult Separation Anxiety Questionnaire, participants were classified as screen-negative (n=48, 24%), childhood separation anxiety symptom-positive (CSAD) (n=30, 15%), adult separation anxiety symptom-positive (ASAD) (n=27, 13.5%), or childhood and adult separation anxiety symptom-positive (CSAD&ASAD) (n=95, 47.5%). Group differences were analyzed using non-parametric tests, and hierarchical regression examined factors associated with adult separation anxiety symptom scores.
resultsThe CSAD&ASAD group showed significantly lower secure attachment and higher avoidant and anxious-ambivalent attachment scores compared with other groups. Emotional stability scores were significantly higher in the screen-negative group than in the ASAD and CSAD&ASAD groups. Parental separation/divorce and firstborn status were associated with higher symptom levels. In multivariable analyses, higher Beck Anxiety Inventory scores (β=0.275, p<0.001), lower emotional stability (β=-0.266, p<0.001), lower conscientiousness (β=-0.155, p=0.012), and firstborn status (β=-0.114, p=0.045) were independently associated with adult separation anxiety symptom scores, with the final model explaining 48.3% of the variance.
conclusionSeparation anxiety symptoms were common among university students. Findings highlight the role of internalizing symptom severity, personality traits, and selected sociodemographic factors in adult separation anxiety symptom scores. These findings should be interpreted at the symptom level and require confirmation through longitudinal and clinically structured studies.
Indexed as
Identifiers
What OpenQuestion holds
Registered trials
Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.