Individuals with Major Depressive Disorder Report High Scores of Insecure-Avoidant and Insecure-Anxious Attachment Styles, Dissociative Identity Symptoms, and Adult Traumatic Events

The effectiveness of mentalization-based therapy on insecure attachment, fear of intimacy and suicidal ideation in people with major depressive disorder

Introduction: The aim of this study was to evaluate the effectiveness of mentalization-based therapy on insecure attachment, fear of intimacy and suicidal ideation in people with major depressive disorder. Method: The study was an experimental study with a pretest-posttest design and a control group. The statistical population was all people with major depression who referred to the Agahesh cli...

Substance Abuse and Insecure Attachment Styles: A Relational Study

Infant Sleep Disorders and Attachment: Sleep Problems in Infants with Insecure- Resistant Versus Insecure-avoidant Attachments to Mother

Investigations of the development of infant sleep patterns often rely on maternal reports concerning the frequency and pattern of infant night wakings as an indicator of the underlying quality and organization of infant sleep (1-7). These studies suggest that infants usually arouse one or more times for varying periods of time each night. During the first few months of life 95% of infants signa...

Insecure attachment and depressive symptoms: The mediating role of rumination, empathy, and forgiveness

The authors investigated the associations between attachment, empathy, rumination, forgiveness, and depressive symptoms via the framework of attachment theory. Participants (N = 221; 141 F and 80 M) completed a battery of questionnaires. We hypothesized that (a) anxious and avoidant attachment would be negatively linked to dispositional forgiveness; (b) the anxious attachment–forgiveness link w...

The Mediating Role of Postpartum Depression and Childbirth-Related PTSD in the Relationship between Attachment Styles and Postpartum Bonding among Mothers in Ahvaz

Objective: Several research studies have explored the correlation between postpartum depression and a weak mother-infant bond. However, fewer studies have analyzed how other postpartum mental health conditions, such as childbirth-related post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), or important personal characteristics such as adult attachment styles, affect the quality of the mother-infant bond. The...