The mediating role of Type D personality In the relationship between attachment styles of parents and child

Introduction: Type D personality, a joint tendency toward negative affectivity (NA) and social inhibition (SI), is related to attachment style. The purpose of the correlation current study was to investigate the relationship between parents and child attachment styles by the mediating role of type D personality in individuals in Tehran and Alborz provinces.   Methods: The method of this research was correlation analysis. The statistical population included 288 parents and 288 children over 18 years of age who are living in Tehran and Alborz at the time of the study (2020-2021) and were chosen by convenient sampling. Participants filled in Collins & Read Revises Adult Attachment Scale in three dimensions, close, depend and anxiety underlie the three attachment style, as well as parents filled in DS14 which consisted of 14 items, of which 7 items measures each for negative affectivity and social inhibitions. Pearson correlation coefficient was used for relation analysis between variables and linear regression analysis was used for mediated analysis. Results: Results show a direct correlation between parents and child attachment style. (P<0.01) also, there were no correlations between secure attachment style and type D personality (P<0.05). As well as there were mediating both dismissive-avoidant and anxious-preoccupied attachment styles between parents and children of type D parents’ personalities. Conclusions: According to the results, the components of Negative affectivity and social inhibition in the type D personality of parents; such as stress, anxiety, unhappiness, negative thoughts about life, fear of rejection or invalidation of emotions, underlie modeling children’s attachment style in dismissive-avoidant and anxious-preoccupied attachment style based on parents’ attachment style.