Journal article
Unresolved Attachment Mediates the Relationship Between Childhood Trauma and Impaired Personality Functioning in Adolescence.
- Gander M Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Medical University of Innsbruck, Austria.
- Buchheim A Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Medical University of Innsbruck, Austria.
- Bock A Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Medical University of Innsbruck, Austria.
- Steppan M Institute of Psychology, University of Basel, Switzerland.
- Sevecke K Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Medical University of Innsbruck, Austria.
- Goth K Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Psychiatric University Clinics, Basel, Switzerland.
- 2020-01-29
Published in:
- Journal of personality disorders. - 2020
English
The present study investigates the mediating effect of attachment trauma on the relationship between childhood maltreatment and personality functioning in 199 adolescents (12-18 years) using a novel approach of an in-depth analysis of attachment-related traumatic contents during an attachment interview (AAP). Our findings demonstrate that adolescents with a high amount of traumatic attachment-related material show a lower resilience when facing traumatic childhood experiences, resulting in a greater severity of personality dysfunction. In particular, the associations between emotional abuse and neglect and the domains of identity, empathy, self-direction, and intimacy were mediated by the severity of attachment trauma. These results advance our understanding of the different nuances of attachment-related traumatic material and how they might shape personality structure in an adolescent age group.
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- English
- Open access status
- closed
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- DOI 10.1521/pedi_2020_34_468
- PMID 31990614
- Persistent URL
- https://sonar.ch/global/documents/73525
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