The effect of traumatic experiences on attachment styles
Traumatic experiences are destructive experiences that affect in-dividuals in their adulthood, damaging their sense of trust towards them-selves, the world and other people, leading them to despair. This study aims to test the effect of childhood traumatic experiences on attachment styles in adultho...
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| Tipo de recurso: | artículo |
| Fecha de publicación: | 2022 |
| País: | España |
| Institución: | Universidad de Murcia |
| Repositorio: | DIGITUM. Depósito Digital Institucional de la Universidad de Murcia |
| OAI Identifier: | oai:digitum.um.es:10201/125528 |
| Acceso en línea: | https://doi.org/10.6018/analesps.489601 http://hdl.handle.net/10201/125528 |
| Access Level: | acceso abierto |
| Palabra clave: | Childhood traumatic experiences Attachment styles Experiencias traumáticas de la infancia Estilos de apego CDU::1 - Filosofía y psicología::159.9 - Psicología |
| Sumario: | Traumatic experiences are destructive experiences that affect in-dividuals in their adulthood, damaging their sense of trust towards them-selves, the world and other people, leading them to despair. This study aims to test the effect of childhood traumatic experiences on attachment styles in adulthood and to find out what kind of traumatic experiences ex-plain the attachment styles to what extent. Relational survey method was used in the research and the data were analysed with structural equation modelling. The study group is 804 students aged 17-24. For data collec-tion, Childhood Trauma Questionnaire developed by Bernstein et al. (1997) and Relationship Scales Questionnaire developed by Griffin and Bartholomew (1994) were used. The study has concluded that traumatic experiences have a negative and significant effect on secure attachment and a positive effect on fearful and preoccupied attachment, but they are not a significant predictor of dismissing attachment. As a result of the sec-ond model of the relationship between traumatic experiences and secure and insecure attachment dimensions, traumatic experiences have been found to have a negative significant effect on secure attachment but a posi-tive significant effect on insecure attachment. With the third model, three types of traumatic experiences have been examined to explain the attach-ment styles. Physical, emotional neglect and abuse, and sexual abuse have predicted secure attachment in a negative significant way and insecure at-tachment style in a positive significant way. The study revealed the effect of childhood traumatic experiences on attachment styles. |
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