44 research outputs found
Cross-cultural adult attachment research: A review of methods and measures
No full textKafescioğlu, Nilüfer (Dogus Author)A substantial amount of cross-cultural research has been conducted on attachment over the last four decades. In this chapter, we will review the self-report measures of adult attachment, the Adult Attachment Interview, the Adult Attachment Q-sort, and narrative representations. Then, we will focus on some of the remaining methodological issues concerning cross-cultural studies on adult attachment
The effects of differentiation of self, adult attachment, and sexual communication on sexual and marital satisfaction: A path analysis
No full textA sample of 205 married individuals in rural Indiana completed a questionnaire assessing differentiation of self, adult attachment, sexual communication, sexual satisfaction, and marital satisfaction. Models were fit using path analyses. Sexual communication was tested as a mediating variable between differentiation of self and adult attachment to sexual satisfaction and marital satisfaction. Differentiation of self did not have direct effects on sexual satisfaction or marital satisfaction but it was significantly positively related to sexual communication. Adult attachment was also significantly positively related to sexual communication and had a direct effect on marital satisfaction. Therefore, sexual communication was only found to be a partial mediating variable in the model. Support was found for existing research that sexual satisfaction and marital satisfaction had a significant positive relationship and sexual communication was positively related to both sexual satisfaction and marital satisfaction. Differences in gender were assessed with multi-group analysis and revealed no gender differences in the model. The author discusses implications for research and practice
MULTIPLE-FAMILY GROUP INTERVENTION FOR INCARCERATED ADOLESCENTS AND THEIR FAMILIES: A PILOT PROJECT
No full textMultiple-family group intervention for incarcerated adolescents and their families: a pilot project
No full textThe Multiple-Family Group Intervention (MFGI) was developed to address the need for an effective and yet affordable treatment for reducing recidivism for incarcerated adolescents and altering the families' coercive interactional patterns from an affect regulation and attachment perspective. The 8-week MFGI program was conducted in two Indiana juvenile correctional institutions. The research study utilized pre-and postintervention assessments and a 6-month follow-up assessment. Data from both male (n = 43) and female (n = 30) adolescents were combined, yielding a total sample of 140 respondents (73 adolescents, 67 caretakers). The 6-month follow-up assessment indicated a recidivism rate of only 44% compared to the national norm of 65-85%. Linear growth models were fit to determine the nature of the changes in adolescent behavior over the three assessments. Adolescents and caregivers reported that adolescents' externalizing behaviors significantly declined over time. Adolescent-reported internalizing symptoms as well as their alcohol and drug use significantly declined over the follow-up period, while caregiver reports of these behaviors showed no change over time. Adolescent-reported attachment to their parents, particularly mothers, increased significantly as did both adolescent and caregiver-reported functional affect regulation
The mediational effect of affect regulation on the relationship between attachment and internalizing/externalizing behaviors in adolescent males who have sexually offended
No full textThe mediational effect of affect regulation on the relationship between attachment and internalizing/externalizing behaviors in adolescent males who have sexually offended
No full textResearch has shown that adults who sexually offend frequently report perpetrating a sexual offense for the first time during childhood/adolescence; therefore in this preliminary study, we examine the possible covariates related to offending sexually in adolescents. For this study, 62 incarcerated adolescents at a correctional facility in Alabama completed self-report questionnaires regarding demographic information, internalizing/externalizing behavior problems, attachment, and affect regulation. The results of this study indicate that attachment is related to internalizing and externalizing behaviors, as well as, both adaptive affect regulation and maladaptive affect regulation. Through path analyses, this study was the first to test and find that affect regulation ability mediated the relationship between attachment and externalizing behavior; however, it did not mediate the relationship between attachment and internalizing behavior. Interestingly, maladaptive affect regulation appeared to have a stronger influence on problem behaviors than adaptive affect regulation for these adolescents. The findings from this study could help professionals identify more successful therapeutic interventions for these adolescents and consequently prevent later sexual offending and further negative, individual or societal outcomes.Sexual offending Adolescents Attachment Affect regulation Internalizing/externalizing
Young women's accounts of intimate partner violence during adolescence and subsequent recovery processes: An interpretative phenomenological analysis
No full textThis is the author's accepted manuscript. The final published article is available from the link below. Copyright @ 2011 The British Psychological Society.Objective. Previous qualitative research into the experience of intimate partner violence (IPV) has largely focused upon mature women's accounts. The objectives of this interpretative phenomenological analysis (IPA) were to explore three young women's understandings of why they had been vulnerable to IPV in mid-to-late adolescence, their experiences of IPV, and their recovery processes.
Design. This study followed guidelines for IPA, largely focusing upon shared aspects of the experience of IPV as narrated by three young women who considered that they had since recovered from the experience.
Method. Semi-structured interviews explored participants’ retrospective understandings of how they had become entrapped in a long-term abusive relationship in adolescence, how IPV had affected them at the time, and the processes that they had found helpful to recover well-being.
Findings. Participants largely attributed their vulnerability to IPV to feeling confused about feelings and relationships, disconnected, and powerless in early adolescence. IPV was described as escalating insidiously, rendering participants confined, anxious and powerless, ensnaring them in their partner's family, marginalized in their own families, and undermining their identities. Recovery processes began with pivotal moments. Participants described repairing identity through engaging in age-appropriate activities, extricating self from the partner's family, and rebuilding family relationships.
Conclusions. Participants described experiences of IPV and recovery in adolescence that differed in some ways from those previously identified in adult women and were interpreted using theories of adolescent identity development and attachment
The Effects of Differentiation of Self, Adult Attachment, and Sexual Communication on Sexual and Marital Satisfaction: A Path Analysis
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