Adult Attachment, Role Balance, and Depressive Symptoms in Emerging Adulthood

Bishop, Jennifer; Norona, Jerika C.; Roberson, Patricia N. E.; Welsh, Deborah P.; McCurry, Sara

doi:10.1007/s10804-018-9295-z

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“…Although we found distinct prospective associations for sons and daughters in response to their early school-age meal environment, less optimal quality of the meal sharing experience forecasted subsequent anxious behavior for both boys and girls. This does not augur well given that the presence of anxiety during youth significantly increases the probability of having anxiety in emerging adulthood [ 28 ].…”

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Early school-age family meal characteristics matter for the later development of boys and girls

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Harbec

Fortin

et al. 2022

Dialogues in Health

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Section: Discussionmentioning

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Early school-age family meal characteristics matter for the later development of boys and girls

Pagani

Harbec

Fortin

et al. 2022

Dialogues in Health

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“…Konrath et al (2014) noted that since the 1980s, parents-child and family relationships have changed, as have the media and its uses, as well as the economy and the labor market. Furthermore, as personal achievement is more important than the development of intimate relationships during the first year of university (Bishop et al, 2018), avoidant attachment may be more adaptive, and anxious attachment related more to the difficult balance between autonomy and intimacy than to maladjustment (i.e., depressive symptoms; Bishop et al, 2019). These considerations should lead to a rethinking of the concept of secure attachment during a transitional period.…”

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“…According to the literature, the dependence-independence question is a core issue for emerging adults with avoidant attachment. Avoidant individuals strive for distance from others (Bishop et al, 2019) and, during the process of separation, may be in denial of dependence . Nevertheless, during the first year of university, avoidant attachment is not related to the balance between autonomy and intimacy (Bishop et al, 2019), suggesting that the redefinition of emerging adults' role and status does not affect them.…”

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“…Avoidant individuals strive for distance from others (Bishop et al, 2019) and, during the process of separation, may be in denial of dependence . Nevertheless, during the first year of university, avoidant attachment is not related to the balance between autonomy and intimacy (Bishop et al, 2019), suggesting that the redefinition of emerging adults' role and status does not affect them. This assumption is reinforced by the fact that avoidant attachment in our sample was characterized by more anxiety than expected, reflecting the desire of emerging adult students for more dependence, contact, and intimacy with others.…”

Section: Home-leaving Family Environment and Attachment Configurationsmentioning

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Leaving the family home to start university: How is home-leaving related to family environment and attachment?

Chevrier

Lannegrand-Willems

2022

Curr Psychol

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Going to university may entail moving away from home. Leaving the family household is a complex and important stage in the process whereby young people gradually gain independence from their family. The purpose of the present study was to identify different home-leaving profiles at the start of university, and analyze how they are related to the family environment (i.e., parents-child and family relationships) and attachment, adopting a personoriented approach. Our sample consisted of 1,142 emerging adults who had just started university (70.67% females; Mage = 18.43 years, SDage = 0.57). Latent class and cluster analyses highlighted diversity in home-leaving, family environment, and attachment profiles. Participants with the independent home-leaving profile frequently returned to the family household. There were no family environment profiles with mixed scores. Participants with insecure attachment profiles had higher levels of anxiety compared with those reported in previous studies. A configural frequency analysis revealed three typical patterns and one antitypical one. Semi-independent home-leaving was linked to a supportive and positive family environment and to secure attachment, whereas both co-resident and independent home-leaving patterns were related to unsupportive, controlling, and conflictual family environment and to anxious attachment. Overall, these findings emphasize the specificity of the context of going to university and provide meaningful knowledge about the independence of emerging adult students.

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“…Because symptoms of anxiety and depression are prevalent in emerging adulthood (Kessler & Wang, 2008) and thought to correspond with the developmental and transitional stressors characteristic of this time of life (Arnett et al, 2014;Bishop et al, 2018;Taylor et al, 2014), it was also necessary to examine the possibility that psychopathology (i.e., anxiety and depression symptoms), rather than developmental differences, contributed to drinking differences between emerging adult profiles.…”

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Alcohol Use and Emerging Adult Development: a Latent Profile Analysis of Community Drinkers

Zhu

2019

Int J Ment Health Addiction

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Latent profile analysis was used to establish profiles of emerging adult development and then test associations with drinking behaviors both concurrently and prospectively. To differentiate between different patterns of emerging adult drinking, 153 regular drinkers from the community (ages 18-24 years; M = 20.9, SD = 1.9) completed the Inventory of Dimensions of Emerging Adulthood (IDEA) and measures of alcohol use, motives and consequences. The EA-Consistent (90%) profile had elevated scores on the five typical IDEA subscales; the Non-Exploring EA profile (10%) had low scores on four dimensions. The Non-Exploring EA profile consumed significantly less alcohol, experienced fewer alcohol consequences, and had lower social and enhancement motives at baseline and lower scores on drinking volume, alcohol consequences, and social motives at the one-year follow-up. The findings provide support that emerging adult development profiles reflect different patterns of alcohol use and differentiate between those with lower-vs. higher-risk alcohol use.

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Adult Attachment, Role Balance, and Depressive Symptoms in Emerging Adulthood

Cited by 9 publications

References 64 publications

Early school-age family meal characteristics matter for the later development of boys and girls

Early school-age family meal characteristics matter for the later development of boys and girls

Leaving the family home to start university: How is home-leaving related to family environment and attachment?

Alcohol Use and Emerging Adult Development: a Latent Profile Analysis of Community Drinkers

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