Love Addiction, Emotional Dysregulation and Attachment Bonds: A Quantitative Study of 344 Females

A pilot study on childhood trauma and love addiction: Exploring the mediation of unbalanced family functioning.

“…These findings could be used in prevention programs, as well as providing useful information for therapeutic interventions. For instance, these data could complement prior research that supports the role of parental control as a risk factor for love addiction (Salani et al, 2022), indicating the importance of incorporating the family context into treatment, consistent with evidence from other types of addiction (e.g., Rowe, 2012;Zajac et al, 2017). Furthermore, the results suggest that this approach could be particularly effective for individuals who report high levels of emotional and physical abuse, and preventive interventions could be specifically targeted toward them (Marshall, 2012;Vlahovicova et al, 2017).…”

“…In future research, a deeper exploration of these nuances could yield more comprehensive and detailed results. Finally, there were some potentially important variables that were not investigated in the present study (e.g., personality traits), and other factors (e.g., emotional dysregulation; Salani et al, 2022) may intervene in the explored relationships. Therefore, further exploration of other risk factors associated with love addiction is needed.…”

“…In fact, exposure to childhood trauma experiences is related to compromised family functioning and lower levels of family resilience (Dong et al, 2021; Schneider et al, 2019). Furthermore, there is evidence that family functioning is, in turn, a central element in vulnerability to various forms of addiction, including love addiction (Chmielewska, 2012; Salani et al, 2022). Moreover, families characterized by weak emotional bonds and incapacity to change their power structure, role relationships, and relationship rules in response to situational and developmental stress are strong risk factors for the onset of addiction (Tafa & Baiocco, 2009).…”