The Drug-User Husband and His Wife: Attachment Styles, Family Cohesion, and Adaptability

Finzi‐Dottan, Ricky; Cohen, Orna; Iwaniec, Dorota; Sapir, Yaffa; Weizman, Abraham

doi:10.1081/ja-120017249

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“…Insecure attachment is also correlated with substance use disorders among students (Brennan & Shaver, 1998;Burge et al, 1997;Lindberg & Zeid 2016) and in the IMPLICIT ATTACHMENT AND SUBSTANCE USE general population (Mickelson, Kessler, & Shaver, 1997;Vungkhanching, Sher, Jackson, & Parra, 2004). In the same way, insecure attachment appears to be overrepresented in patients with sever alcohol-use disorders (De Rick, Vanheule, & Verhaeghe, 2009;Thorberg & Lyvers, 2006;Wedekind et al, 2013) and among people who use illicit drugs (Finzi-Dottan, Cohen, Iwaniec, Sapir, & Weizman, 2003;Schindler et al, 2005).…”

Section: Use In College Studentsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Mummy, daddy, and addiction: Implicit insecure attachment is associated with substance use in college students.

Serra¹,

Chatard²,

Tello³

et al. 2019

Experimental and Clinical Psychopharmacology

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Experimental and Clinical Psychopharmacology (in press) AbstractIndirect measures of cognition have become an important tool in research on addiction. To date, however, no research has examined whether indirect measures of parent attachment relate to substance use. To examine this issue, a sample of college students (N = 121) was asked to complete two measures of explicit attachment (the Relationship Questionnaire; Bartholomew & Horowitz, 1991, and the Adult Attachment Styles;Collins & Read, 1990), and a measure of implicit attachment (the Single Category Implicit Association Test, Karpinski & Steinman, 2006). The indirect attachment measure assessed the strength of automatic mental association between the concepts parents and secure. Participants also completed different measures of tobacco, cannabis, and alcohol use. Results showed that, for most of the participants, the parents were considered a source of security at both the explicit and implicit levels. Direct and indirect attachment measures were not related to each other.Overall, explicit attachment was not related to substance use. However, implicit attachment was significantly associated with the use of licit (tobacco) and illicit (cannabis) drugs. We also found some evidence that polydrug use is especially common among students with an insecure implicit attachment. This is the first study to examine how implicit attachment processes relate to addictive behaviors. The results suggest that implicit attachment, thought to reflect unconscious traces of past experiences, is a better predictor of substance use in college students than direct, self-reported measures of attachment. Further studies should examine whether implicit attachment is associated with severe substance use disorders in clinical populations. Public Significance StatementThis study shows that implicit attachment (i.e., the strength of a person's automatic association in memory between the concepts parents and secure) is significantly associated with substance use in college students. In contrast, explicit attachment (self-reported measures of parent-child emotional bond) was not associated with substance use. This study is important because this is the first to examine how implicit attachment processes relate to addictive behaviors. IMPLICIT ATTACHMENT AND SUBSTANCE USE Disclosure and Acknowledgments

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Section: Use In College Studentsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Mummy, daddy, and addiction: Implicit insecure attachment is associated with substance use in college students.

Serra¹,

Chatard²,

Tello³

et al. 2019

Experimental and Clinical Psychopharmacology

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“…El apego inseguro se ha revelado factor de riesgo de diversos problemas de salud mental 25 . Pero también los TCD tienen un fuerte impacto negativo en la calidad de las relaciones y, especialmente en muestras de consumidores de drogas de larga evolución 8 el apego inseguro podría ser en parte consecuencia del consumo de drogas.…”

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2006

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El apego inseguro se ha revelado factor de riesgo de diversos problemas de salud mental. Parece plausible que el apego inseguro, en general desarrollado en la infancia, es un factor de riesgo de trastornos por consumo de drogas (TCDs), y esto podría también afectar la alianza terapéutica, y secundariamente, la evolución del TCD. Hemos revisado la literatura sobre este tema, buscando relaciones entre patrones de apego y TCDs. Los estudios publicados sobre apego y TCDs.han producido resultados poco consistentes, en parte por el uso de diferentes medidas de evaluación. Los estudios con los autoinformes de Hazan y Shaver mostraron relación sobre todo con estilo de apego evasivo. Los estudios con la Entrevista de Apego del Adulto encontraron patrones de apego devaluadores o no resueltos. Finalmente, los estudios con el modelo de Bartholomew, en consumidores de alcohol u opiáceos, han encontrado estilos preocupados o temerosos. Discusión y conclusiones: Los estudios analizados son heterogéneos en cuanto a características de la muestra que a veces incluso no se especifican (edad, tipo de droga consumida, gravedad de la adicción) y al uso de instrumentos que clasifican de modo diferente las categorías de apego. No obstante, el apego seguro es similar en todos los instrumentos y no parece explicar los TCD. También hay pocos datos que apoyen una relación entre apego preocupado o ansioso y TCDs. Si bien algunos estudios apuntan a la existencia de patrones devaluadores de apego, la mayoría de trabajos encuentran apegos evasivos o temerosos.

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“…Family adaptability (role flexibility) and cohesion (emotional bonds) are broader aspects of family functioning and have proven useful for understanding other areas of mental health, such as addiction (e.g. Finzi-Dottan, Cohen, Iwaniec, Sapir, & Weizman, 2003; Teichman & Basha, 1996), and could potential help in understanding the association among suicide attempts and attachment security. Also, research concerning this topic has primarily focused on parental attachment, but with the increasing importance of peers during adolescence, it might be expected that peer attachment may become more strongly related to suicide attempts than parental attachment during this period (Allen & Land, 1999).…”

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Adolescent attachment security, family functioning, and suicide attempts

Sheftall

Mathias

Furr

et al. 2013

Attachment & Human Development

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Theories of suicidal behavior suggest that the desire to die can arise from disruption of interpersonal relationships. Suicide research has typically studied this from the individual's perspective of the quality/frequency of their social interactions; however, the field of attachment may offer another perspective on understanding an individual’s social patterns and suicide risk. This study examined attachment along with broader family functioning (family adaptability and cohesion) among 236 adolescent psychiatric inpatients with (n = 111) and without (n = 125) histories of suicide attempts. On average, adolescents were 14 years of age and Hispanic (69%). Compared to those without suicide attempts, adolescent attempters had lower self-reported maternal and paternal attachment and lower familial adaptability and cohesion. When comparing all 3 types of attachment simultaneously in the logistic regression model predicting suicide attempt status, paternal attachment was the only significant predictor. Suicide attempt group was also significantly predicted by self-rated Cohesion and Adaptability; neither of the parent ratings of family functioning were significant predictors. These findings are consistent with the predictions of the Interpersonal Theory of Suicide about social functioning and support the efforts to develop attachment-based interventions as a novel route towards suicide prevention.

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The Drug-User Husband and His Wife: Attachment Styles, Family Cohesion, and Adaptability

Cited by 40 publications

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