The Relationship Between Attachment Styles, Ruminative Response Styles, Dysfunctional Attitudes and Major Depression Diagnosis

Unravelling the Roots of Emotional Development: Examining the Relationships Between Attachment, Resilience and Coping in Young Adolescents

“…Anxious individuals can perceive this separation as evidence of a lack of personal worthiness (Yue & Stefanone, 2021) and an over-reliance on others when in need of comfort (Atwool, 2006). Building on the feeling of unworthiness, anxious attachment is also rooted in questioning the trust in oneself (Nowalis et al, 2022) and others and forms a potential risk for one’s sense of mastery due to the realization that one is dependent on others (Çelikbaş & Yalçınkaya-Alkar, 2022). This study demonstrated a negative relationship between anxious attachment and sense of mastery.…”

“…Avoidant individuals hold a fear of intimacy or fear of dependence due to their early emotional connections with their caregivers. They feel uncomfortable getting close to others due to potential dependency issues (Çelikbaş & Yalçınkaya-Alkar, 2022). While this negative relationship is a similar outcome to anxious attachment, the roots of this are highly different.…”

“…Having said this, avoidant adolescents will need to overcome their fears and distrust in order to establish peer relations. However, in overcoming this fear, avoidant adolescents are faced with the uncomfortable feeling getting close to others due to potential dependency issues (Çelikbas ¸& Yalçınkaya-Alkar, 2022). Besides these social relations challenges for adolescents, adolescents' mental health (Konaszewski et al, 2021) can be influenced by one's resiliency.…”

“…For anxious individuals, the anxiety of "separation" (or perceived separation) appears to form a deep-rooted distrust (Mikulincer & Shaver, 2007) as to the constancy of the "other." Specifically focusing on sense of mastery, anxious individuals may hold a lower self-image stemming from their feeling of inadequacy due to not being able to self-regulate (Cruz-Vargas & Sánchez-Aragón, 2021) their own emotions, and thus their realization (conscious or unconscious) that they are dependent upon others (Çelikbas ¸& Yalçınkaya-Alkar, 2022). Specifically for relatedness, anxious attachment forms the roots of perceived instability in social relations in terms of lack of trust, worthiness, or stability in what is safe in the world (Atwool, 2006).…”

The Effectiveness of Self-Compassion-Focused Therapy on Cognitive Vulnerability to Depression

“…The results of these studies showed that self-compassion-focused therapy and compassionate mind training were effective in adjusting and reducing maladaptive psychological structures, primary maladaptive schemas, distorted cognitions, dysfunctional attitudes, and defective attitudes towards oneself. The findings indicate the relationship between attachment styles and attitudes towards oneself, the world/others, and the future ( 46 ). Evidence shows that lack of compassion is associated with insecure attachment and childhood maltreatment and may mediate the effect of insecure attachment on emotional regulation disorders ( 47 ).…”