Longitudinal associations among adult attachment orientations, emotion regulation tendencies, and transdiagnostic anxiety and depression symptoms in young adults

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ID2936739
AutoresAllison V Metts (0000-0003-1340-463X, University of California, Los Angeles), Richard E Zinbarg (0000-0002-2670-6330, Northwestern University), Robin Nusslock (0000-0001-6283-7824, Northwestern University), Benjamin A Tabak (0000-0003-0833-5705, Southern Methodist University), Michelle G Craske (0000-0002-3704-5240, University of California, Los Angeles, autor de correspondencia)
Año2024
Volumen41
Número6
Páginas1457-1480
Fecha de publicación2024-06-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaJournal of Social and Personal Relationships (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0265-4075 • E-ISSN: 1460-3608
EditorialSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1177/02654075231225254
OpenAlexW4390630903
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas1
Referencias citadas70

Adult attachment orientations can influence emotion regulation. Such influence on the tendency to employ two strategies, cognitive reappraisal (which aims to modify emotional experiences) and expressive suppression (which inhibits emotional expression) and later symptoms is understudied. This longitudinal study evaluated indirect associations between adult attachment orientations-with a focus on the dimension of security-and transdiagnostic anxiety and depression symptoms (General Distress; GD) through reappraisal and suppression. Correlational analyses examined cross-sectional associations among constructs across four timepoints. A cross-lagged panel model was fit to examine prospective hypotheses using 30-month longitudinal data from young adults ( N = 270 at baseline). Correlational evidence provided support for expected cross-sectional associations. In prospective analyses, there was a significant unique effect of attachment-related avoidance on expressive suppression such that higher attachment-related avoidance predicted higher use of subsequent expressive suppression. There were significant unique effects of emotion regulation on symptoms such that higher reappraisal predicted lower subsequent GD and higher suppression predicted higher subsequent GD. There was no evidence for significant direct or indirect effects of attachment orientations on GD. Results suggest that adult attachment orientation may inform how one expresses emotions in the future, and how one regulates emotions may inform subsequent shared symptoms of depression and anxiety. There was no evidence that attachment orientations informed future transdiagnostic symptoms of depression and anxiety

Anxiety · Attachment theory · Cognition · Cognitive reappraisal · Depression (economics · Developmental psychology · Distress · Expressive Suppression · Longitudinal study · Multilevel model · Psychiatry · Young adult · Attachment and Relationship Dynamics · Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development · Clinical Psychology · Family Support in Illness · Medicine · Psychology