Longitudinal association between adolescent attachment, adult romantic attachment, and emotion regulation strategies
Abstract
Attachment security towards parents and peers in adolescence, and romantic attachment styles and emotion regulation strategies in young adulthood, were evaluated using an eight-year longitudinal design. Fifty-six young adults completed the Inventory of Parent and Peer Attachment (IPPA) at age 14, and then, at age 22, the Experience in Close Relationships (ECR) and the Coping Inventory for Stressful Situations (CISS), an emotion regulation questionnaire concerning coping strategies, including task-oriented versus emotion-oriented foci. Results indicated that greater insecurity to parents and peers in adolescence predicted a more anxious romantic attachment style and greater use of emotion-oriented strategies in adulthood. Concurrently, anxious adult attachment style was related to more emotion-oriented strategies, whereas an avoidant attachment style was related to less support-seeking. Analyses also identified emotion-oriented coping strategies as a partial mediator of the link between adolescent attachment insecurity to parents and adult anxious attachment, and a complete mediator of the association between adolescent attachment insecurity to peers and adult anxious attachment. These findings support the core assumption of continuity in attachment theory, where relationships to parents influence close romantic relationships in adulthood.
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Pascuzzo et al. (2013) found that adverse emotion-oriented coping was longitudinally associated with attachment anxiety in emerging adults.
“Additionally, adverse emotion-oriented coping (e.g., self-blaming and denial) was found to be longitudinally associated with attachment anxiety in emerging adults (Pascuzzo et al., 2013).”
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- Authors
- Pascuzzo, K., Cyr, C., & Moss, E.
- Affiliations
- Université du Québec à Montréal (CA)
- Corresponding author
- Pascuzzo, Katherine
- Venue
- Attachment & Human Development
- Publisher
- Informa UK Limited
- Published
- 2012-12-06
- Volume
- 15
- Issue
- 1
- Pages
- 83-103
- ISSN
- 1461-6734 (ISSN-L)
- 1469-2988
- OpenAlex
- W2043957213
- Cited by
- 171
- References
- 63
- Citations by year
- 2026: 13 · 2025: 12 · 2024: 19 · 2023: 18 · 2022: 14 · 2021: 22 · 2020: 14 · 2019: 13 · 2018: 15 · 2017: 9 · 2016: 9 · 2015: 6 · 2014: 5 · 2013: 2
- FWCI
- 6.25
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- Attachment & Human Development (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Social Psychology › Attachment and Relationship Dynamics
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Clinical Psychology › Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Clinical Psychology › Psychoanalysis and Psychopathology Research
- Keywords
- adolescent attachment, attachment security, romantic attachment, emotion regulation strategies, emotion-focused coping, insecure attachment, attachment anxiety, attachment avoidance, peer attachment, parental attachment, early adulthood, support seeking
- MeSH terms
- Adaptation, Psychological, Adolescent, Avoidance Learning, Courtship, Emotions, Female, Humans, Interpersonal Relations, Longitudinal Studies, Male, Object Attachment, Peer Group, Quebec, Surveys and Questionnaires, Regression Analysis, Young Adult
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