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15200694

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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
7
pubmed:dateCreated
2004-6-17
pubmed:abstractText
It is widely assumed that emotionally avoidant or defensive individuals will have a difficult time adjusting to the loss of a loved one. However, recent research suggests that defensive individuals tend to adapt quite well to loss. Such findings pose a number of challenges to attachment theory--a theory that has traditionally held that emotional avoidance is indicative of poor psychological adjustment. In this article, the authors argue that contemporary models of individual differences in adult attachment allow the derivation of at least three competing hypotheses regarding the relationship between avoidant attachment and adaptation to loss. These hypotheses are tested using two-wave data on 59 bereaved adults. Results indicate that whereas some avoidant individuals (i.e., those who are fearfully avoidant) have a difficult time adapting to the loss of a loved one, other avoidant adults (i.e., those who are dismissingly avoidant) show a pattern of resilience to loss.
pubmed:grant
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Jul
pubmed:issn
0146-1672
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:volume
30
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
878-90
pubmed:dateRevised
2011-2-10
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed:year
2004
pubmed:articleTitle
Attachment and loss: a test of three competing models on the association between attachment-related avoidance and adaptation to bereavement.
pubmed:affiliation
University of Illinois at Chicago, USA.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, Research Support, U.S. Gov't, P.H.S.