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The relationships between psychological mindedness, parental bonding and adult attachment
Kathryn Bourne1, Katherine Berry, Lisa Jones
1School of Psychological Sciences, University of Manchester, UK.
Objectives:
The aims of this study were to clarify the relationship between psychological mindedness and attachment relationships in childhood and adulthood.
Design:
This analogue study examined associations between psychological mindedness and attachment using a cross-sectional design.
Method:
Participants completed questionnaire measures of psychological mindedness, parental bonding, and adulthood attachment relationships.
Results:
As hypothesized, psychological mindedness was strongly, negatively correlated with attachment avoidance in adulthood. Psychological mindedness was also positively correlated with perceived maternal care in childhood, and negatively correlated with perceived paternal over-protection. However, a regression analysis found that attachment avoidance in adulthood was a more significant predictor of psychological mindedness than parental bonding experiences in childhood.
Conclusions:
Further research is needed to replicate associations between attachment and psychological mindedness in clinical samples and to explore additional constructs which influence psychological mindedness.
Practitioner Points:
High attachment avoidance may be a potential risk factor for poor psychological mindedness. Helping individuals to develop more secure attachments in their adult relationships may improve their psychological mindedness.
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