Adult attachment and emotional awareness impairment: a multimethod assessment
C Fantini-Hauwel1, A H Boudoukha2, T Arciszewski3
1Université Libre de Bruxelles, Faculté des sciences psychologiques et de l'éducation, Unité de Psychologie différentielle et clinique, Bruxelles, Belgium.
Abstract:
Our objective was to explore the relationships between adult attachment and various aspects of emotional awareness, including alexithymia and level of emotional awareness. Participants were 112 university students who completed the Attachment Style Questionnaire, the Bermond-Vorst Alexithymia Questionnaire (BVAQ), and the Level of Emotional Awareness Scale. We found that alexithymia was positively related to the avoidant attachment style and negatively with the anxious attachment style. Anxious style-but not avoidance-was also related to the level of emotional awareness. An analysis of the four attachment categories revealed subtle differences regarding the subscales of the BVAQ. Findings are discussed with reference to internal working models of self and others, highlighting the relationship between emotional awareness impairment and interpersonal behaviour.
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