Anxious Solitude and Self‐Compassion and Self‐Criticism Trajectories in Early Adolescence: Attachment Security as a Moderator. Issue 6 (28th August 2017)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Peter, Divya; Gazelle, Heidi
• Is Part Of: Child development. Volume 88:Issue 6(2017)
• Page Start: 1834
• Page End: 1848
• Publication Date: 2017-08-28
• Subjects: Child development -- Periodicals; Child psychology -- Periodicals; Child Development -- Periodicals; Child Development; Pediatrics -- Periodicals; Pedicatrics; 305.231
• DOI: 10.1111/cdev.12926
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 0009-3920

Abstract

Abstract : Youths' attachment representations with their parents were tested as moderators of the relation between peer‐reported anxious solitude and self‐compassion and self‐criticism trajectories from fifth to seventh grades. Participants were 213 youth, 57% girls, M = 10.65 years of age. Growth curves revealed that attachment representations with both parents moderated the relation between AS and self‐processes such that AS youth with (a) dual secure attachments demonstrated the most adaptive self‐processes, (b) one secure attachment demonstrated intermediately adaptive self‐processes, and (c) dual insecure attachments demonstrated the least adaptive self‐processes over time. AS youth with dual insecure attachments are of most concern because they demonstrated elevated and increasing self‐criticism over time, given evidence for relations between self‐criticism and internalizing psychopathology. Abstract : The title for this Special Section isOrigins of Children's Self‐Views, edited by Eddie Brummelman and Sander Thomaes