Mindfulness, Self-Compassion and Attachment: a Network Analysis of Psychopathology Symptoms in Adolescents
- PDF / 696,538 Bytes
- 11 Pages / 595.276 x 790.866 pts Page_size
- 104 Downloads / 223 Views
ORIGINAL PAPER
Mindfulness, Self-Compassion and Attachment: a Network Analysis of Psychopathology Symptoms in Adolescents Barbara Barcaccia 1,2 Susanna Pallini 7
&
Matti Cervin 3,4
&
Andrea Pozza 5
&
Oleg N. Medvedev 6
&
Roberto Baiocco 1
&
# Springer Science+Business Media, LLC, part of Springer Nature 2020
Abstract Objectives Mindfulness, positive self-related attitudes and secure attachment have been shown to protect against psychopathology during adolescence, but it is unknown how these factors are related to each other and which are most strongly linked to psychopathology symptoms. Methods A cross-sectional research design was used with a large sample of adolescents (aged 14 to 18 years; n = 1660) that completed validated measures of mindfulness, self-related attitudes, attachment, depression, anxiety and anger. We employed network analytic methods in order to better understand associations among these variables. Results Mindfulness was linked to lower levels of depression and anxiety while self-reassurance was linked to lower levels of anxiety and higher levels of anger. Self-hate was linked to depression. In turn, self-reassurance and self-hate were differentially linked to facets of attachment, particularly trust in parents. Conclusions Interventions combining mindfulness practice and clinical techniques based on attachment theory, which operate on different psychological levels, may improve self-related attitudes, which in turn can help ameliorate depression and anxiety in adolescents. Alternatively, interventions directly targeting self-related attitudes, particularly self-reassurance and self-inadequacy, hold promise to achieve positive effects on mental health among adolescents. Keywords Mindfulness . Self-compassion . Depression . Anxiety . Anger . Attachment . Adolescents
Electronic supplementary material The online version of this article (https://doi.org/10.1007/s12671-020-01466-8) contains supplementary material, which is available to authorized users. * Barbara Barcaccia [email protected] 1
Department of Social and Developmental Psychology, Sapienza University of Rome, Via dei Marsi 78, 00185 Rome, Italy
2
Associazione di Psicologia Cognitiva APC and Scuola di Psicoterapia Cognitiva srl SPC, Viale Castro Pretorio 116, 00185 Rome, Italy
3
Lund University, Lund, Sweden
4
Skåne Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Lund, Sweden
5
Department of Medical Sciences, Surgery and Neurosciences, University of Siena, Viale Mario Bracci 16, 53100 Siena, Italy
6
School of Psychology, University of Waikato, Hamilton 3240, New Zealand
7
Department of Education, Roma Tre University, Via di Castro Pretorio 20, 00185 Rome, Italy
A new fruitful dialogue has recently arisen on the relation between mindfulness studies and research in the field of attachment theory (Snyder et al. 2012). Secure attachment relationships and their internalised representation through internal working models (IWMs) have been shown to positively influence psychosocial development (Pallini et al. 2014; Pallini
Data Loading...
