PMID- 22893805
OWN - NLM
STAT- PubMed-not-MEDLINE
DCOM- 20120823
LR  - 20211021
IS  - 2000-8066 (Electronic)
IS  - 2000-8198 (Print)
IS  - 2000-8066 (Linking)
VI  - 2
DP  - 2011
TI  - Attachment typologies and posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD), depression and 
      anxiety: a latent profile analysis approach.
LID - 10.3402/ejpt.v2i0.6018 [doi]
AB  - BACKGROUND: Bartholomew (1990) proposed a four category adult attachment model 
      based on Bowlby's (1973) proposal that attachment is underpinned by an 
      individual's view of the self and others. Previous cluster analytic techniques 
      have identified four and two attachment styles based on the Revised Adult 
      Attachment Scale (RAAS). In addition, attachment styles have been proposed to 
      meditate the association between stressful life events and subsequent psychiatric 
      status. OBJECTIVE: The current study aimed to empirically test the attachment 
      typology proposed by Collins and Read (1990). Specifically, LPA was used to 
      determine if the proposed four styles can be derived from scores on the 
      dimensions of closeness/dependency and anxiety. In addition, we aimed to test if 
      the resultant attachment styles predicted the severity of psychopathology in 
      response to a whiplash trauma. METHOD: A large sample of Danish trauma victims 
      (N=1577) participated. A Latent Profile Analysis was conducted, using Mplus 5.1, 
      on scores from the RAAS scale to ascertain if there were underlying homogeneous 
      attachment classes/subgroups. Class membership was used in a series of one-way 
      ANOVA tests to determine if classes were significantly different in terms of mean 
      scores on measures of psychopathology. RESULTS: The three class solution was 
      considered optimal. Class one was termed Fearful (18.6%), Class two Preoccupied 
      (34.5%), and Class three Secure (46.9%). The secure class evidenced significantly 
      lower mean scores on PTSD, depression, and anxiety measures compared to other 
      classes, whereas the fearful class evidenced significantly higher mean scores 
      compared to other classes. CONCLUSIONS: The results demonstrated evidence of 
      three discrete classes of attachment styles, which were labelled secure, 
      preoccupied, and fearful. This is in contrast to previous cluster analytic 
      techniques which have identified four and two attachment styles based on the 
      RAAS.In addition, Securely attached individuals display lower levels of 
      psychopathology post whiplash trauma.
FAU - Armour, Cherie
AU  - Armour C
AD  - National Centre of Psychotraumatology, University of Southern Denmark, Odense, 
      Denmark.
FAU - Elklit, Ask
AU  - Elklit A
FAU - Shevlin, Mark
AU  - Shevlin M
LA  - eng
PT  - Journal Article
DEP - 20111215
PL  - United States
TA  - Eur J Psychotraumatol
JT  - European journal of psychotraumatology
JID - 101559025
PMC - PMC3402106
OTO - NOTNLM
OT  - Attachment typology
OT  - anxiety
OT  - depression
OT  - latent profile analysis
OT  - posttraumatic stress disorder
EDAT- 2011/01/01 00:00
MHDA- 2011/01/01 00:01
PMCR- 2011/12/15
CRDT- 2012/08/16 06:00
PHST- 2011/01/20 00:00 [received]
PHST- 2011/09/08 00:00 [revised]
PHST- 2011/11/15 00:00 [accepted]
PHST- 2012/08/16 06:00 [entrez]
PHST- 2011/01/01 00:00 [pubmed]
PHST- 2011/01/01 00:01 [medline]
PHST- 2011/12/15 00:00 [pmc-release]
AID - EJPT-2-6018 [pii]
AID - 10.3402/ejpt.v2i0.6018 [doi]
PST - ppublish
SO  - Eur J Psychotraumatol. 2011;2. doi: 10.3402/ejpt.v2i0.6018. Epub 2011 Dec 15.