Not only do anxiety and depression diagnoses tend to co-occur, but their symptoms are
highly correlated. Although a plethora of research has examined longitudinal associations …

Highlights•Describes how anxiously and avoidantly attached people think, feel, and behave
when distressed.•Reviews key principles of attachment theory.•Indicates how attachment …

Attachment theory provides a framework for understanding the correlations among
interpersonal relationships, stress, and health. Moreover, adult attachment is an important …

One of the long-standing debates in the study of adult attachment is whether individual
differences are best captured using categorical or continuous models. Although early …

For decades, attachment scholars have been investigating how parents' adult attachment
orientations relate to the ways in which they parent. Traditionally, this research has been …

Relationship science is a theory-rich discipline, but there have been no attempts to articulate
the broader themes or principles that cut across the theories themselves. We have sought to …

Objectives: Health psychology has contributed significantly to understanding the link
between psychological factors and health and well-being, but it has not often incorporated …

In this chapter, we discuss attachment theory and our programs of research on how
individuals with different adult attachment orientations think, feel, and especially behave …

Objective Although attachment dynamics are thought to be important across the life span,
relatively few studies have examined attachment processes beyond young adulthood …

Although insecure adult attachment is thought to be associated with depressive symptoms,
results of research on the link between attachment dimensions (attachment anxiety and …