Dirks, Merlin (2024) Attachment and Prolonged Grief: A Longitudinal Study. Master thesis, Psychology.
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Abstract
The way people relate to others is theorized to influence responses to loss. Several studies found small to moderate positive correlations between prolonged grief symptoms and attachment avoidance and attachment anxiety. However, these studies did not control for prolonged grief symptoms at baseline. Studies that did, could not confirm these findings (e.g. Janshen et al., 2024). We conceptually replicated the study of Janshen et al. (2024) and expected to find a correlation between attachment styles (anxious and avoidant) and prolonged grief symptoms at follow-up when controlling for baseline prolonged grief symptoms. The sample consisted of 172 Dutch adults, who were bereaved at least one month ago. Attachment anxiety and attachment avoidance were assessed at baseline and prolonged grief symptoms at baseline and two months later, all with an online questionnaire. The results showed that attachment anxiety and attachment avoidance indeed predicted prolonged grief symptoms over time. However, the findings require critical consideration and allow for future research, which could investigate this over more extended time periods and could assess attachment to the deceased more precisely, possibly using a larger sample size.
| Item Type: | Thesis (Master) |
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| Supervisor name: | Masselman, I. and Eisma, M.C. |
| Degree programme: | Psychology |
| Differentiation route: | Clinical Psychology (CP) [Master Psychology] |
| Date Deposited: | 11 Feb 2025 14:55 |
| Last Modified: | 11 Feb 2025 14:55 |
| URI: | http://gmwpublic.studenttheses.ub.rug.nl/id/eprint/4631 |
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