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- Title
Mediators of the Link Between Adult Attachment and Mindfulness.
- Authors
Caldwell, Jon G.; Shaver, Phillip R.
- Abstract
The capacity to be mindfully aware of the present moment without judgment is associated with a number of positive psychological and physiological outcomes. Experiences in attachment relationships are related to specific cognitive-emotional patterns that may contribute to dispositional mindfulness. A sample of adults (N = 93) completed questionnaires regarding adult attachment, rumination, thought suppression, attentional control, and mindfulness. Attachment-related avoidance predicted lower levels of mindfulness, a relation mediated by thought suppression and poorer attentional control. Attachment-related anxiety also predicted lower levels of mindfulness, a relation mediated by rumination and poorer attentional control. The results suggest that in the context of insecure attachment relationships thought suppression and rumination defend against personal and interpersonal losses by deactivating (in the case of avoidance) or hyperactivating (in the case of anxiety) the attachment system. These habitual defensive patterns may be important links between adult attachment orientations and mindfulness.
- Subjects
MINDFULNESS; RUMINATION (Cognition); THOUGHT suppression; ATTENTION control; ANXIETY; EMOTIONS
- Publication
Interpersona, 2013, Vol 7, Issue 2, p299
- ISSN
1981-6472
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.5964/ijpr.v7i2.133