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- Title
SELF-REPORTED ATTACHMENT, INTERPERSONAL AGGRESSION, AND PERSONALITY DISORDER IN A PROSPECTIVE COMMUNITY SAMPLE OF ADOLESCENTS AND ADULTS.
- Authors
Crawford, Thomas N.; Shaver, Philip R.; Cohen, Patricia; Pilkonis, Paul A.; Gillath, Omri; Kasen, Stephanie
- Abstract
Anxious and avoidant attachment were assessed in the Children in the Community (CIC) Study during adolescence and adulthood using self-report scales developed for this prospective study. The convergent and discriminant validity of the new CIC attachment scales were evaluated and their stability was assessed across a 17-year interval. Attachment scales predicted DSM-IV personality disorders in theoretically coherent and clinically meaningful ways, especially when supplemented with a separate measure of interpersonal aggression. Cluster B and C personality disorder symptoms were associated with elevated anxious attachment. Avoidant attachment was positively associated with Cluster A symptoms and inversely associated with Cluster B and C symptoms. Interpersonal aggression was higher in Cluster B symptoms and lower in Cluster C symptoms, thus differentiating between these symptom clusters.
- Subjects
PERSONALITY disorders; ADULTS; ADOLESCENCE; ANXIETY; AGE groups; AGGRESSION (Psychology); ATTITUDE (Psychology); HUMAN behavior; MENTAL depression
- Publication
Journal of Personality Disorders, 2006, Vol 20, Issue 4, p331
- ISSN
0885-579X
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1521/pedi.2006.20.4.331