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The effects of adult attachment and life stress on daily depression: a sample of Japanese university students
Author(s) -
Liu Qingbo,
Nagata Toshiaki,
Shono Masahiro,
Kitamura Toshinori
Publication year - 2009
Publication title -
journal of clinical psychology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.124
H-Index - 119
eISSN - 1097-4679
pISSN - 0021-9762
DOI - 10.1002/jclp.20572
Subject(s) - psychology , depression (economics) , clinical psychology , multilevel model , attachment theory , stress (linguistics) , mood , mental health , intervention (counseling) , depressive symptoms , structural equation modeling , developmental psychology , psychiatry , anxiety , linguistics , philosophy , statistics , mathematics , machine learning , computer science , economics , macroeconomics
To investigate the relationship among adult attachment style, life stress, and daily depression, a sample of 437 undergraduate students was prospectively studied. Insecure adult attachment and perceived life stress were related to their daily depressive mood. Further analyses using both multiple hierarchical regression and structural equation models (SEM) demonstrated that adult attachment style and perceived life stress independently predicted depression and had no interactive effects on daily depression. The impact of adult attachment on depression was not contingent upon the presence of life stress and securely attached participants were less impacted by depression than insecurely attached ones. These results suggest that adult attachment can play an important role in mental health intervention and may be helpful when it comes to preventing and treating depression. © 2009 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. J Clin Psychol 65: 1–14, 2009.