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The relationships of attachment style and social maladjustment to death ideation in depressed women with a history of childhood sexual abuse
Author(s) -
Smith Phillip N.,
Gamble Stephanie A.,
Cort Natalie A.,
Ward Erin A.,
Conwell Yeates,
Talbot Nancy L.
Publication year - 2012
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.20852
Subject(s) - psychology , suicidal ideation , sexual abuse , developmental psychology , clinical psychology , ideation , style (visual arts) , suicide prevention , poison control , medical emergency , medicine , cognitive science , archaeology , history
The current study examined the interaction of attachment orientation and acute social maladjustment as risk factors for death ideation in a sample of women with Major Depression and histories of childhood sexual abuse. Social maladjustment was associated with greater endorsement of death ideation. Avoidant and anxious attachment orientations moderated the social maladjustment and death ideation associations in some domains. Work‐related maladjustment was associated with greater odds of death ideation for those with higher attachment avoidance. Parent‐role maladjustment was associated with greater odds of death ideation for those with lower attachment anxiety. Findings demonstrate strong associations between death ideation and social maladjustment, and suggest that death ideation may be specific to certain domains of adjustment for anxious and avoidant attachment styles. © 2011 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. J Clin Psychol 68:1–10, 2011.