TITLE:
Shoulda’ Put a Ring on It: Investigating Adult Attachment, Relationship Status, Anxiety, Mindfulness, and Resilience in Romantic Relationships
AUTHORS:
Aileen M. Pidgeon, Alexandra C. Giufre
KEYWORDS:
Attachment, Romantic Relationships, Relationship Status, Anxiety, Mindfulness, Resilience
JOURNAL NAME:
Open Journal of Social Sciences,
Vol.2 No.11,
November
24,
2014
ABSTRACT: This study aimed to investigate the
predictive ability of relationship status, anxiety, mindfulness, and resilience
in relation to the two orthogonal dimensions of adult attachment: attachment
anxiety and attachment avoidance. 156 participants completed measures
assessing relationship status, adult attachment, anxiety, mindfulness and
resilience. The results showed that resilience and the relationship status of
single significantly predicted attachment anxiety, whereas anxiety and being
either single or divorced significantly predicted attachment avoidance. A
significant mediating role of resilience in the prediction of attachment
anxiety from being single was also observed. The main implications of this
study provided preliminary support for the significant predictive value of
resilience in attachment anxiety.