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Building a bridge between attachment and religious coping: tests of moderators and mediators
- Author:
- GRANQVIST Pehr
- Journal article citation:
- Mental Health Religion and Culture, 8(1), March 2005, pp.35-47.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
- Place of publication:
- Philadelphia, USA
Coping studies show that people often involve God in coping. Attachment studies suggest this should be particularly true for people with an insecure history, who use God as a surrogate figure to regulate distress (compensation hypothesis). The present questionnaire study is the first investigation of perceived attachment history and religious coping. It was tested if an insecure history is linked to involving God in coping, if parental religiousness moderates the association, and if religious coping mediates the link between an insecure history and compensatory religiosity characteristics. Results from 197 participants, from different religious and non-religious groups in the central parts of Sweden, supported the compensation hypothesis (i.e., an insecure history was linked to involving God). This support was moderated by parental religiousness. At low parental religiousness, religious coping mediated the association between an insecure history and compensatory religiosity characteristics. The Discussion proposes further cross-fertilization of attachment and religious coping.
Current attachment representations of incarcerated offenders varying in degree of psychopathy
- Authors:
- FRODI Ann, et al
- Journal article citation:
- Attachment and Human Development, 3(3), December 2001, pp.269-283.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
This Swedish study examines the current mental representations of early attachment relationships in 24 psychopathic criminal offenders, incarcerated in a forensic psychiatric hospital or a medium-security prison. The results pointed to an extensive over-representation of individuals who were dismissing of attachment and attachment-related experiences no secure individuals, and with the remainder being either unclassifiable or unresolved with regard to severe early abuse/ truama. Discusses the unique discourse of the dismissing individuals and on clinical implications.