Early memories of positive emotions and its relationships to attachment styles, self-compassion and psychopathology in adolescence
| dc.contributor.author | Cunha, Marina | |
| dc.contributor.author | Martinho, Maria Inês | |
| dc.contributor.author | Xavier, Ana Maria | |
| dc.contributor.author | Espirito-Santo, Helena | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2014-06-24T21:23:01Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2014-06-24T21:23:01Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2014-04-06 | |
| dc.description.abstract | Introduction: Literature has shown that early childhood experiences, especially those related to feelings of threat or safeness play a key role in emotional and social subsequent development. Objectives: (1) examine the impact of early memories of warmth and safeness on quality of attachment in adolescents; (2) Explore the relationship between early positive memories, self-compassion and psychopathology (depressive, anxiety and stress symptoms); (3) Explore the relative contribution of emotional memories and self-compassion in the prediction of depressive and anxiety symptoms. Methods: 651 adolescents (330 boys, 50.7%) aged between 12 and 18 years (M = 15.89, SD = 1.99), completed the early memories of warmth and safeness scale (EMWSS), self-compassion scale (SCS), attachment questionnaire (AQ-C) and anxiety, depression and stress scales (DASS-21). Results: Memories of warmth and safeness showed negative moderate correlations with anxiety and depressive symptoms, and positive moderate association with self-compassion. Additionally, positive emotional memories in childhood revealed adequate discriminant validity for attachment style. Adolescents classified with a secure attachment style showed significantly more early memories of warmth and safeness than those teenagers with insecure attachment (ambivalent or avoidance). Early positive memories and self-compassion have a significant and an independent contribution on the prediction of anxiety and depressive symptoms in adolescent community. Conclusions: The present study shows that the recall of emotional memories in childhood (e.g., feelings of warmth and safeness) is associated with self-compassion, as an emotion regulation process. So, these two variables may function as protective factors in the development of depressive and anxiety symptoms in adolescence. | pt_PT |
| dc.identifier.citation | Cunha, M., Martinho, M. I., Xavier, A. M. e Espirito-Santo, H. (2013). Early memories of positive emotions and its relationships to attachment styles, self-compassion and psychopathology in adolescence. European Psychiatry, 28(Supl. 1), 1. doi:10.1016/S0924-9338(13)76444-7 | pt_PT |
| dc.identifier.other | 10.1016/S0924-9338(13)76444-7 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://dspace.ismt.pt/xmlui/handle/123456789/390 | |
| dc.language.iso | eng | pt_PT |
| dc.peerreviewed | yes | pt_PT |
| dc.publisher | European Psychiatric Association | pt_PT |
| dc.relation.ispartofseries | Sup. 1; | |
| dc.relation.publisherversion | http://linkinghub.elsevier.com/retrieve/pii/S0924933813764447 | pt_PT |
| dc.rights | openAccess | pt_PT |
| dc.subject | Psychopathology | pt_PT |
| dc.subject | Self Compassion | pt_PT |
| dc.subject | Attachment Theory | pt_PT |
| dc.subject | Early Memories | pt_PT |
| dc.subject | Early Memories | pt_PT |
| dc.subject | Metaphor | pt_PT |
| dc.title | Early memories of positive emotions and its relationships to attachment styles, self-compassion and psychopathology in adolescence | pt_PT |
| dc.type | conferenceObject | pt_PT |
| degois.publication.location | 21st European Congress of Psychiatry | pt_PT |
| degois.publication.title | European Psychiatry | pt_PT |
| degois.publication.volume | 28 | pt_PT |