title: Mental models of attachment and coping with abortion.
abstract: This study explored the relationships between mental models of attachment and adjustment to abortion in 408 women undergoing a 1st-trimester abortion at a large free-standing abortion clinic. As expected, mental models of attachment were related to postabortion distress and positive well-being. These relationships were mediated by feelings of self-efficacy for coping with abortion, perceived support from a woman's male partner, and perceived conflict from this same source. Model of self and model of others interacted only in predicting perceived conflict and positive well-being. Model of self was more strongly related to the mediator and outcome variables than was model of others. The effects of model of self, however, were largely a reflection of the overlap between model of self and self-esteem.
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychology, Kansas State University, Manhattan 66502, USA. psycozz@ksu.edu
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Cozzarelli
authors.forename: N
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Sumer
authors.forename: B
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Major
mesh_terms: D000028:Abortion, Induced / Q000523:psychology*; D000223:Adaptation, Psychological; D000328:Adult; D000704:Analysis of Variance; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007389:Internal-External Control; D008960:Models, Psychological; D009518:New York; D009769:Object Attachment; D011247:Pregnancy; D012044:Regression Analysis; D012649:Self Concept; D012944:Social Support