title: The relationships of attachment style and social maladjustment to death ideation in depressed women with a history of childhood sexual abuse.
abstract: 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.
authors: University of South Alabama,Mobile, AL 36688, USA. pnsmith@usouthal.edu
authors: Phillip N
authors: PN
authors: Smith
authors: Stephanie A
authors: SA
authors: Gamble
authors: Natalie A
authors: NA
authors: Cort
authors: Erin A
authors: EA
authors: Ward
authors: Yeates
authors: Y
authors: Conwell
authors: Nancy L
authors: NL
authors: Talbot
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D001008:Anxiety Disorders / Q000523:psychology; D002648:Child; D002650:Child Abuse, Sexual / Q000523:psychology*; D002675:Child, Preschool; D003863:Depression; D003865:Major Depressive Disorder / Q000523:psychology*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008875:Middle Aged; D009769:Object Attachment; D010554:Personality Disorders / Q000523:psychology; D011569:Psychiatric Status Rating Scales; D012307:Risk Factors; D012917:Social Adjustment; D059020:Suicidal Ideation; D055815:Young Adult