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Associations between insecure attachment styles to parents and suicidal ideation in adolescents with depression Cover

Associations between insecure attachment styles to parents and suicidal ideation in adolescents with depression

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|Apr 2021

Figures & Tables

FIGURE 1.

Study participants from initial screening through analysis

TABLE 1.

Descriptive statistics and correlation matrix of study variables

VariableNIQRMSD12345678
1. Suicidal ideation (SIQ)5018.75-60.2540.1223.48-
2. Depression score (BDI-II)4930-4135.438.76.54**
3. Age5014-1614.981.3-.19-.04
4. Gender50-.13-.20.05
5. Attachment avoidance -mother492.67-4.833.721.42.36*.15-.04.15
6. Attachment anxiety - mother491.3-172.261.36.36*.04.09.09.23
7. Attachment avoidance -father453.17-5.584.211.64.20.05-.1.11.23.12
8. Attachment anxiety - father451.17-4.172.791.36.27.04.26-.07-.09.45**.30-

1 Note. IQR = interquartile range.

2 *Significance at the p < .05. level (2-tailed); ** significance at the p <.01 level (2-tailed)

TABLE 2.

Insecure attachment in relation to the mother and father. Multiple linear regression analyses with suicidal ideation as the dependent variable (N=43)

Model 0Model 1Model 2Model 3
Insecure attachment styles in relation to motherInsecure attachment styles in relation to fatherAttachment anxiety in relation to mother and father
Independent variableBSECI (95%)BSECI (95%)BSECI (95%)BSECI (95%)
Gender-6.658.61[-23.53, 10.23]-4.027.99[-19.67, 11.63]-8.148.48[-24.76, 8.48]-7.607.75[-22.79, 7.60]
Age-3.802.20[-8.11, .52]-3.971.99[-7.89, -.06]-4.842.22[-9.19, -,48]-4.902.03[-8.87, -.93]
Depression score1.20.37[.47, 1.93]1.14.34[.49, 1.80]1.11.35[.42, 1.80]1.10.33[.43, 1.73]
Attachment avoidance - mother2.012.10[-2.11, 6.12]
Attachment anxiety - mother5.652.02[1.69, 9.61]4.932.11[.80, 9.06]
Attachment avoidance - father1.181.98[-2.71, 5.07]
Attachment anxiety - father3.831.92[.06, 7.59]2.561.80[-.96, 6.08]
R2 adj.26.40.34.42

1 Notes. B = Unstandardized Beta; SE = Standard Error; R2 = Adjusted Effect size

Language: English
Page range: 41 - 51
Published on: Apr 9, 2021
Published by: Center for Evidence-based Psychiatry
In partnership with: Paradigm Publishing Services
Publication frequency: 1 issue per year

© 2021 Luxsiya Waraan, Lars Mehlum, Erling W. Rognli, Nikolai O. Czajkowski, Marianne Aalberg, published by Center for Evidence-based Psychiatry
This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.