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The Relationship Between Resilience, Attachment, And Emotional Coping Styles, Jennika K. Jenkins
The Relationship Between Resilience, Attachment, And Emotional Coping Styles, Jennika K. Jenkins
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The construct of resilience has been widely associated with the ability to adequately cope with stressors, which leads to positive long-term health outcomes. Attachment and emotional coping style literatures have both been tentatively linked to resilience, with dismissive and secure attachment styles as well as the repressive coping style positively associated with resilience. However, both avoidantly attached and repressive individuals employ coping strategies that allow them to dissociate from negative emotions, which seems to contradict the stress adaptive quality of resilience. The goal of this study was to explore the theoretical parallel between the attachment and emotional coping styles literature …