Attachment Insecurity and Depression: The Mediating Role of Interpersonal Emotion Regulation

ConclusionsThese results account for increasing risk of depression due to a vicious cycle in which anxious attached individuals use venting and reassurance-seek with the aim of decreasing their negative emotions, but reach the opposite result of exacerbating negative moods.
Source: Cognitive Therapy and Research - Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research