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  • Title: Attachment and dysthymia: the contributions of preoccupied attachment and agency of self to depression in women.
    Author: West M, George C.
    Journal: Attach Hum Dev; 2002 Dec; 4(3):278-93. PubMed ID: 12537847.
    Abstract:
    The present research evaluated a conceptual model that links preoccupied attachment to dysthymic disorder in women. From an original community sample of 420 women, 129 women were identified with depressive symptomatology as assessed by the Centre for Epidemiological Studies Depression scale (CES-D). Twenty-four of these 129 women were diagnosed as dysthymic disordered according to the Structured Clinical Interview for DSM-III-R-non-patient edition (SCID-NP). Attachment patterns were assessed using the Adult Attachment Projective (AAP). The results indicate that preoccupied attachment was associated with dysthymia. Discussion concerns the processes that may underlie the association between preoccupied attachment and depression, with attention to the possibly complicating factor of unresolved mourning.
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