@article{ref1,
title="Parental bonding, adult attachment, and theory of mind: a developmental model of alexithymia and alcohol-related risk",
journal="Journal of clinical psychology (Hoboken)",
year="2019",
author="Lyvers, Michael and Mayer, Kaitlin and Needham, Katarina and Thorberg, Fred Arne",
volume="75",
number="7",
pages="1288-1304",
abstract="OBJECTIVE: A developmental model of alexithymia in relation to alcohol-related risk was examined. <br><br>METHOD: Validated indices of parental bonding, adult attachment, alexithymia, theory of mind (ToM), alcohol-related risk, and mood were administered to a nonclinical sample of 286 alcohol-using men and women. <br><br>RESULTS: Hierarchical regression incorporating demographic and psychosocial variables accounted for 44% of the variance in alexithymia. Modeling indicated a significant path from dysfunctional maternal bonding to insecure adult attachment to alexithymia to risky drinking; a separate path indicated an indirect effect of alexithymia in association between the deficient ToM and risky drinking. <br><br>CONCLUSIONS: Findings were consistent with a developmental model where dysfunctional parental bonding in childhood manifests in adulthood as insecure attachment and alexithymia, the latter reflecting the insufficient acquisition of emotion regulation skills; alexithymia, in turn, increases the risk of problematic drinking as an emotion regulation strategy.<br><br>© 2019 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="0021-9762",
doi="10.1002/jclp.22772",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/jclp.22772"
}