J Pers October 1998 PMID 9802235

Attachment styles and personality disorders: their connections to each other and to parental divorce, parental death, and perceptions of parental caregiving.

K A Brennan, P R Shaver

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The study explores how attachment styles (patterns of relating to others) and personality disorders (mental health conditions affecting personality) are connected, especially in relation to family background factors like parental divorce and death.
Researchers found significant overlap between attachment styles and certain personality disorders, suggesting they might share common origins, with two specific personality disorder dimensions closely linked to attachment patterns.
The findings also showed that both attachment styles and personality disorders are influenced by family background factors, supporting the idea that insecure attachment and many personality disorders may develop from similar early life experiences, encouraging further research in this area.]

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Attachment styles and personality disorders: their connections to each other and to parental divorce, parental death, and perceptions of parental caregiving.

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