Adolescent Attachment Insecurity and Parasympathetic Functioning Predict Future Loss Adjustment

Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin

Volumn 38, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 821-832

  Fagundes, Christopher P ^a   Diamond, Lisa M ^b   Allen, Kendrick P ^b  

^a THE OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF UTAH   (United States)

Author keywords

adolescence; attachment; heart rate variability; loss; RSA; stressful life events

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR; ADOLESCENT; ANXIETY; ARTICLE; BREATHING RATE; CHILD PARENT RELATION; DEPRESSION; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; FORECASTING; HEART RATE; HUMAN; LIFE EVENT; MALE; MENTAL STRESS; OBJECT RELATION; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PREDICTIVE VALUE; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; QUESTIONNAIRE; SINUS ARRHYTHMIA; SOCIAL ADAPTATION; SOCIOECONOMICS; STATISTICAL MODEL; THEORETICAL MODEL; UNITED STATES; VAGUS NERVE;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; ADOLESCENT; ANXIETY; ARRHYTHMIA, SINUS; DEPRESSION; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; FORECASTING; HEART RATE; HUMANS; LIFE CHANGE EVENTS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MODELS, THEORETICAL; OBJECT ATTACHMENT; PARENT-CHILD RELATIONS; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; QUESTIONNAIRES; RESPIRATORY RATE; SOCIAL ADJUSTMENT; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; UNITED STATES; VAGUS NERVE;

EID: 84861661329     PISSN: 01461672     EISSN: 15527433     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0146167212437429     Document Type: Article

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