Relationship between Attachment Style and Self-esteem: The Meditating Role of the Attitude towards Bodily Sensations, Mindfulness, Rumination, and Resilience

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  • 愛着スタイルと自尊感情との関連性 : 身体感覚への態度、マインドフルネス、反すう、レジリエンスの媒介効果

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This study examined the relationship between attachment style and self-esteem and the mediating role of the attitude toward bodily sensations, mindful attention and awareness, rumination, and resilience. Participants were 456 undergraduate students. Correlation analysis and multiple regression analysis indicated that a secure attachment style had a direct effect on enhancing self-esteem. In addition, self-esteem was indirectly enhanced via a positive attitude toward bodily sensations, mindful attention and awareness, controlled rumination, and resilience. In contrast, an ambivalent attachment style had a direct negative effect on self-esteem. Both the ambivalent and the avoidant attachment style had indirect negative impacts on self-esteem through preoccupation with uncomfortable bodily sensations, less mindful attention and awareness, less control of rumination, and less resilience. Based on cluster analysis, the participants were classified into four groups based on their attachment style: an “insecure-mixed” style of attachment, an “avoidant” style of attachment, an “ambivalent” style of attachment, and a “secure” style of attachment. Results of one-way analysis of variance revealed that the “secure” attachment group had the highest scores for a positive attitude toward bodily sensations, mindful attention and awareness, controllability of rumination, and resilience while the “insecure-mixed” attachment group had the lowest scores. These results were discussed in terms of the relationship between attachment style and the attitude toward bodily sensations, mindful attention and awareness, controllability of rumination, and resilience.

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