TY - JOUR
T1 - Attachment Style and Self-Experience
T2 - The Association Between Attachment Style and Self-Reported Altered Self-Experience in Patients With Psychotic Disorders, Unaffected Siblings, and Healthy Controls
AU - de With, Justine
AU - de Haan, Lieuwe
AU - Schirmbeck, Frederike
N1 - Funding Information: The infrastructure for the GROUP study is funded through the Geestkracht Programme of the Dutch Health Research Council (Zon-Mw, grant number 10-000-1001), matching funds from participating pharmaceutical companies (Lundbeck, AstraZeneca, Eli Lilly, and Janssen Cilag), universities, and mental health care organizations (Amsterdam: Academic Psychiatric Center of the Academic Medical Center and the mental health institutions: GGZ Ingeest, Arkin, Dijk en Duin, GGZ Rivierduinen, Erasmus Medical Center, GGZ Noord Holland Noord; Groningen: University Medical Center Groningen and the mental health institutions: Lentis, GGZ Friesland, GGZ Drenthe, Dimence, Mediant, GGNet Warnsveld, Yulius Dordrecht, and Parnassia Psycho-Medical Center The Hague; Maastricht: Maastricht University Medical Center and the mental health institutions: GGzE, GGZ Breburg, GGZ Oost Brabant, Vincent van Gogh voor Geestelijke Gezondheid, Mondriaan, Virenze riagg, Zuyderland GGZ, MET ggz, Universitair Centrum Sint Jozef Kortenberg, CAPRI University of Antwerp, PC Ziekeren Sint-Truiden, PZ Sancta Maria Sint-Truiden, GGZ Overpelt, OPZ Rekem; Utrecht: University Medical Center Utrecht and the mental health institutions: Altrecht, GGZ Centraal, and Delta). Publisher Copyright: © Wolters Kluwer Health, Inc. All rights reserved.
PY - 2023/6/1
Y1 - 2023/6/1
N2 - The present study aimed to examine the cross-sectional association between attachment style and self-reported disturbed self-awareness (disturbed sense of mineness of experiences) and depersonalization (disturbed sense of first-person perspective) in patients with psychotic disorders, unaffected siblings, and healthy controls. Data pertain to a subsample of the GROUP (Genetic Risk and Outcome of Psychosis) study. We found positive associations between anxious attachment and disturbed self-awareness and depersonalization across participants with different psychosis vulnerability. We also found a positive association between avoidant attachment and depersonalization, although on a trend level. Findings indicate that attachment style is associated with self-reported disturbed self-awareness and depersonalization over and above the influence of psychotic or depressive experiences in people across the vulnerability spectrum of psychosis. This supports the importance of attachment style, self-awareness, and depersonalization as potential targets in prevention and treatment interventions in patients with psychotic disorders or those with increased vulnerability.
AB - The present study aimed to examine the cross-sectional association between attachment style and self-reported disturbed self-awareness (disturbed sense of mineness of experiences) and depersonalization (disturbed sense of first-person perspective) in patients with psychotic disorders, unaffected siblings, and healthy controls. Data pertain to a subsample of the GROUP (Genetic Risk and Outcome of Psychosis) study. We found positive associations between anxious attachment and disturbed self-awareness and depersonalization across participants with different psychosis vulnerability. We also found a positive association between avoidant attachment and depersonalization, although on a trend level. Findings indicate that attachment style is associated with self-reported disturbed self-awareness and depersonalization over and above the influence of psychotic or depressive experiences in people across the vulnerability spectrum of psychosis. This supports the importance of attachment style, self-awareness, and depersonalization as potential targets in prevention and treatment interventions in patients with psychotic disorders or those with increased vulnerability.
KW - Disturbed self-awareness
KW - depersonalization
KW - schizophrenia spectrum disorders
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U2 - https://doi.org/10.1097/NMD.0000000000001634
DO - https://doi.org/10.1097/NMD.0000000000001634
M3 - Article
C2 - 36971431
SN - 0022-3018
VL - 211
SP - 440
EP - 447
JO - Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease
JF - Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease
IS - 6
ER -