Authors :
Sanjana Pillai
Volume/Issue :
Volume 7 - 2022, Issue 7 - July
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DOI :
https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6866969
Abstract :
The childhood of an individual is vital in determining who they will grow up to be in the future. A
safe, healthy, communicative family is bound to raise a well-functioning emotionally mature adult.
Childhood trauma has been defined by the National Institute Of Mental Health (USA) as “the
experience of an event by a child that is emotionally painful or distressful, which often results in
lasting mental and physical effects. More than two-thirds of children in community samples report
having experienced a traumatic incident by the age of 16.
A significant research in the year 2016, determined the relationship between childhood trauma
and attachment styles. In addition to this, the results of the research showed a negative, significant
relationship between childhood abuse and a secure attachment style. Furthermore, the results focused
on predicting the attachment styles of an individual having undergone a traumatic event. The results
indicated that participants displaying relatively high levels of childhood trauma tend to report
insecure types of attachment (fearful, preoccupied, and dismissing attachment styles) (Erozkan, 2016).
The current study aims to understand the impact of childhood trauma and attachment styles
among adults. Two tools were administered for this – the Adult Attachment Scale by Collins and
Childhood Trauma Questionnaire by P. Bernstein. The result indicated a significant correlation
between the two variables as well as having childhood trauma negatively predict attachment styles.
The childhood of an individual is vital in determining who they will grow up to be in the future. A
safe, healthy, communicative family is bound to raise a well-functioning emotionally mature adult.
Childhood trauma has been defined by the National Institute Of Mental Health (USA) as “the
experience of an event by a child that is emotionally painful or distressful, which often results in
lasting mental and physical effects. More than two-thirds of children in community samples report
having experienced a traumatic incident by the age of 16.
A significant research in the year 2016, determined the relationship between childhood trauma
and attachment styles. In addition to this, the results of the research showed a negative, significant
relationship between childhood abuse and a secure attachment style. Furthermore, the results focused
on predicting the attachment styles of an individual having undergone a traumatic event. The results
indicated that participants displaying relatively high levels of childhood trauma tend to report
insecure types of attachment (fearful, preoccupied, and dismissing attachment styles) (Erozkan, 2016).
The current study aims to understand the impact of childhood trauma and attachment styles
among adults. Two tools were administered for this – the Adult Attachment Scale by Collins and
Childhood Trauma Questionnaire by P. Bernstein. The result indicated a significant correlation
between the two variables as well as having childhood trauma negatively predict attachment styles.
