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Attachment style and somatization
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Attachment style and somatization
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a multimethod approach to measuring the effect of emotional awareness
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ETD_2998
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http://hdl.rutgers.edu/1782.1/rucore10002600001.ETD.000056097
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eng
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theses
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Psychology
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Somatization disorder--Treatment
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Alexithymia
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Attachment disorder
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Social phobia
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Somatoform disorders
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The effect of attachment style on emotional awareness and somatization was examined using both self-report and implicit measures of negative affect. Attachment style and alexithymia were found play important roles in predicting the severity of somatic complaints independent of other indicators of negative affect. The significant interaction between alexithymia and attachment style indicated that alexithymics with a preoccupied attachment style are at the greatest risk of suffering from somatization. Follow up studies were conducted to measure the differential impact of attachment style on emotional awareness, a construct that has been previously linked to somatization. An anxiety-anger Implicit Association Test (IAT) was designed as a way to measure these negative emotions implicitly. Correlational analyses of both self-report and IAT responses of anxiety and anger grouped by attachment style revealed that the preoccupied attachment style is associated with the highest levels of emotional self-awareness while the dismissive attachment style is associated with the lowest levels. The effect of attachment style on emotional self-awareness was also revealed to be much greater in the presence of a stressor. In the final study, preliminary evidence of construct validity for the anxiety-anger IAT was established using a multi-trait multi-method correlational analysis. There was much greater convergent validity for implicit measures of anxiety compared to anger. In addition, an empirically derived construct labeled Emotional Unawareness and Evaluative Concern (EUEC) was shown to be an important moderator of anxiety when predicting somatization, with EUEC leading to greater levels of somatic complaints only under conditions of high anxiety. Implications for these findings leading to possible alternative treatments for somatization are discussed.
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viii, 147 p. : ill.
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Ph.D.
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by Daniel DePaulo
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Kent
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Kent Harber
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Paul
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Siegel
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Rutgers University
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Graduate School - Newark
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2010
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2010-10
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Rutgers University Electronic Theses and Dissertations
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ETD
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Graduate School - Newark Electronic Theses and Dissertations
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doi:10.7282/T3VQ32GB
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ETD doctoral
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The author owns the copyright to this work.
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Open
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2010-10-08 10:13:26
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I hereby grant to the Rutgers University Libraries and to my school the non-exclusive right to archive, reproduce and distribute my thesis or dissertation, in whole or in part, and/or my abstract, in whole or in part, in and from an electronic format, subject to the release date subsequently stipulated in this submittal form and approved by my school. I represent and stipulate that the thesis or dissertation and its abstract are my original work, that they do not infringe or violate any rights of others, and that I make these grants as the sole owner of the rights to my thesis or dissertation and its abstract. I represent that I have obtained written permissions, when necessary, from the owner(s) of each third party copyrighted matter to be included in my thesis or dissertation and will supply copies of such upon request by my school. I acknowledge that RU ETD and my school will not distribute my thesis or dissertation or its abstract if, in their reasonable judgment, they believe all such rights have not been secured. I acknowledge that I retain ownership rights to the copyright of my work. I also retain the right to use all or part of this thesis or dissertation in future works, such as articles or books.
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