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Relationship between attachment styles and dissociative experiences in young adults

Author(s) Ms Rehat Grover, Dr.Pankaj Singh
Country India
Abstract Childhood trauma and the attachments formed during the same are very crucial in the young adults. It decides how the person engages with the outer world as well as how they battle the inner conflicts as well.
to better understand the ramification of attachment styles, we assessed them in relation to the dissociative experiences one may endure on a daily basis. Such experiences can range from anywhere from mild to severe changes in one’s consciousness. While the attachment theories explain how one may regulate their own emotions and cope up with the various adversities of life.
all the individuals supposedly have attachment styles from secure to anxious as well as disorganized and avoidant. These define how one may behave in their relations with others. We hypothesized that secure attachment would be less associated with the experience of dissociation than the avoidant or anxious ones. This is a quantitative study with a sample of 100 young adults from different backgrounds and we employed the attachment styles questionnaire and the dissociative experiences scale. the data analysis was done using multiple regression and t tests, wherein it was found as we hypothesized that anxious and avoidant attachments were correlated with high dissociative experiences than that of secure attachments.
Keywords Keywords: attachment styles, secure, avoidant, anxious, dissociative experiences
Field Sociology > Philosophy / Psychology / Religion
Published In Volume 8, Issue 3, May-June 2026
Published On 2026-05-19

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