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Post-traumatic Stress Symptoms and Adult Attachment: A 24-year Longitudinal Study
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American Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry. 22(12)
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ObjectivesAttachment theory has become a key framework for understanding responses to and consequences of trauma across the life course. We predicted that more severe post-traumatic stress (PTS) symptoms at age 37 years would be associated with insecure attachment at age 55 and with worse PTS symptoms 24 years later at age 61, and that age 55 attachment would mediate the influence of earlier PTS symptoms on later symptoms.DesignData on PTS self-reported symptoms were available for 975 community-dwelling participants from the longitudinal Vietnam Era Twin Study of Aging at ages 37 and 61 years. At age 55, participants completed the Experiences in Close Relationships Inventory, a measure of adult attachment.ResultsPTS symptoms at ages 37 and 61 correlated (r = 0.43; p