The Role of Attachment Style in Coping with Job Loss and the Empty Nest in Adulthood

• DOI: 10.2190/ag.65.4.d
• Publication Date: 2008-01-03T00:26:03Z
• Authors: Juliann Hobdy; Bert Hayslip; Patricia L. Kaminski; Barbara J. Crowley; Shelley Riggs; Christina York
• Keywords: Job loss; Job Stress

The current study employed a life events perspective to examine the relationship between attachment style and both adjustment coping processes in adults during two specific involving loss of renegotiation an relationship: launching children from family origin job loss, which represent normative non-normative transitions, respectively. Using median splits for each dimension (closeness, dependency, anxiety) define secure, anxious, avoidant styles, based on work Collins Read, analyses failed yield significant multivariate event by interaction. However, statistically main effect was obtained. Additionally, findings suggested that certain extent, impact is moderated gender, wherein supplemental analysis yielded gender level closeness data support notion securely attached individuals may be more equipped meet developmental challenges adulthood, extend previous limited women empty nest.