Mental models of attachment and coping with abortion Journal of Personality and Social Psychology

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1998-01-01

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Cozzarellı, Catherına
Sümer, Nebi
Major, Brenda

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This study explored the relationships between mental models of attachment and adjustment to abortion in 408 women undergoing a 1st-trimester abortion at a large free-standing abortion clinic. As expected, mental models of attachment were related to postabortion distress and positive well-being. These relationships were mediated by feelings of self efficacy for coping with abortion, perceived support from a woman's male partner, and perceived conflict from this same source. Model of self and model of others interacted only in predicting perceived conflict and positive well-being. Model of self was more strongly related to the mediator and outcome variables than was model of others. The effects of model of self, however, were largely a reflection of the overlap between model of self and self esteem.

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Abortion, Induced / Psychology, Adaptation, Psychological , Adult , Analysis of Variance , Female , Humans , Internal-External Control , Models, Psychological, New York, Object Attachment, Pregnancy , Regression Analysis , Self Concept , Social Support

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https://hdl.handle.net/11511/84473
https://psycnet.apa.org/record/1997-38975-013

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Journal Of Personality And Social Psychology

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C. Cozzarellı, N. Sümer, and B. Major, “Mental models of attachment and coping with abortion Journal of Personality and Social Psychology,” Journal Of Personality And Social Psychology, pp. 453–467, 1998, Accessed: 00, 2021. [Online]. Available: https://hdl.handle.net/11511/84473.