Robyn A. Zakalik

TL;DR: The authors examined whether social self-efficacy and self-disclosure serve as mediators between attachment and feelings of loneliness and subsequent depression, and found that social selfefficacy mediated the association between attachment anxiety and feeling of loneliness, whereas selfdisclosure mediated the relationship between attachment avoidance and feelings with feelings of depression.

TL;DR: In this article, the mediating role of affect regulation among attachment, negative mood, and interpersonal problems was examined and it was found that attachment anxiety and avoidance contributed to negative mood and interpersonal problem through different and distinct affect regulation strategies (i.e., emotional reactivity or emotional cutoff).

TL;DR: This paper examined basic psychological needs satisfaction (i.e., the need for autonomy, competence, and relatedness) as a mediator between adult attachment and distress (e.g., shame, depression, and loneliness).

TL;DR: This paper examined factorial invariance, structured means, and association with negative mood of adult attachment across four ethnic groups: African American, Asian American, Hispanic American, and Caucasian college students.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examined a model in which the link between depressive symptoms and attachment anxiety is mediated by capacity for self-reinforcement and need for reassurance from others.