A meta-analysis of the relation between patient adult attachment style and the working alliance. Review uri icon

Overview

abstract

  • This meta-analysis synthesizes research on the relation between patient adult attachment style and patient-rated working alliance. A random-effects model was used to calculate the mean weighted product-moment correlation (r) for 24 studies (12 published in peer-reviewed journals and 12 unpublished doctoral dissertations) of individual outpatient therapy with adults. The mean weighted r for attachment avoidance and alliance was -.137, p<.001, and the mean weighted r for attachment anxiety and alliance was -.121, p<.001. These findings suggest that therapists should attend to attachment in order to foster alliance and have additional implications for theory and future research.

publication date

  • July 26, 2013

Research

keywords

  • Mental Disorders
  • Object Attachment
  • Professional-Patient Relations
  • Psychotherapy

Identity

Scopus Document Identifier

  • 84890426217

Digital Object Identifier (DOI)

  • 10.1080/10503307.2013.809561

PubMed ID

  • 23885860

Additional Document Info

volume

  • 24

issue

  • 1