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Anxious attachment and excessive acquisition: The mediating roles of anthropomorphism and distress intolerance
BACKGROUND AND AIMS: Most individuals with hoarding disorder (HD) are prone to excessively acquiring new possessions. Understanding the factors that contribute to this collecting behavior will allow us to develop better treatment approaches for HD. The aim of this study was to test our assumption th...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6035017/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29444605 http://dx.doi.org/10.1556/2006.7.2018.08 |
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author | Norberg, Melissa M. Crone, Cassandra Kwok, Cathy Grisham, Jessica R. |
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description | BACKGROUND AND AIMS: Most individuals with hoarding disorder (HD) are prone to excessively acquiring new possessions. Understanding the factors that contribute to this collecting behavior will allow us to develop better treatment approaches for HD. The aim of this study was to test our assumption that an anxious attachment style is associated with a tendency to anthropomorphize comforting objects and an inability to tolerate distress, which in turn leads to excessive acquisition. METHODS: A total of 361 participants with subclinical to clinical acquisition problems (77.8% female) completed a series of self-report measures. RESULTS: As expected, greater anxious attachment was related to greater distress intolerance and stronger tendencies to anthropomorphize inanimate objects. In turn, greater distress intolerance and anthropomorphism were related to more excessive buying and greater acquisition of free items. Examination of the pathways and indirect effects showed support for double mediation rather than serial mediation, as distress intolerance did not predict anthropomorphism. DISCUSSION AND CONCLUSION: These novel findings, if replicated, suggest that adding treatment modules that target improving distress tolerance and reducing anthropomorphism to standard treatment for HD may lead to further reductions in excessive acquiring. |
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spelling | pubmed-60350172018-07-09 Anxious attachment and excessive acquisition: The mediating roles of anthropomorphism and distress intolerance Norberg, Melissa M. Crone, Cassandra Kwok, Cathy Grisham, Jessica R. J Behav Addict Full-Length Report BACKGROUND AND AIMS: Most individuals with hoarding disorder (HD) are prone to excessively acquiring new possessions. Understanding the factors that contribute to this collecting behavior will allow us to develop better treatment approaches for HD. The aim of this study was to test our assumption that an anxious attachment style is associated with a tendency to anthropomorphize comforting objects and an inability to tolerate distress, which in turn leads to excessive acquisition. METHODS: A total of 361 participants with subclinical to clinical acquisition problems (77.8% female) completed a series of self-report measures. RESULTS: As expected, greater anxious attachment was related to greater distress intolerance and stronger tendencies to anthropomorphize inanimate objects. In turn, greater distress intolerance and anthropomorphism were related to more excessive buying and greater acquisition of free items. Examination of the pathways and indirect effects showed support for double mediation rather than serial mediation, as distress intolerance did not predict anthropomorphism. DISCUSSION AND CONCLUSION: These novel findings, if replicated, suggest that adding treatment modules that target improving distress tolerance and reducing anthropomorphism to standard treatment for HD may lead to further reductions in excessive acquiring. Akadémiai Kiadó 2018-02-14 2018-03 /pmc/articles/PMC6035017/ /pubmed/29444605 http://dx.doi.org/10.1556/2006.7.2018.08 Text en © 2018 The Author(s) http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/) , which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium for non-commercial purposes, provided the original author and source are credited, a link to the CC License is provided, and changes – if any – are indicated. |
spellingShingle | Full-Length Report Norberg, Melissa M. Crone, Cassandra Kwok, Cathy Grisham, Jessica R. Anxious attachment and excessive acquisition: The mediating roles of anthropomorphism and distress intolerance |
title | Anxious attachment and excessive acquisition: The mediating roles of anthropomorphism and distress intolerance |
title_full | Anxious attachment and excessive acquisition: The mediating roles of anthropomorphism and distress intolerance |
title_fullStr | Anxious attachment and excessive acquisition: The mediating roles of anthropomorphism and distress intolerance |
title_full_unstemmed | Anxious attachment and excessive acquisition: The mediating roles of anthropomorphism and distress intolerance |
title_short | Anxious attachment and excessive acquisition: The mediating roles of anthropomorphism and distress intolerance |
title_sort | anxious attachment and excessive acquisition: the mediating roles of anthropomorphism and distress intolerance |
topic | Full-Length Report |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6035017/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29444605 http://dx.doi.org/10.1556/2006.7.2018.08 |
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