The effects of adult attachment and life stress on daily depression: a sample of Japanese university students.

@article{Liu2009TheEO,
  title={The effects of adult attachment and life stress on daily depression: a sample of Japanese university students.},
  author={Qingbo Liu and Toshiaki Nagata and Masahiro Shono and Toshinori Kitamura},
  journal={Journal of clinical psychology},
  year={2009},
  volume={65 7},
  pages={
          639-52
        }
}
To investigate the relationship among adult attachment style, life stress, and daily depression, a sample of 437 undergraduate students was prospectively studied. Insecure adult attachment and perceived life stress were related to their daily depressive mood. Further analyses using both multiple hierarchical regression and structural equation models (SEM) demonstrated that adult attachment style and perceived life stress independently predicted depression and had no interactive effects on daily… 
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