The Role of Nonattachment in the Development of Adolescent Mental Health: a Three-Year Longitudinal Study

Nonattachment involves a flexible way of relating to ideas without clinging to them and is hypothesized to be beneficial to mental health. However, no longitudinal research has examined this hypothesis. We conducted a three-wave longitudinal study to examine the extent that nonattachment was an antecedent to improvements in mental health. A large sample of students (males = 1162; females = 1186) from 16 high schools completed the Nonattachment...