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Purpose: To assess fear of intimacy (FOI) in the Lebanese population, and its correlates such as depression, social phobia, self‐esteem, attachment, and maladaptive schemas. Design/Methods: This cross‐sectional study, conducted between November 2017 and May 2018, enrolled 707 community‐dwelling participants. Results: Higher FOI scores were associated with an increase in the defectiveness schema (β = 0.483), social phobia score (β = 0.16), mistrust schema (β = 0.519), vulnerability schema (β = 0.482), emotional deprivation schema (β = 0.548), attachment style D (dismissing) (β = 0.913) and failure schema, whereas lower FOI was significantly associated with an increase in the entitlement schema (β = −0.362), insufficient schema (β = −0.377), and the self‐esteem score (β = −0.288). Practice Implications: Implementing educational programs are needed to enable persons to develop healthy intimate relationships, taking into account attachment styles and inappropriate early schemas. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Purpose: To evaluate the association of adults' attachment styles with mental disorders in Lebanon. Design/Methods: A cross‐sectional observational study enrolled 789 participants between November 2017 and March 2018. Findings: People with distress (with dismissing‐ and fearful‐dominant relationship styles) and people with instability (preoccupied‐dominant relationship style with equal presence of the secured, fearful, and dismissing styles) had higher alcohol use disorder, alexithymia, depression, anxiety, stress, decreased emotional intelligence (emotional awareness, emotional management, and social‐emotional awareness), burnout scores and suicidal ideation compared people with wellbeing, with a secure‐dominant relationship style. Practice implications: It is very important to assess bonding traits in disease prevention centers, caregiver institutions, employment assessments, and then coaching might help those individuals under risk to prevent mental health problems. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]