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Showing 1 to 20 of 51 for “"Attachment Anxiety"”.
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The impact of attachment anxiety on susceptibility to false memories
Previous research shows that people's attachment styles predict memory functioning. For example, people with relatively insecure attachment styles tend to forget relationship-relevant information, as well as negatively bias their emotional evaluations of interpersonal experiences over time. An …
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Attachment Anxiety and Condom Use: the Moderating Influence of Rejection-Salience
The purpose of this research was to examine how attachment anxiety and rejection-salience interacted to influence condom use intentions and beliefs. I manipulated rejection-salience specific to a sexual encounter (Study 1) and rejection-salience in general (Studies 2 and 3). I hypothesized that …
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Attachment Anxiety, Rape Myth Acceptance, and Sexual Compliance: A Replication and Extension
… and Forrest-Redfern (2022) hypothesized that attachment anxiety (AA) and rape myth acceptance (RMA) influence perceptions of unwanted sex and influence individual experiences of sexual compliance. The researchers found women who scored high on the AA scale were less likely to endorse …
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COMFORTABLE EXPLORATION: AN EXAMINATION OF THE LINK BETWEEN ATTACHMENT ANXIETY AND EMERGING ADULT RELIGIOUS BELIEF
… for the examination of religious exploration. Attachment theory postulates that a more secure attachment helps to facilitate exploration (Fredrickson, 2001; Shaver & Mikulincer, 2002). As attachment theory has been applied to religion, it has been argued that the internal working model …
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Assessing Attachment Anxiety as a Moderator of the Relationship Between Self-Distancing and Emotions Following Relationship Conflict
… perspectives. Specifically, those high in attachment anxiety tend to overperceive others’ rejection and negative evaluation of them and are less accurate when judging observers’ perceptions of themselves (Debbané et al., 2017). Yet, there has been little research exploring attachment …
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Adult Attachment Orientation and Physical Distance: Do Threat Primes Alter Perceptions of Interpersonal Proximity?
… was to examine whether adult romantic attachment and interpersonal threat bias people’s perceptions of physical distance within a social context. Across three separate studies, I assessed the interactive effects of attachment anxiety, attachment avoidance, and threat on perceptions of …
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Attachment and Shame-Coping Style: A Relationship Mediated by Fear of Compassion?
… study examined the association between adult attachment (i.e., attachment anxiety and attachment avoidance) and shame-coping style. Fear of compassion from others (FoC-FromOthers) and fear of compassion for self (FoC-ForSelf) were conceptualized as mediators between the attachment dimensions …
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Insecure Adult Attachment Predicts Engagement with Narrative Fiction
Individual differences in attachment orientations predict how deeply involved people become in social relationships, but do they also influence the extent to which they become invested in fictional social worlds? In Studies 13, we found that an interaction between attachment anxiety and avoidance …
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Bullying Behaviors and Attachment Styles
… have found correlations between maternal attachment and externalizing behaviors in females and between paternal attachment and externalizing behaviors (e.g., getting into fights) in males (Fagot et al., 1990), researchers have not looked specifically at the relationships between levels of …
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Assessment of Constructs Related to Childhood Aggression
… model first proposed by Meloy (2001) found attachment, anxiety, and attention difficulties in adults who evidenced severe aggression problems. The current study clarified how the adult model applies to children. That is, this study examined how attachment, anxiety, and attention are related …
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Influences of Attachment Style and Partner Presence on the Momentary Association of Pain and Negative Affect in Osteoarthritis
… This research examines the role of adult attachment style and momentary companionship in the affective and pain experiences of older adults living with chronic pain. Method. As part of a larger study examining everyday quality of life with physician-diagnosed knee osteoarthritis, 327 …
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Stepfamily relationships and attachment in young adulthood
… quality influences emerging adult reports of attachment anxiety and avoidance. However, the relationships between a child and their caregiver do not exist in isolation. Due to the interconnected nature of family relationships, it is likely that the relationships between siblings, biological …
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The Role of Attachment in Young Adults' Use of Facebook for Coping
… of this study was to explore the relations among attachment, offline coping, online coping, and adjustment, as well as to evaluate whether the rich-get-richer or social compensation hypotheses of Internet use explained these relations. Undergraduate students aged 17 to 25 years ( N = 296) …
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An investigation into the potential romantic appeal of convicted killers
… not. Also, women higher in sensation seeking and attachment avoidance with their fathers were more likely to find the killer attractive. Women higher in attachment anxiety with their fathers were less likely to find the killer attractive. Self-esteem, attachment avoidance with romantic partner, …
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Attachment patterns, prejudice, and empathy
… of my PhD is to examine one mechanism by which attachment security may lead to decreased prejudice, thus examining novel research hypotheses. Research supports the prediction that high attachment avoidance and high attachment anxiety are associated with high negativity toward outgroups (Hofstra, …
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Adult attachment and mental representations of significant others
According to attachment theory, the infant shapes perceptions on self and significant others based on his or her experience with the primary caregiver. These perceptions include thoughts and beliefs regards the extent to which the self is worthy of love, and the extent to which others are reliable …
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The Relationship Between Resilience, Attachment, and Emotional Coping Styles
… leads to positive long-term health outcomes. Attachment and emotional coping style literatures have both been tentatively linked to resilience, with dismissive and secure attachment styles as well as the repressive coping style positively associated with resilience. However, both avoidantly …
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Dismissing attachment and global and daily indicators of subjective well-being: An experience sampling approach
Attachment researchers have largely assumed that people who are dismissing (i.e., high on attachment avoidance and low on attachment anxiety) are maladjusted. Specifically, dismissing adults are construed as defensively suppressing their desire for intimacy at the expense of their emotional health. …
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Therapist Attachment, Emotion Regulation and Working Alliance within Psychotherapy for Personality Disorder
… examined the relationship between therapist attachment style, therapist emotion regulation and working alliance within psychotherapy for personality disorder. Psychological therapists (N = 44) were recruited from specialist personality disorder services and a personality disorder conference. …
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Jaunų suaugusiųjų prieraišumo dimensijų ir humoro stilių reikšmė pasitenkinimui romantiniais santykiais /
… romantic relationships is often associated with attachment dimensions, different styles of humor, and age and length of relationship. Nevertheless, the interactions between all these constructs are rarely the subject of research. Therefore, the present study sought to examine the …
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