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Showing 1 to 20 of 4174 for “"attachment"”.
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Childhood attachment patterns and internalized working models of attachment
… in lights of Bowlby's (1969/1982. 1973, & 1980) attachment theory, the construct of internal working models of attachment and the hierarchical nature of these models.
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Attachment and Psychotherapy
… alliance and both patient and therapist attachment styles. 14 therapists and 27 patients participated. 78.57% (n = 11) therapists and 29.63% (n = 8) patients were classified as securely attached by self-report measures. It was predicted that more patients of secure therapists would show …
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Evaluating a New Measure of Adult Attachment: The Tripartite Attachment Battery
The Tripartite Attachment Battery (TAB) is a new set of self-report scales of individual differences in adult attachment characteristics. It measures: (a) attachment security (Secure Attachment Scale), (b) attachment anxiety and avoidance, as well as their corresponding secondary attachment …
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Psychopathy and Attachment: Examining the Relationship between Secure Attachment Priming and Psychopathy
… in order to examine the relationship between attachment dimensions and expressed psychopathy; specifically, it was hypothesized that security priming would reduce levels of expressed psychopathy. A repeated measures design was also used to assess the association between state attachment …
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Addressing the Dual Primary Attachment Figure Model: An Exploration of Father Attachment
<p>This study attempted to investigate father attachment using the dual primary attachment figure model by examining caregiving and exploration behaviors of mothers and fathers as they relate to attachment security utilizing an archival data set of 177 young adult females. A subsequent factor …
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Adult Attachment as a Predictor of Relationship Functioning Over Time: A Comparison of Attachment Style Questionnaires and the Adult Attachment Interview
This study examined the association between adult attachment security, as measured by both attachment style questionnaires and the Adult Attachment Interview, and romantic relationship functioning in sample of dating couples over one year (115 couples at time 1, 57 couples at time 2). Relationship …
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Parental Attachment and Adult Attachment: The Moderating Role of Dispositional Forgiveness and Gratitude
<p>Secure parental attachment, characterized by trust, care, and autonomy granting, is associated with improved psychological functioning and adjustment to college and is often associated with adult attachment relationships. Similarly, adult attachment, a characteristic of adult relationships, has …
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Exploring the role of secondary attachment relationships in the development of attachment security.
The process by which earned-secures achieve attachment security in adulthood, despite having insecure parent-child relationships in childhood, was the focus of the current study. As internal working models are thought to be formed within relationships, specifically primary attachment bonds (Bowlby, …
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IN SEARCH OF A SIMPLIFIED, OBJECTIVE ATTACHMENT STYLE ASSESSMENT: THE ATTACHMENT IMPLICIT MEASURE
… <p>IN SEARCH OF A SIMPLIFIED, OBJECTIVE ATTACHMENT STYLE ASSESSMENT: THE ATTACHMENT IMPLICIT MEASURE</p> <p>By</p> <p>Lisa M. Savage</p> <p>Attachment is a lasting bond between two people (Bowlby, 1958). Bonding starts at birth and lasts through the lifetime (Bowlby, 1958). Emotional and …
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Attachment phenomena in foster families: Exploring contributions from foster parents' early attachment experiences
… the meanings of foster parents' early childhood attachment experiences with their parents and the influence of those meanings on foster parent's interactions with children in their care. Three research questions were the focus of this qualitative study: (a) How do perceptions of foster parents' …
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Children's mental representations of attachment: associations with attachment security and parent-child narrative quality
… of children’s mental representations of attachment at 5 years (Attachment Story Completion Task, Bretherton, Ridgeway, & Cassidy, 1990; MacArthur Story Stem Battery, Bretherton, Oppenheim, Buchsbaum, Emde, & the MacArthur Narrative Group, 1990). Predictors included children’s attachment …
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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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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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Attachment, Exploration, and Internalized Homonegativity
… investigates relations between child and adult attachment and IH. It further examines the mediating and moderating roles of exploration and mentalization, respectively, in the attachment–IH relation.</p> <p><strong>Method:</strong> One hundred fifty cisgender LGB adults participated in two waves …
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Attachment theory and therapeutic relationships
… the associations between current self-reported attachment styles, retrospective reports of childhood experiences, and the development of the therapeutic alliance. It was hypothesised that anxious and avoidant attachment would be correlated with negative childhood experiences and that both …
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Cell attachment to Zein surfaces
Nanostructured biomaterials have been recently investigated in various biomedical applications, such as tissue engineering and circulating cancer cell retrieval. Understanding the mechanism of cell-substrate interaction is pivotal for exploiting the potential of those materials. Adhesion of cells …
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A Chance for Change: Treating Disorganized Attachment With The Attachment Healing Center Model of Treatment
… model of treatment as implemented at the Attachment Healing Center for working with children who have been identified as having disorganized attachment. Multi-case methodology was used with five families representing five parents and five children. Grounded theory was used to analyze the …
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Relationship between attachment style, love style and attachment behaviour in intimate relationships of university students
… have expressed great concerns on love and attachment behaviour in intimate relationships, particularly because relationship difficulties have been found to account for a large part of subjective well-being, failed marriages and escalated rate of divorces as well as being regarded as a main …
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Psychophysiological differences in attachment and optimism
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Prenatal Maternal Attachment: The Lived Experience
Prenatal maternal attachment and the practice of health promoting behaviors during pregnancy are considered universal phenomena to women. Yet, the understanding of these phenomena from the lived experiences of pregnant women has not been well researched. The purpose of this phenomenological study …
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