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Showing 1 to 16 of 16 for “"romantic attachment"”.
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Do Adult Romantic Attachment Empathy and Social Skills Influence Mate Poaching Infidelity?.
… study examined the possibility that adult romantic attachment orientation, empathy, and social skills could either individually or jointly influence the expression of mate poaching behaviors. Participants (N = 404) were recruited from a Southern Appalachian university and ranged in age from …
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Models of Forgiveness and Adult Romantic Attachment in Ended Relationships: Forgiveness Over Time
… models of self and other as they relate to attachment, forgiveness, emotional and cognitive reactions to a breakup, relationship variables, and positive and negative feelings toward the self and former partner after a romantic relationship is ended. This study also tested how these variables …
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Parental bonding, adult romantic attachment, fear of intimacy, and cognitive distortions among child molesters.
… of influential order for parental bonding; adult romantic attachment; views of self, world/others, and the future; the fear of intimacy; and cognitive distortions among child molesters and non-offending controls. Child molesters receiving sex offender treatment reported more problematic parental …
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Relationships Between Black Female College Students' Relationships with Their Fathers and Adult Romantic Attachment
… their fathers during high school as related to romantic attachment and fear of intimacy. Although researchers have investigated the impact that early attachment bonds to mothers have for later psychosocial development, much less research has examined how attachment to fathers may be associated …
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The Relationship Of Romantic Attachment To Intimate Partner Violence Victimization And Perpetration: An Examination Of Individual Mediation And Moderation Variables
… & Fox, 2004; Murray & Kardatzke, 2007). Attachment theory may provide strong theoretical and empirical grounding for guiding IPV prevention and intervention efforts (Magdol et al., 1998; Schwartz et al., 2006; Scott, Wolfe, & Wekerle, 2003). The present study evaluated a variety of social …
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The relationship between adult attachment and trauma
… childhood interpersonal traumas perpetrated by attachment figures and the experience of trauma in adulthood. Very little is known, however, about how various forms of childhood interpersonal abuse and neglect affect trauma sequelae and adult romantic attachment in women during the childbearing …
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A Study Of Stability: Maternal Reflective Functioning From Pregnancy To Seven Months Postpartum
… Additional measures assessed parity, adult romantic attachment, and demographic factors. Stability of reflective functioning was assessed in two ways, continuously and categorically. Findings indicate that indeed, reflective functioning remained stable in the current sample from pregnancy to …
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Parental emotion coaching: How does it relate to attachment, anger, assertiveness, and conflict management?
… emotion dismissing (ED) and participants' anger, romantic attachment, assertiveness, and conflict management. EC and ED were assessed by a retrospective self-report developed by the author (RECS; Kroll, 2002), based on Gottman's theory (Gottman, Katz, & Hooven, 1996). Results suggested that for …
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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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Psychopathology and Sexual Addiction as Correlates of Disordered Attachment
… examined associations between insecure adult romantic attachment and symptoms of psychopathology, disordered personality, and problematic sexual behaviors in a clinical sample of 402 men in treatment for sexual addiction. Anxious and avoidant attachment were hypothesized to correlate with …
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The association between attachment style and uni- and bi-directional pursuer-distancer patterns in couples: A clinical sample of couples in counseling
… study examined the relationship between adult attachment style and pursuer-distancer patterns in couples. Both uni- and bi-directional pursuer-distancer patterns were studied. Participants were 67 individuals (including 32 couples) in therapy. Each partner, independent of the other, completed …
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EMOTIONAL BONDS AND FAIRNESS EXPERIENCES BETWEEN TRANSGENDER WOMEN AND THEIR CISGENDER PARTNERS: AN INTERPRETATIVE PHENOMENOLOGICAL EXPLORATION
… situated within frameworks of minority stress, romantic attachment, and contextual therapy theory. Seven couples of transgender women and their cisgender partners were interviewed. Questions included understanding contexts of transition and minority stress, and couples’ experiences with …
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Future of individuals after out-of-home care
… Ladder of Life, the Multi-item measure of adult Romantic Attachment, the Quality of Life Scale, the Connor-Davidson Resilience Scale, and the Rosenberg Self-Esteem Scale. After completing all the measures, the researcher asked the participants open-ended questions about their experiences of being …
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Adult Attachment Orientation and Physical Distance: Do Threat Primes Alter Perceptions of Interpersonal Proximity?
… of my dissertation 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 …
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Women's Sexual Self Schemas: A Cognitive Approach to Women's Sexuality
… of past and current relationship patterns and romantic attachment styles. Obtained results highlight predictable patterns of schema group differences across sexual/romantic behaviors, cognitions and affects. Specifically, results replicated and extended previous Positive-Negative schema group …
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Families under stress: Using the Double ABCX model to understand attachment relationships in families during military deployment
… ABCX model and examining stress management using attachment theory, there is no research combining the model to understand how they might be integrated in understanding stress and coping. The current study uses the Double ABCX model and research on attachment to suggest that attachment …