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Adult attachment measures: a 25-year review.

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In addition to reliability and validity, investigators need to consider relationship focus, attachment constructs, dimensions or categories of interest, and the time required for training, administration, and scoring.
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This article is published in Journal of Psychosomatic Research.The article was published on 2010-10-01. It has received 583 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Attachment measures & Attachment theory.

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Are Adult Attachment Styles Categorical or Dimensional? A Taxometric Analysis of General and Relationship-Specific Attachment Orientations

TL;DR: Findings indicate that dimensional models of attachment style may be better suited for conceptualizing and measuring individual differences across multiple levels of analysis.
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Risk factors across the eating disorders

TL;DR: This study sought to examine risk and onset patterns in anorexia nervosa, bulimia nervosa (BN), and binge eating disorder (BED), and results should inform future classification schemes and prevention programs.
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Non solus: Toward a psychology of family business

TL;DR: In this article, a psychological theory of family business, its conceptual base and its implications is presented, and examples for research opportunities and research questions based on these observations are provided. But, they do not discuss how to apply these concepts in family business research.
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Psychoanalysis and empirical research: the example of alexithymia.

TL;DR: Empirical research supports clinical observations and impressions that individuals with high degrees of alexithymia principally employ primitive defenses, have a limited capacity for empathy, exhibit deficits in mentalization, and do not respond well to traditional interpretive psychotherapies.
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The relationship between adult attachment style and post-traumatic stress symptoms: A meta-analysis

TL;DR: A random-effects model was used to analyse 46 studies to investigate the relationship between adult attachment styles and PTSD symptoms, revealing a medium association between secure attachment and lower PTSD symptoms and amedium association between insecure attachment and higher PTSD symptoms.
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Attachment and Loss

John Bowlby
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Patterns of Attachment: A Psychological Study of the Strange Situation

TL;DR: In this article, the effects of repetition of the "strange situation" on infants' behavior at home and in the classroom were discussed, as well as the relationship between infants' behaviour in the situation and their mothers' behaviour at home.
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Romantic Love Conceptualized as an Attachment Process

TL;DR: It is explored the possibility that romantic love is an attachment process--a biosocial process by which affectional bonds are formed between adult lovers, just as affectional Bonds are formed earlier in life between human infants and their parents.
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Attachment styles among young adults: a test of a four-category model

TL;DR: The proposed model was shown to be applicable to representations of family relations; Ss' attachment styles with peers were correlated with family attachment ratings.
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