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Attachment style and romantic love: Relationship dissolution
Judith A. Feeney,Patricia Noller +1 more
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The authors assessed attachment style differences in subjects' reports of the dissolution of romantic relationships and found that the three attachment styles differed strongly in their affective responses to dissolution, and that attachment style and mental models were also related to the occurrence of relationship termination.Abstract:
The present research was designed to assess attachment style differences in subjects' reports of the dissolution of romantic relationships. One hundred and ninety-three unmarried undergraduates completed questionnaire measures of relationship history, including relationship dissolution and attachment style (both the forced-choice measure used by Hazan & Shaver, 1987; and a Likert-type version derived from that measure). Subjects were also followed up 10 weeks later in order to assess the stability of attachment style and its relation to the formation and dissolution of relationships. As expected, the three attachment styles differed strongly in their affective responses to dissolution. Measures of attachment style and mental models were also related to the occurrence of relationship termination; in particular, subjects endorsing the avoidant attachment style were the most likely to experience relationship break-up. Change in self-reported attachment style was associated with the formation of a st...read more
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Adult Romantic Attachment: Theoretical Developments, Emerging Controversies, and Unanswered Questions
TL;DR: The theory of pair-bond attachment was originally formulated by C. Hazan and P. R. Shaver in 1987 and describes how it has evolved over more than a decade as mentioned in this paper.
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Airport separations: A naturalistic study of adult attachment dynamics in separating couples.
TL;DR: In this article, a questionnaire was designed to assess relationship length, attachment style, and degree of subjective distress in a couple separating and not separating from each other in a public airport, and their attachment behavior was observed unobtrusively.
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Physical, Emotional, and Behavioral Reactions to Breaking Up: The Roles of Gender, Age, Emotional Involvement, and Attachment Style:
TL;DR: Attachment-related anxiety was associated with greater preoccupation with the lost partner, greater perseveration over the loss, more extreme physical and emotional distress, exaggerated attempts to reestablish the relationship, and using drugs and alcohol to cope with loss.
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Being Committed: Affective, Cognitive, and Conative Components of Relationship Commitment
TL;DR: In this article, the authors present the first systematic empirical examination of the state of relationship commitment as advanced by Rusbult and her colleagues, defining the state in terms of affective, cognitive, and conative components.
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A Review of Adult Attachment Measures: Implications for Theory and Research
TL;DR: There has been increasing interest in adult attachment from both theoretical and empirical perspectives as discussed by the authors, in particular, individual differences, working models, and the role of attachment in adult life, and a review of the measures commonly used in the study of adult a ttachment follows.
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Romantic Love Conceptualized as an Attachment Process
Cindy Hazan,Phillip R. Shaver +1 more
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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Security in infancy, childhood, and adulthood: A move to the level of representation.
Abstract: We are grateful to the Institute of Human Development, Berkeley, and to the Society for Research in Child Development for funding that made the study of our sample at 6 years possible. In its earlier phases, the Social Development Project was supported by the William T. Grant Foundation, by the Alvin Nye Main Foundation, and by Bio-Medical Support Grants 1-444036-32024 and 1-444036-32025 for studies in the behavioral sciences. The Child Study Center at the University of California was invaluable in its provision of subjects and in the training provided for our observers and examiners. The National Center for Clinical Infancy Programs provided support and assistance to Nancy Kaplan. This project would not have been possible without the direction and assistance provided by Donna Weston and by Bonnie Powers, Jackie Stadtman, and Stewart Wakeling in its first phases. For the initial identification of infants who should be left unclassified-an identification critical to the present study-we gratefully acknowledge both Judith Solomon and Donna Weston. Carol George participated in the designing of the sixth-year project; Ruth Goldwyn served as adult interviewer; and Ellen Richardson served as the child's examiner. The videotapes and transcripts of the sixth-year study were analyzed by Jude Cassidy, Anitra DeMoss, Ruth Goldwyn, Nancy Kaplan, Todd Hirsch, Lorraine Littlejohn, Amy Strage, and Reggie Tiedemann. Mary Ainsworth, John Bowlby, Harriet Oster, and Amy Strage provided useful criticism of earlier versions of this chapter. The overall conceptualization was substantially enriched by suggestions made by Erik Hesse.
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Adult attachment, working models, and relationship quality in dating couples.
Nancy L. Collins,Stephen J. Read +1 more
TL;DR: Dimensions of attachment style were strongly related to how each partner perceived the relationship, although the dimension of attachment that best predicted quality differed for men and women.
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Attachment in late adolescence: working models, affect regulation, and representations of self and others.
R. Rogers Kobak,Amy Sceery +1 more
TL;DR: Different styles of affect regulation and representational bias associated with particular working models of attachment are interpreted in terms of different styles of distress, perceived competence, and social support.