Attachment–style Differences in the Appraisal of the Attachment Figure

2011 ◽  
Vol 25 (3) ◽  
pp. 173-183 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marieke Dewitte ◽  
Jan De Houwer
Keyword(s):  
Attachment Style ◽  
Attachment Styles ◽  
Negative Evaluation ◽  
Affective Priming ◽  
Cognitive Inhibition ◽  
Secure Attachment ◽  
Anxious Attachment ◽  
Attachment Figure ◽  
Specific Attachment

The present study investigated the distinctive effects of global and specific attachment styles on the processing of attachment–figure cues, focusing specifically on the role of cognitive inhibition. We manipulated the temporal accessibility of specific attachment styles and measured automatic inhibitory processes using a negative affective priming (NAP) task presenting positive and negative words. We also measured one's explicit attitude towards the attachment figure. Results showed that specific, but not global, attachment styles influenced the processing of attachment–figure cues. We also found that participants primed with a secure attachment style showed a better inhibition of negative traits than those primed with an insecure style. At the explicit level, the anxious attachment types showed a more negative evaluation of their attachment figure than primed secures. Copyright © 2010 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

scholarly journals The role of cognitive schemas in the relationship between attachment style and emotional intelligence

2021 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
pp. 54-69
Author(s):  
Elena Morena Scarlat
Keyword(s):  
Emotional Intelligence ◽  
Attachment Style ◽  
Attachment Styles ◽  
Cognitive Schemas ◽  
Secure Attachment ◽  
Anxious Attachment ◽  
Avoidant Attachment ◽  
The Individual ◽  
The Relationship

The current study focuses on the idea that the relationship between attachment styles and emotional intelligence can be influenced by cognitive schemas. It is well known that the first interaction between the child and his mother lays the foundations of attachment. The extent to which it develops guides the individual throughout his life making him responsible for his own actions and decisions. In this way studying the three variables becomes the main objective of the study. The data were collected on an online form, using the snowball method by which subjects were able to share the questionnaire to acquaintances to gather a larger number of people. The study was attended by 281 people aged between 18 to 40 years, M = 21.98, SD = 4.10, of which, 52 were males (18.50%) and 229 females (81.50%), 134 were single (47.69%) and 147 were in a relationship (52.31%), 48 people come from single-parent families (17.08%) and 233 come from two-parent families (82.92%). The results were as expected, secure attachment constitutes a significant positive predictor of emotional intelligence while the anxious attachment was a significant negative predictor of emotional intelligence. The results also showed that avoidant attachment would be a significant positive predictor of emotional intelligence. Following the results it was observed that there is a mediation between cognitive schema and the relationship between attachment styles and emotional intelligence. The secure attachment style was significantly negatively associated with all three types of schemas as expected.

scholarly journals Individual Differences in Work-Related Well-Being: The Role of Attachment Style

2014 ◽  
Vol 10 (4) ◽  
pp. 694-711
Author(s):  
Tiziana Lanciano ◽  
Vanda Lucia Zammuner
Keyword(s):  
Job Satisfaction ◽  
Attachment Style ◽  
Adult Attachment ◽  
Attachment Styles ◽  
Job Involvement ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Anxious Attachment ◽  
Work Related ◽  
Dispositional Trait

Integrating theories of adult attachment and well-being at the workplace, the present study tested the role of attachment style in predicting work-related well-being in terms of job satisfaction and job involvement, over and above dispositional trait measures (emotional traits and work-related traits). A sample of workers took part in a correlational study that explored the relationships among a) adult attachment, b) emotional traits, c) work-related traits, and d) work-related well-being indices. The results showed that both secure and anxious attachment style explained workers’ job involvement, whereas the secure and avoidant attachment styles explained workers’ job satisfaction. The current findings thus confirm and expand the literature's emphasis on studying the variables and processes that underlie people's mental health in the work setting, and have implications for assessing and promoting well-being in the workplace.

Style przywiązania kształtowane w rodzinie i ich wpływ na rozwój emocjonalny dziecka

2018 ◽  
Vol 12(2)2018 (12(2)2018) ◽  
pp. 109-125
Author(s):  
Katarzyna Potaczała- Perz
Keyword(s):  
Early Childhood ◽  
Attachment Style ◽  
Emotional Development ◽  
Attachment Styles ◽  
Secure Attachment ◽  
Sense Of Security ◽  
Childhood Attachment ◽  
The Family ◽  
Mother Figure

The article concerns the aspect of early childhood attachment that takes place in a dyad between a child and its primary caregiver, most often its mother. A substantial role of the "mother figure" in the process of shaping the bond has been emphasized, especially her availability, readiness and openness to respond to signals sent by the child. The article presents four attachment styles that are shaped in the family and have a significant impact on a child's emotional development. The most common and most beneficial for a child is the secure attachment style, in which the idea of a mother as a "safe base" shapes the sense of security and trust. Unfortunately, there are families in which non-safe attachment styles are formed: anxious-ambivalent style, avoidant style and disorganized style. Each of them adversely affects a child's development and its subsequent functioning among other people. And it would seem that so little is needed to build a trustful relationship with a child. Just to be there. Just to love. Just to recognize the child's needs and adequately react to them.

The role of intelligence in the relationship between attachment styles and cognitive schemas in psychotherapists

2019 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
pp. 90-101
Author(s):  
Virginia Corduneanu
Keyword(s):  
Attachment Style ◽  
Personal Development ◽  
Attachment Styles ◽  
Short Form ◽  
Cognitive Schemas ◽  
Anxious Attachment ◽  
Psychoeducational Programs ◽  
Attachment Style Questionnaire ◽  
The Relationship

The present study aims to analyze the relationships between attachment styles (avoidant and anxious) and cognitive schemas and also the role of intelligence in this relationship. The participants of the study were 62 psychologists or future psychologists aged between 23 and 51 years, M = 34.38, SD = 7.18. Of these, 12 were psychology students, 54 were autonomous psychologists, and two were experimented psychologists. Four of the participants were men, and 68 were women. As for marital status, 23 were unmarried, 19 were in a relationship, and 30 were married. The instruments used were The Attachment Style Questionnaire, ASQ (α = .94), Young Cognitive Schema Questionnaire - Short Form, YSQ-S3 (α = .98), and Analogical Transfer Test (CAS++) for the measurement of intelligence. The results showed that avoidant and anxious attachment styles are positively associated with the development of maladaptive cognitive schemas in all the five domains. Intelligence does not moderate the relationship between attachment styles and cognitive schemas. In the personal development of psychologists and psychotherapists, it is necessary to augment maladaptive cognitive schemas through specific psychoeducational programs. Further studies are needed to identify other factors that may be involved in the development of cognitive schemas.

Memorializing on the World Wide Web: Patterns of Grief and Attachment in Adult Daughters of Deceased Mothers

2004 ◽  
Vol 49 (1) ◽  
pp. 43-56 ◽  
Author(s):  
Elizabeth A. Nager ◽  
Brian de Vries
Keyword(s):  
World Wide Web ◽  
Attachment Style ◽  
Web Sites ◽  
Attachment Styles ◽  
World Wide ◽  
Adult Daughters ◽  
Secure Attachment ◽  
The World ◽  
Questionnaire Online

The World Wide Web is emerging as the new site for mourners. Many bereaved persons are creating memorial Web sites for deceased loved ones, providing text-based representations of what they have lost with frequent reference to the nature of their grief. The primary purpose of this study was to measure elements of attachment style and grief as shown by the adult daughters who had placed memorials on the Internet for their deceased mothers. Participants self-selected and were solicited and completed a questionnaire online. In addition, the 24 available Web sites were content coded for textual themes and presentational styles. Fifty-nine memorial authors responded to measures of attachment style, grief, and characteristics of the memorial they created. Results revealed a lower frequency of secure attachment styles than would be expected and higher levels of grief. Prominent among the themes expressed in these memorials were missing the deceased, narratives and letters to the deceased, comments about the deceased watching over the bereft, and other references to the self. Although smaller numbers precluded statistical analyses, several evocative attachment style differences in the use of these themes were suggested. These findings contribute to the understanding of the complex relationship between adult daughters and their deceased mothers and the potential role of attachment in the ways in which such relationships are characterized and memorialized.

Attachment anxiety in mentoring: the role of commitment

2015 ◽  
Vol 20 (2) ◽  
pp. 119-132 ◽  
Author(s):  
Laura F. Poteat ◽  
Kristen M. Shockley ◽  
Tammy D. Allen
Keyword(s):  
Attachment Style ◽  
Attachment Styles ◽  
Attachment Anxiety ◽  
Mentoring Relationships ◽  
Anxious Attachment ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Mediating Role ◽  
Academic Mentoring ◽  
The Relationship

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to examine the mediating role of commitment in the relationship between protégés’ anxious attachment styles and feedback behaviors of both mentors and protégés. Design/methodology/approach – Data were collected from 100 academic protégé-mentor dyads, and reports from both members of the mentoring relationships were used to test hypotheses. Findings – The results suggested that protégé perceptions of mentor commitment and self-reported protégé commitment mediated the relationships between protégé anxious attachment style and protégé feedback seeking and feedback acceptance. Additionally, mentor perceptions of protégé commitment played an important role, mediating the relationships between protégé anxious attachment and quality and quantity of mentor feedback. Research limitations/implications – Taken together, the results reveal the important role of perceptions of partner commitment in high-quality mentoring behaviors. Originality/value – This study was among the first to examine feedback and commitment in academic mentoring relationships, particularly taking into account commitment of each member of the dyad as well as their perceptions of the other person’s commitment.

scholarly journals Mentalization within close relationships: The role of specific attachment style

2015 ◽  
Vol 46 (2) ◽  
pp. 285-299 ◽  
Author(s):  
Błażej M. Bączkowski ◽  
Lidia Cierpiałkowska
Keyword(s):  
Attachment Style ◽  
Perspective Taking ◽  
Attachment Styles ◽  
Mental States ◽  
Attachment Avoidance ◽  
Attachment Quality ◽  
Specific Attachment ◽  
Eyes Task ◽  
The Mind

AbstractMentalization is a form of social cognition that enables to perceive and interpret human behaviour in terms of intentional mental states (Frith & Frith, 2003) and is influenced by social context (e.g., O’Connor and Hirsch, 1999). Hence, we examined mentalization related to specific attachment relationships (Bowlby, 1969; Fraley, 2007). This study involved 115 participants (85% female) who reported their relationship-specific (ECR-RS; Fraley et al., 2011) and global attachment styles (ECR; Brennan, Clark, Shaver, 1998), and perspective-taking tendency towards their attachment figures (IRI-PT subscale; Davis, 1983). Reading the Mind in the Eyes Task-Revised (Baron-Cohen et al., 2001) was used as a proxy for mentalization disregarding relationships. The results showed that perspective-taking was associated with relationship-specific attachment avoidance (rs > -.29; all ps < .01) whereas global characteristics of mentalization were not related to attachment quality. Our findings indicate that the link between attachment quality and mentalization is relationship-specific.

Intimate Partner Violence: The Role of Attachment on Men’s Anger

Partner Abuse ◽  
2014 ◽  
Vol 5 (4) ◽  
pp. 375-387 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andrée-Anne Genest ◽  
Cynthia Mathieu
Keyword(s):  
Intimate Partner Violence ◽  
Attachment Style ◽  
Partner Violence ◽  
Attachment Styles ◽  
Intimate Partner ◽  
Self Report ◽  
Anxious Attachment ◽  
Factors Influencing ◽  
Violent Men

Previous research has identified men’s level of anger as one of the predictors of intimate partner violence (IPV). However, few studies have tried to empirically explore the underlying factors influencing anger in men who perpetrate IPV. Objective: The purpose of this study is to identify the contribution of attachment style to the level of anger experienced by men perpetrators of IPV. Method: Eighty men enrolled in IPV therapy completed self-report questionnaires of attachment and anger. Result: Multiple regressions revealed that avoidant and anxious attachment styles had a significant influence in explaining anger in violent men. Conclusion: These findings indicate the importance of considering attachment style in the understanding and treatment of anger in IPV perpetrators.

scholarly journals The role of intelligence in the relationship between attachment styles and cognitive schemas in psychotherapists

2019 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
pp. 90-101
Author(s):  
Virginia Corduneanu
Keyword(s):  
Attachment Style ◽  
Personal Development ◽  
Attachment Styles ◽  
Short Form ◽  
Cognitive Schemas ◽  
Anxious Attachment ◽  
Psychoeducational Programs ◽  
Attachment Style Questionnaire ◽  
The Relationship

The present study aims to analyze the relationships between attachment styles (avoidant and anxious) and cognitive schemas and also the role of intelligence in this relationship. The participants of the study were 62 psychologists or future psychologists aged between 23 and 51 years, M = 34.38, SD = 7.18. Of these, 12 were psychology students, 54 were autonomous psychologists, and two were experimented psychologists. Four of the participants were men, and 68 were women. As for marital status, 23 were unmarried, 19 were in a relationship, and 30 were married. The instruments used were The Attachment Style Questionnaire, ASQ (α = .94), Young Cognitive Schema Questionnaire - Short Form, YSQ-S3 (α = .98), and Analogical Transfer Test (CAS++) for the measurement of intelligence. The results showed that avoidant and anxious attachment styles are positively associated with the development of maladaptive cognitive schemas in all the five domains. Intelligence does not moderate the relationship between attachment styles and cognitive schemas. In the personal development of psychologists and psychotherapists, it is necessary to augment maladaptive cognitive schemas through specific psychoeducational programs. Further studies are needed to identify other factors that may be involved in the development of cognitive schemas.

scholarly journals Attachment style and leader-member exchange

2017 ◽  
Vol 38 (3) ◽  
pp. 450-462 ◽  
Author(s):  
John M. Maslyn ◽  
Birgit Schyns ◽  
Steven M. Farmer
Keyword(s):  
Attachment Style ◽  
Attachment Styles ◽  
Leader Member Exchange ◽  
Secure Attachment ◽  
High Quality ◽  
Anxious Attachment ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Member Exchange ◽  
Development Processes ◽  
Conducive Environment

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to examine psychological attachment styles (secure, anxious, and avoidant) as antecedents to leader-member exchange (LMX) quality both directly and through their impact on employees’ efforts to build high quality LMX relationships. Employees with secure attachment styles are proposed to be successful at building high quality LMX relationships while employees with anxious and avoidant styles are proposed to display the opposite effect. Design/methodology/approach Data were collected through a survey of 213 employees nested in 37 work groups. Hypotheses were tested using multilevel modeling within MPlus. Findings Results indicated that secure and anxious attachment styles were associated with LMX only by impacting the exertion of effort specifically aimed at relationship development with the manager. Alternatively, the avoidant style was directly and negatively linked to LMX but not associated with effort undertaken to build a high quality relationship. Practical implications The effects of attachment style on effort to develop high quality LMX relationships reveal that subordinate attachment style may impact those subordinates’ ability and interest in developing positive LMX relationships. Therefore, managers may need to purposively deviate from typical LMX development processes in order to create a more conducive environment for developing high quality relationships with subordinates of differing attachment styles. Originality/value This study is one of the first to examine the mediating impact of effort to build high quality LMX relationships given personal propensities (attachment style) to form relationships in the workplace.

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