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Adult Attachment and Declining Birthrates
Psychological Reports, 2007Attachment scores for 658 young adults living in the USA were obtained using the Experiences in Close Relationships scale. The participants came from a subsample of the RELATE data set, who had also filled out the adult attachment measure. Those young adults living in Utah County, Utah, an area of the country with a higher than normal birthrate (88 ...
Thomas W, Draper +3 more
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Comparative validity of the Adult Attachment Interview and the Adult Attachment Projective
Attachment & Human Development, 2015The Adult Attachment Interview (AAI) and the Adult Attachment Projective (AAP) purport to measure the same attachment classifications. The aims of this study were to determine the concurrent validity of the AAI and AAP, and to compare their ability to predict indicators of risk associated with socioeconomic status (SES), depression, and 5-HTTLPR ...
Karen, Jones-Mason +3 more
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Personality and Attachment in Transsexual Adults
Archives of Sexual Behavior, 2017The main aim of this study was to investigate the associations between personality features and attachment patterns in transsexual adults. We explored mental representations of attachment, assessed personality traits, and possible personality disorders.
LINGIARDI, Vittorio +4 more
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Adult Attachment, Culturally Adjusted Attachment, and Interpersonal Difficulties of Taiwanese Adults
The Counseling Psychologist, 2009This study examines the applicability of Western adult attachment perspectives to interpersonal difficulties experienced by individuals with indigenous Chinese cultural backgrounds. A total of 275 Taiwanese university students completed self-report surveys of adult attachment, ideal attachment, and interpersonal problems.
Chia-Chih DC Wang, Dominick A. Scalise
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Childhood Attachment and Adult Attachment in Incarcerated Adult Male Sex Offenders
Journal of Interpersonal Violence, 1998Forty-eight incarcerated sex offenders were compared with 16 property offenders and 16 nonoffenders on self-report measures of childhood maternal and paternal attachment and adult attachment. The combined sex-offender groups reported significantly less secure maternal, paternal, and adult attachment than did the nonoffenders and significantly less ...
STEPHEN W. SMALLBONE, MARK R. DADDS
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Attachment, ethology and adult psychotherapy
Attachment & Human Development, 2004This article discusses Bowlby's development of an ethological-evolutionary perspective, and its implications for psychotherapy with adults. According to Bowlby, attachment behavior is instinctive, having emerged throughout the course of evolution to ensure protection and actual survival.
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INFLUENCES OF ADULT ATTACHMENT IN EXPLORATION
Psychological Reports, 1999Research into the relationship between attachment quality in both children and adults suggests links with patterns of exploration; however, exploration has been operationalized differently in studies of adults and children. This study examined adults' patterns of exploration operationalized in terms of novelty seeking, curiosity, and impulsivity, as ...
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Adult Attachment and Compassion
2017According to attachment theory (Bowlby, 1973, 1982), the optimal functioning of the attachment behavioral system and the resulting sense of security in dealing with life’s challenges and difficulties facilitate the functioning of other behavioral systems, including the caregiving system that governs the activation of prosocial behavior and ...
Mario Mikulincer, Phillip R. Shaver
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Clinical Social Work Journal, 2007
This paper explores the concept of adult attachment. Although attachment theory is now getting a great deal of attention, there is not yet a clear picture of what it means to be attached in adulthood or what the clinical applications of the approach might be.
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This paper explores the concept of adult attachment. Although attachment theory is now getting a great deal of attention, there is not yet a clear picture of what it means to be attached in adulthood or what the clinical applications of the approach might be.
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