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Internalized homonegativity moderates the association between attachment avoidance and emotional intimacy among same-sex male couples [PDF]

Frontiers in Psychology, 2023
IntroductionThe present study aimed to examine dyadic associations between attachment insecurity and emotional intimacy in same-sex male couples, and to investigate whether and how each partner’s internalized homonegativity (IH) moderated these ...
Mónica Guzmán-González, Fabiola Gomez, Joaquin Bahamondes   +2 more
exaly   +4 more sources

Measuring Patients’ Attachment Avoidance in Psychotherapy: Development of the Attachment Avoidance in Therapy Scale (AATS) [PDF]

Europe's Journal of Psychology, 2012
A new scale measuring patient-therapist attachment avoidance was developed. Attachment Avoidance in Therapy Scale is a new measure based on the Bartholomew model of adult attachment (Bartholomew & Horowitz, 1991) and the Experience in Close Relationships
András Láng, Bernadette Péley, Laura M. Barlay, László Bernáth   +3 more
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Gender Differences in Attachment Anxiety and Avoidance and Their Association with Psychotherapy Use—Examining Students from a German University

Behavioral Sciences (Basel, Switzerland), 2022
Attachment anxiety and avoidance might explain gender differences in psychotherapy use, which is generally lower in men. In addition, university students are a particularly vulnerable group for mental health problems, and understanding psychotherapy use,
Rainer Weber, Lukas Eggenberger, Christoph Stosch   +2 more
exaly   +3 more sources

Are one's attachment avoidance toward a particular person and his/her placement of this particular person in the attachment hierarchy inversely overlapping? Four bifactor-analysis studies. [PDF]

PLoS ONE, 2021
Do one's hierarchical preference for attachment support from a particular person over other people (attachment hierarchy) and his/her discomfort with closeness and uneasiness about being dependent on that particular person (attachment avoidance ...
Tomotaka Umemura, Aneta Siroňová, Lenka Lacinová, Emiko Taniguchi, Tatsuya Imai   +4 more
doaj   +2 more sources

Relationship between attachment anxiety and attachment avoidance, mentalization ability, and various digital addictions: a cross-sectional study among university students [PDF]

BMC Psychiatry
Background The increasing prevalence of digital media use has been accompanied by a rise in behavioral addictions, such as smartphone and social media addiction.
Lara Antonia Jasper, Henrik Bischoff, Christiane Eichenberg   +2 more
doaj   +2 more sources

Latent profiles of parental attachment styles and their associations with parenting behaviors among parents of school-aged children [PDF]

Frontiers in Psychology
This study utilized Latent Profile Analysis (LPA) to identify attachment style latent profiles among parents of school-aged children and examine their association with parenting behaviors.
Yali Wang, Xiaoshu Lin, Xinxin Zhang, Xiaoyun Ma, Ciqing Bao, Xiaofan Chen   +5 more
doaj   +2 more sources

Default defenses: the character defenses of attachment-anxiety and attachment-avoidance

Current Psychology, 2022
Abstract Contemporary attachment researchers claim that attachment-anxiety is associated with a hyperactivating defense strategy while attachment-avoidance is associated with a deactivating defense strategy. However, to date, no study has comprehensively examined the basic patterns of specific defense expression in the two dimensions of attachment ...
Emma Richardson, Alissa Beath, Simon Boag   +2 more
exaly   +2 more sources

The Relational Nature of Attachment and Power: Attachment Avoidance and Withdrawal Limit Partners' Power. [PDF]

Pers Soc Psychol Bull
Power emerges from the relational dynamics between two people, but it is often studied as a feature of the individual. The current studies apply a dyadic perspective to show that core relational beliefs not only shape actors’ relationship power but also generate behaviors that constrain their partner’s power.
Körner R, Overall NC, Chang VT, Hammond MD, Sasaki E, Schütz A, Zverling E.   +6 more
europepmc   +3 more sources

Self-inconsistency and attachment insecurity mediate and moderate the association between anxiety and reasons for living in Chinese college students [PDF]

Scientific Reports
Suicide remains a major public health concern, and reasons for living are an important protective factor against suicide risk. However, the processes through which anxiety relates to reasons for living are not well specified.
Lin Li, Xiaoyue Zhao, Xiaobin Ding
doaj   +2 more sources

Adult attachment and intimate relationship satisfaction among university students: the chain mediating roles of appreciation and sense of giving [PDF]

Frontiers in Psychiatry
BackgroundSatisfying intimate relationships are fundamental to young adults’ psychological well-being. Although adult attachment theory provides a robust framework for understanding relationship quality, the mechanisms linking higher attachment anxiety ...
Mengyuan Zhu, Jiang Tan, Zuli Zheng, Lifan Liang, Qing Li, Juanrong Wen, Zhixia Wang, Aimei Zhang, Gang Wu, Jiaoying Liu, Yanping Shu   +10 more
doaj   +2 more sources