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Avoiding affection, avoiding altruism: Why is avoidant attachment related to less helping?

Personality and Individual Differences, 2015
Avoidantly, compared to securely, attached people help less often and perceive the costs of helping as more severe. Helping relates to empathy and closeness, which may cause avoidantly attached people discomfort. We tested the hypothesis that reducing the potential for emotional closeness for avoidantly attached people would offset their unhelpfulness ...
Stephanie B. Richman, C. Nathan DeWall, Michelle N. Wolff   +2 more
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Avoidant attachment transmission to offspring in families with a depressed parent

Journal of Affective Disorders, 2023
Insecure attachment is associated with mental health morbidity. We explored associations between parent and offspring attachment style in a longitudinal study of families with a depressed parent.Parents (N = 169) with a DSM-IV mood disorder and their adult offspring (N = 267), completed the Adult Attachment Questionnaire at one or more time points ...
Robert A, Tumasian, Hanga C, Galfalvy, Meghan R, Enslow, David A, Brent, Nadine, Melhem, Ainsley K, Burke, J John, Mann, Michael F, Grunebaum   +7 more
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A latent profile analysis of romantic attachment anxiety and avoidance

Journal of Marital and Family Therapy, 2021
AbstractWe conducted latent profile analyses on community (n = 1663) and clinical (n = 575) samples to determine whether continuous scores of attachment anxiety and avoidance would lead to the identification of theoretically consistent and clinically useful profiles.
Marie‐Pier Vaillancourt‐Morel, Chloé Labadie, Véronique Charbonneau‐Lefebvre PhD candidate, Stéphane Sabourin, Natacha Godbout   +4 more
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Avoidant attachment style and conspiracy ideation

Personality and Individual Differences, 2018
Abstract Believing in conspiracy theories is a common phenomenon that is attracting attention from the scientific community because of its important individual- and social-level implications. Here we examine the association between attachment styles and conspiracy ideation.
Leone, Luigi, Giacomantonio, Mauro, Williams, Riccardo, Michetti, Desirée   +3 more
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Avoidance of Intimacy: An Attachment Perspective

Journal of Social and Personal Relationships, 1990
A basic principle of attachment theory is that early attachment relationships with caregivers provide the prototype for later social relations. Working within an attachment framework, a new 4-group model of characteristic attachment styles in adulthood is proposed.
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Examining Attachment Avoidance and Attachment Anxiety Across Eight Sessions of Couple Therapy

Journal of Marital and Family Therapy, 2015
This study examined initial levels of attachment anxiety and avoidance, as well as their patterns of change, across eight sessions of couple therapy. Participants were 461 couples in a treatment‐as‐usual setting. Dyadic latent growth modeling was used to determine whether couples started therapy at similar levels of attachment anxiety and avoidance and
Lee N, Johnson, Rachel B, Tambling, Kayla D, Mennenga, Scott A, Ketring, Megan, Oka, Shayne R, Anderson, Scott C, Huff, Richard B, Miller   +7 more
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The Role of Attachment Anxiety and Attachment Avoidance on the Psychosocial Well-being of Infertile Couples

Journal of Clinical Psychology in Medical Settings, 2017
This study's objective was to explore the mediating role of attachment orientation in infertile women and their partners as a mediator of the relationship between need for parenthood and psychosocial well-being. Ninety participants (45 couples) undergoing in vitro fertilization completed self-report questionnaires that assessed representations of the ...
M. Moura-Ramos, T. Almeida Santos, M. C. Canavarro   +2 more
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Twofold trauma exposure – the dual function of attachment avoidance

Attachment & Human Development, 2018
Spouses of traumatized war veterans might suffer from distress following indirect exposure to combat and direct exposure to domestic abuse. Yet the effect of this twofold trauma exposure is far from being fully understood. Theory views attachment security as a personal resource mitigating adversity, whereas attachment insecurities intensify distress ...
Yael, Lahav, Alana, Siegel, Zahava, Solomon   +2 more
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Experienced therapists’ approach to psychotherapy for adults with attachment avoidance or attachment anxiety.

Journal of Counseling Psychology, 2009
Interviews were conducted with therapists (N 12) nominated by peers as especially effective in working with clients with adult interpersonal problems. Open-ended questions asked how these therapists would approach 2 adult clients described in brief vignettes as having high attachment avoidance or anxiety.
Katherine D. Daly, Brent Mallinckrodt
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Avoidance behavior, attachment and motivational conflict

Early Child Development and Care, 1993
In this brief paper I will try to show how ethological approaches can be part of an approach to understanding some disturbed behavior in early childhood. I also shall suggest that there might be more useful ways of classifying children's disturbed behavior using these approaches (rather than the present psychiatric categories) which would improve ...
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