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Object attachment and emotions in hoarding disorder [PDF]
Comprehensive Psychiatry, 2020 Background and aims: Object attachment is a core feature of hoarding disorder (HD), but it also occurs in people without HD. It is therefore critical to clarify differences between normal and abnormal object attachment.
Keong Yap, Jessica R. Grisham
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Object attachment as we grow older [PDF]
Current Opinion in Psychology, 2020 Extreme object attachment in adults can form as a way to compensate for a lack of interpersonal attachment or as a symptom of hoarding disorder; however, normative levels of object attachment also exist across the lifespan.
Mary E. Dozier, Catherine R. Ayers
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Redefining object attachment: Development and validation of a new scale [PDF]
Journal of Behavioral Addictions, 2022 Background and aims: Object attachment is the emotional bond or connection that we have with possessions. Although thought to be ubiquitous, when excessive, object attachment is presumed to contribute to compulsive buying and hoarding problems ...
Jonathan David, Melissa M. Norberg
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Attachment to Inanimate Objects and Early Childcare: A Twin Study [PDF]
Frontiers in Psychology, 2014 Extensive nonmaternal childcare plays an important role in children's development. This study examined a potential coping mechanism for dealing with daily separation from caregivers involved in childcare experience—children's development of attachments ...
Keren eFortuna +4 more
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The object of my affection: attachment security and material culture [PDF]
Time and Mind, 2018 Archaeological research into how objects affect us emotionally is still in its infancy, with our affiliative responses to objects - those related to socially close and harmonious relationships - being particularly understudied. Psychological research has
Taryn Bell, Penny Spikins
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Object attachment and the critical period [PDF]
Psychonomic Science, 1967 Well past normally accepted critical periods, social isolation and darkness appear to contribute to the process that leads to a bird-object attachment.
David Asdourian
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Relationship between the Social Cognition and Object Relations Scale (SCORS) and attachment style in a clinical sample [PDF]
, 2010 This present study examined the relationship between the Social Cognition and Object Relations Scale (SCORS) and two measures of adult attachment: the Relationship Questionnaire (RQ) and the Experiences in Close Relationships Questionnaire‐Revised (ECR‐R)
Michelle B. Stein +3 more
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An online experimental test of the compensatory process in hoarding disorder: reducing loneliness and its effects on object attachment [PDF]
Attachment theory suggests that strong object attachment in hoarding disorder (HD) may be due to an attempt at compensating for unmet relatedness needs.
Keong Yap +3 more
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Object attachment in buying-shopping disorder
Current Opinion in Psychology, 2020 Buying-shopping disorder (BSD) is considered a behavioral addiction that is characterized by poorly controlled spending of money for consumer goods in unnecessary quantities, beyond budget and without necessarily utilizing them for their intended purposes. Little is known about the role of emotional attachment to the purchased products in BSD.
Astrid Müller +2 more
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A psychological ownership approach to designing object attachment [PDF]
Journal of Engineering Design, 2015 The mental state in which an individual claims an object as theirs is called psychological ownership. Psychological ownership is associated with motives, routes, affordances, and outcomes directly linked to attachment. This research introduces psychological ownership in the context of designing object attachment and identifies affordance principles ...
Weston Baxter +2 more
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