Object attachment as we grow older. [PDF]
Curr Opin Psychol, 2021 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. Although the importance of secure interpersonal attachment as a protective factor for older adults has been well established ...
Dozier ME, Ayers CR.
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Object attachment and emotions in hoarding disorder
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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Exploring the Relationship Between Transitional Object Attachment and Emotion Regulation in College Students. [PDF]
Healthcare (Basel)Background/Objectives: Transitional attachment objects, such as blankets, play a critical role in childhood by helping children manage separation anxiety and regulate emotions.
Ko CH, Liang YT, Liao YC, Chen HF.
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Determinants of object choice and object attachment: Compensatory consumption in compulsive buying-shopping disorder and hoarding disorder. [PDF]
J Behav Addict, 2020 Background and aims Individuals who meet criteria for compulsive buying–shopping disorder (i.e., acquiring problems only) or hoarding disorder (i.e., acquiring and discarding problems) may acquire possessions to compensate for unmet belonging needs, but ...
Norberg MM +6 more
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Object attachment: Humanness increases sentimental and instrumental values. [PDF]
J Behav Addict, 2018 Background and aims People who hoard form intense attachments to their possessions and save items for sentimental and instrumental reasons. Feeling socially excluded may encourage these individuals to anthropomorphize objects (i.e., perceive them as human-like) to fulfill unmet belonging needs, which may increase the sentimental ...
Kwok C, Grisham JR, Norberg MM.
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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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Redefining object attachment: Development and validation of a new scale. [PDF]
J Behav Addict, 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 ...
David J, Norberg MM.
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The object of my affection : Attachment security and material culture [PDF]
, 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
Bell, Taryn, Spikins, Penny
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Object attachment in buying-shopping disorder
Current Opinion in Psychology, 2021 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.
Mueller, Astrid +2 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]
Current PsychologyAttachment 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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