Relationship Between Client Attachment Styles and the Working Alliance: A Meta-Analysis

2007 ◽  
Author(s):  
Melissa K. Smothers ◽  
D. Brian Smothers ◽  
Paul E. Priester
Keyword(s):  
Working Alliance ◽  
Attachment Styles ◽  
Meta Analysis

Therapist–client agreement about their working alliance: Associations with attachment styles.

2019 ◽  
Vol 66 (1) ◽  
pp. 83-93 ◽  
Author(s):  
Seini O'Connor ◽  
Dennis M. Kivlighan ◽  
Clara E. Hill ◽  
Charles J. Gelso
Keyword(s):  
Working Alliance ◽  
Attachment Styles

Meta-Analysis of the Third Session Client--Therapist Working Alliance

2006 ◽  
Author(s):  
Georgiana S. Tryon ◽  
Sasha M. Collins ◽  
Elizabeth Felleman
Keyword(s):  
Working Alliance ◽  
Meta Analysis ◽  
The Third

Emotional Intelligence and Attachment in Adulthood: A Meta-analysis

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sarah A Walker ◽  
Kit S Double ◽  
Hannah Kunst ◽  
Michael Zhang ◽  
Carolyn MacCann
Keyword(s):  
Emotional Intelligence ◽  
Attachment Styles ◽  
Rating Scales ◽  
Meta Analysis ◽  
Secure Attachment ◽  
Emotional Experiences ◽  
Anxious Attachment ◽  
Avoidant Attachment ◽  
Causal Direction ◽  
Meta Regression

Attachment styles form during childhood emotional experiences. These experiences may be shaped by emotion-related traits such as how children interpret and regulate their own and others' emotions. These emotion-related traits appear in many emotional intelligence (EI) models, such that EI may relate to attachment styles. We conduct a meta-analysis to estimate the association between EI and attachment styles (26 studies, N = 6914). We include only non-clinical adult samples and validated psychometric assessments. We examine EI type as a moderator, comparing ability EI versus EI rating-scales using subgroups analysis and meta-regression. We find that lower anxious attachment is significantly associated with EI rating-scales (r = −0.25, k = 26) and ability EI (r = −0.16, k = 45), lower avoidant attachment is significantly associated with EI rating-scales (r = −0.36, k = 21) and ability EI (r = −0.21, k = 40), but secure attachment is significantly associated with EI rating-scales only (r = 0.31, k = 30). EI type significantly moderated the EI/avoidant attachment association only (β = −0.14, p = .01). We discuss possible mechanisms by which EI could influence early development of attachment styles (and vice-versa) while acknowledging that the causal direction underlying EI/attachment associations is unclear.

The relationship between working alliance and client outcomes in coaching: A meta-analysis

2019 ◽  
Vol 73 (1) ◽  
pp. 35-58 ◽  
Author(s):  
Carolin Graßmann ◽  
Franziska Schölmerich ◽  
Carsten C Schermuly
Keyword(s):  
Working Alliance ◽  
Meta Analysis ◽  
Cognitive Coaching ◽  
Client Outcomes ◽  
Negative Effects ◽  
High Quality ◽  
Helping Relationships ◽  
Key Factor ◽  
Coaching Outcomes ◽  
The Relationship

A growing number of studies emphasize the working alliance between the client and the coach to be a key factor in coaching. Synthesizing 27 samples ( N = 3563 coaching processes), this meta-analysis sheds light on the relationship between working alliance and a broad range of coaching outcomes for clients. The meta-analytic results indicate a moderate and consistent overall relationship between a high-quality working alliance and coaching outcomes for clients ( r = .41, 95% CI [.34, .48], p < .001). Working alliance was positively related to all desirable coaching outcomes (range: r = .32 to .64), with the strongest relationship to affective and cognitive coaching outcomes. Moreover, working alliance was negatively related to unintended negative effects of coaching ( r = –.29). Results revealed no differences regarding the type of clients, coaches’ expertise, number of coaching sessions, and clients’ or coaches’ perspectives. Similar to other helping relationships like psychotherapy or mentoring, the results support the importance of a high-quality working alliance in coaching.

scholarly journals Model of the Relationships between Supervising Working Alliance, Counseling Self-Esteem and Attachment Styles

2019 ◽  
Vol 13 (1) ◽  
pp. 124
Author(s):  
Ahmad Al- Shraifin
Keyword(s):  
Working Alliance ◽  
Attachment Style ◽  
Attachment Styles ◽  
Direct Relationship ◽  
Counseling Students ◽  
Self Esteem ◽  
Secure Attachment ◽  
Avoidant Attachment ◽  
Indirect Relationship ◽  
The Relationship

The study aimed to explore the causal relationships between supervising working alliance, counseling self-esteem and attachment styles through a causal model adopting a path analysis method. The study sample consisted of 289 counseling students at Yarmouk University. Three scales were administered to measure the supervising working alliance, self-esteem and attachment styles.  Results showed a direct relationship between avoidant attachment styles and supervising working alliance, and an indirect relationship with counseling self-esteem. There was a direct relationship between secure attachment style, supervising working alliance and counseling self-esteem; and between supervising working alliance and counseling self-esteem.  In addition, direct and indirect relationships were evident between avoidant attachment style and special relationship domain of supervising working alliance and counseling self-esteem; whereas it affected client focus domain with a direct relationship. Direct relationships also were evident between secure attachment styles, the relationship domain and self-focus domain.  

Patients’ crying experiences in psychotherapy and relationship with working alliance, therapeutic change and attachment styles.

Psychotherapy ◽  
2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Federica Genova ◽  
Pietro Zingaretti ◽  
Francesco Gazzillo ◽  
Annalisa Tanzilli ◽  
Vittorio Lingiardi ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Working Alliance ◽  
Attachment Styles ◽  
Therapeutic Change

Emotional Intelligence and Attachment in Adulthood: A Meta-analysis

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sarah A Walker ◽  
Kit S Double ◽  
Hannah Kunst ◽  
Michael Zhang ◽  
Carolyn MacCann
Keyword(s):  
Emotional Intelligence ◽  
Attachment Styles ◽  
Rating Scales ◽  
Meta Analysis ◽  
Secure Attachment ◽  
Emotional Experiences ◽  
Anxious Attachment ◽  
Avoidant Attachment ◽  
Causal Direction ◽  
Meta Regression

Attachment styles form during childhood emotional experiences. These experiences may be shaped by emotion-related traits such as how children interpret and regulate their own and others' emotions. These emotion-related traits appear in many emotional intelligence (EI) models, such that EI may relate to attachment styles. We conduct a meta-analysis to estimate the association between EI and attachment styles (26 studies, N = 6914). We include only non-clinical adult samples and validated psychometric assessments. We examine EI type as a moderator, comparing ability EI versus EI rating-scales using subgroups analysis and meta-regression. We find that lower anxious attachment is significantly associated with EI rating-scales (r = −0.25, k = 26) and ability EI (r = −0.16, k = 45), lower avoidant attachment is significantly associated with EI rating-scales (r = −0.36, k = 21) and ability EI (r = −0.21, k = 40), but secure attachment is significantly associated with EI rating-scales only (r = 0.31, k = 30). EI type significantly moderated the EI/avoidant attachment association only (β = −0.14, p = .01). We discuss possible mechanisms by which EI could influence early development of attachment styles (and vice-versa) while acknowledging that the causal direction underlying EI/attachment associations is unclear.

Client and Therapist Attachment Styles and Working Alliance

2015 ◽  
Vol 23 (2) ◽  
pp. 155-165 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sandra Bucci ◽  
Annily Seymour-Hyde ◽  
Alison Harris ◽  
Katherine Berry
Keyword(s):  
Working Alliance ◽  
Attachment Styles
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