Attachment anxiety and avoidance predict postnatal partner support through impaired affective communication

Attachment Styles, Negotiation of Goal Conflict, and Perceived Partner Support During COVID-19

10.31234/osf.io/p529w ◽

2020 ◽

Author(s):

Laura Marika Vowels ◽

Katherine Carnelley

Keyword(s):

Attachment Styles ◽

Daily Diary ◽

Goal Pursuit ◽

Attachment Anxiety ◽

Partner Support ◽

Goal Conflict ◽

Multiple Sources ◽

Attachment Avoidance ◽

Sources Of Support ◽

The Relationship

Due to the pandemic, people have been stuck indoors with their partners for months. Instead of being able to rely on multiple sources of support, many couples have to rely on each other more. We investigated whether goal conflict, successful negotiation of the conflict, and individual differences in attachment styles were associated with partner support to understand factors that may enable or hinder goal pursuit during the pandemic. Participants (n=200) completed a daily diary for a week and weekly longitudinal reports for five weeks. Results showed that higher goal conflict was associated with perception of less relational catalyst (RC) support and more anti-RC support from partner, whereas more successful negotiation of goal conflict was associated with higher RC support and lower anti-RC support. Negotiation of goal conflict also partially mediated the association between goal conflict and support. Attachment avoidance was directly associated with less support whereas attachment anxiety moderated the relationship between goal conflict and support. Implications for partner support during the pandemic are discussed.

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How Do Partner Support, Psychological Aggression, and Attachment Anxiety Contribute to Distressed Couples’ Relationship Outcomes?

Journal of Sex & Marital Therapy ◽

10.1080/0092623x.2021.1972064 ◽

2021 ◽

pp. 1-21

Author(s):

Thalie Labonté ◽

Caroline Dugal ◽

Marie-France Lafontaine ◽

Audrey Brassard ◽

Katherine Péloquin

Keyword(s):

Attachment Anxiety ◽

Partner Support ◽

Psychological Aggression ◽

Relationship Outcomes

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The Relationship Between Texture Responses on the Rorschach and Adult Attachment

Rorschachiana Journal of the International Society for the Rorschach ◽

10.1027/1192-5604/a000002 ◽

2010 ◽

Vol 31 (1) ◽

pp. 4-21 ◽

Cited By ~ 5

Author(s):

Kazunori Iwasa ◽

Toshiki Ogawa

Keyword(s):

Graduate Students ◽

Adult Attachment ◽

Japanese Population ◽

Attachment Anxiety ◽

Anxiety Scale ◽

Self Report ◽

Comprehensive System ◽

Attachment Avoidance ◽

Sensitive Measure ◽

The Relationship

We examined the relationship between texture responses (T) on the Rorschach and adult attachment in the Japanese population. 47 Japanese undergraduate and graduate students (mean age = 20.16, SD = 1.87) completed a self-report adult attachment scale as well as the Rorschach. An ANOVA revealed that T = 1 participants were attached more securely than were other groups. T > 1 participants were more preoccupied with attachment and scored higher on an attachment anxiety scale than the T = 1 group. Although these results were consistent with the interpretation of the texture response according to the Comprehensive System (CS), the results obtained for T = 0 participants were inconsistent with hypotheses derived from the CS. T = 0 participants were high on preoccupied and attachment anxiety scores, although they were theoretically expected to be high on dismissing or attachment avoidance. These results indicated that – at least in Japan – T should be regarded as a sensitive measure of attachment anxiety.

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Attachment Anxiety Mitigates the Well-Being Costs of Object Attachment

Journal of Individual Differences ◽

10.1027/1614-0001/a000328 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 42 (1) ◽

pp. 41-56

Author(s):

Lucas A. Keefer ◽

Zachary K. Rothschild

Keyword(s):

Past Research ◽

Well Being ◽

Attachment Anxiety ◽

Current Paper ◽

Personality Research ◽

Psychological Correlates ◽

State Study ◽

Object Attachment ◽

Diary Methods ◽

State Variation

Abstract. Clinical and personality research consistently demonstrates that people can form unhealthy and problematic attachments to material possessions. To better understand this tendency, the current paper extends past research demonstrating that anxieties about other people motivate these attachments. These findings suggest that although object attachment generally correlates with poorer well-being, it may attenuate well-being deficits associated with insecurity about close relationships. The current paper presents two studies using converging correlational ( N = 394) and diary methods ( N = 413) to test whether object attachments’ association with poorer well-being is moderated by relationship uncertainties. We find that both trait (Study 1) and state (Study 2) insecurities about others eliminated, and in some cases reversed, the negative psychological correlates of object attachment. These effects, however, were only observed when focusing on between-person variation in both studies; within-person analysis demonstrated that state variation in object attachment predicted better psychological well-being. These results highlight a need for more nuanced studies of object attachment and well-being.

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