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The effects of adult attachment style on post‐transgression response
Author(s) -
VAN MONSJOU ELIZABETH,
STRUTHERS C. WARD,
KHOURY CAREEN,
GUILFOYLE JOSHUA R.,
YOUNG REBECCA,
HODARA OSHRAT,
MULLER ROBERT T.
Publication year - 2015
Publication title -
personal relationships
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.81
H-Index - 83
eISSN - 1475-6811
pISSN - 1350-4126
DOI - 10.1111/pere.12106
Subject(s) - psychology , marine transgression , attachment theory , style (visual arts) , developmental psychology , social psychology , paleontology , history , archaeology , structural basin , biology
Two studies examined the relation between adult attachment styles and post‐transgression responses. Secure participants were predicted to be forgiving, preoccupied participants to be grudge oriented, fearful participants to be avoidant, and dismissing participants to be vengeful. Study 1 was nonexperimental, using a community sample of adults ( N = 565). Participants wrote about a moderately severe past transgression. Results supported the predictions. In Study 2, undergraduates' ( N = 134) attachment styles were manipulated by varying working models of self and other. Model of self was manipulated with false performance feedback. Model of other was manipulated by altering a confederate's availability and responsiveness during a bonding exercise. Response trends replicated Study 1 with the exception of avoidance. Dismissing individuals were the most avoidant.