Attachment theory (Bowlby, 1969) and its limitations are first described. Next, emotional availability (EA; Biringen et al., 1998; Biringen, 2008) is introduced as an expansion upon the original conceptualization of the parent-child attachment relationship. As a construct and as a measure, EA considers the dyadic and emotional qualities of adult-child relationships. EA is predictive of a variet...

This article summarizes the development and validation of the Adult Attachment Projective System (AAP), a measure we developed from the Bowlby-Ainsworth developmental tradition to assess adult attachment status. The AAP has demonstrated excellent concurrent validity with the Adult Attachment Interview (George, Kaplan, & Main, 1984/1985/1996; Main & Goldwyn, 1985-1994; Main, Goldwyn, & Hesse, 20...

Within the research area on the determinants of childhood obesity, a relatively new approach is the use of attachment theory to explore the mechanisms underlying children's obesity risk, especially considered as emotion regulation strategies in parent-child relationship. Few are the empirical researches that have addressed this issue. The empirical investigations have used self-report measures ...

The authors examined the relationship between separation-individuation, adult attachment styles, and college adjustment, One hundred fifty-six young adults completed the Psychological Separation Inventory (J. A. Hoffman, 1984; J. A. Hoffman & B. Weiss, 1987), 2 subscales from the Student Adaptation to College Questionnaire (R. W Baker & B. Siryk, 1989), a measure of pathology of separation-indi...

Research on antecedents of organized attachment has focused on the quality of caregiving received during childhood. In recent years, research has begun to examine the influence of genetic factors on quality of infant attachment. However, no published studies report on the association between specific genetic factors and adult attachment. This study examined the link between the 5-HTTLPR promote...

This study aims to determine relationship between phubbing and adult attachment. research was conducted on 72 married women spread across the city of Makassar using simple regression analysis methods in processing data results. The results revealed that behavior influenced anxiety attachment avoidance effect anxious appears be less strong, but stronger. Based these results, it can concluded aff...

OBJECTIVE Adult attachment has been suggested to mediate the effect of social support on stress protection. The purpose of this study was to investigate the effects of adult attachment and social support on psychological and endocrine responses to psychosocial stress. METHODS Sixty-three healthy men who were married or cohabiting were randomly assigned to receive either instructed social supp...

Purpose: This study was conducted to investigate adult attachment, self-esteem, communication self-efficacy, and empathy in nurses and identify factors affecting empathy. Methods: The data were collected from 100 nurses at K,D University Hospital in D city, K Province. Data were analyzed using SPSS version 20.0 to obtain means and standard deviations and perform frequency analysis, t tests, and...