BACKGROUND Patient-provider relationships in primary care are characterized by greater continuity and depth than in non-primary care specialties. We hypothesized that relationship styles of medical students based on attachment theory are associated with specialty choice factors and that such factors will mediate the association between relationship style and ultimately matching in a primary car...

How attachment style affects emotion processing is tightly connected with individuals' attention bias. This experiment explored avoidant individuals' attentional engagement and attentional disengagement using a cue-target paradigm in fMRI. The experimental group consisted of 17 avoidant participants, while the control group consisted of 16 secure participants; these were identified by the Exper...

BACKGROUND & AIMS The long-term success of life-style interventions in the treatment of obesity is limited. Although psychological factors have been suggested to modify therapeutic effects, specifically the implications of attachment styles and the patient-therapist relationship have not been examined in detail yet. METHODS This study included 44 obese patients who participated in a one-year ...

Sixty undergraduates at a public university in the northwest United States recorded their approach and avoidance communal (closeness), uncommunal (distance), agentic (assertion), and unagentic (submission) goals during a total of 836 naturalistic interactions with romantic partners. They also completed a self-report measure of attachment style. Secure attachment predicted more approach than avo...

Objectives: To report the results of a systematic review to evaluate the role of attachment in adjustment to cancer for patients and those close to them. Methods: A systematic search of electronic databases was undertaken, identifying literature published up to June 2013. PsychINFO, Medline, and the Cumulative Index to Nursing & Allied Health Literature (CINAHL) were searched using search strin...

Twenty-four clients were asked to nominate an incident that was critical to the development of their therapeutic relationship with a therapist trainee. Therapist interventions within each client relationship-building incident (RBI) were identified. Relationships between therapist interventions and the attachment dimensions of anxiety and avoidance were examined. The results of multiple regressi...

115 The term attachment is usually used to refer to the relationship between a mother and a child. That is, indeed, the basic example of attachment if the mother is the one who takes care of the child. But, a child can also be attached to the father, grandmother, grandfather, and later to friends, a partner and other people with whom the child may be in a long emotional relationship, regardless...