Abstract Contemporary attachment researchers claim that attachment-anxiety is associated with a hyperactivating defense strategy while attachment-avoidance deactivating strategy. However, to date, no study has comprehensively examined the basic patterns of specific expression in two dimensions insecurity (anxiety/avoidance). To address this research gap, current aimed assess character defenses ...

John Bowlby’s (1979) proposal that ‘attachment behavior is held to characterize human beings from the cradle to the grave’ (p. 129) has spawned a large body of research applying principles of attachment theory to adult love relationships. A central and commendable goal of Shaver and Mikulincer’s target article was to provide a means of bridging the conceptual gap between two lines of research w...

BACKGROUND Based on Bowlby's attachment theory, Bartholomew proposed a four-category attachment typology by which individuals judged themselves and adult relationships. This explanatory model has since been used to help explain the risk of psychiatric comorbidity. OBJECTIVE The current study aimed to identify attachment typologies based on Bartholomew's attachment styles in a sample of bereav...