The present study investigated the relationship between Adult Attachment, Interpersonal Relations Anxiety, and Life Satisfaction in university students. It was hypothesized that there is a significant variables of study. Moreover, gender difference with respect to expected this research. Attachment Scale, Anxiety Questionnaire, Scale were used analyze variables. sample comprised 200 students ag...

Research on the attachment theory has contributed to a better understanding of the parental or caregiver relationship with their children. However, research on adult attachment and perceptions of relational conflict is minimal. This study looked at the relationship between adult attachment, self-esteem and romantic relationship conflict. Participants (N = 120) completed a questionnaire with mea...

Three studies tested the expectation that automatic reactions elicited by the mental representation of one’s current romantic partner, mother, and self relate to adult romantic attachment. Adult romantic attachment was assessed using multiple measures, and individual differences in automatic reactions were assessed by the Implicit Association Test (IAT). Studies 1 and 2 showed that automatic re...

In this paper, we describe the development of and our preliminary work to empirically validate the Adult Attachment Projective (AAP), a new adult attachment classification system that is based on the analysis of individuals' responses to a set of seven attachment-related drawings. The AAP classification system uses evaluations of three dimensions (Discourse, Content and Defensive Processing) to...

In this chapter, we discuss attachment theory and our programs of research on how individuals with different adult attachment orientations think, feel, and especially behave when they and their romantic partners encounter different types of stressful situations. In Section 2, we review some basic principles of attachment theory, discuss what adult attachment orientations are, and summarize what...

Despite the increasing use of psychophysiological measures to investigate social and interpersonal phenomena, few studies of adult romantic attachment have taken advantage of this approach. In this article I argue for a biologically-specific, theory-based integration of psychophysiological measures into adult attachment research. This approach would help elucidate the normative psychobiological...

Abstract It is suggested in literature that there a link between Alexithymia and Self-Differentiation; however, little known about possible mediation factors. The goal of this work to test non-clinical population adults the role Fear Intimacy Adult Attachment relationship Self-Differentiation. A sample 258 participants self identified as gay or lesbian, aged 20–50 years (M: 30.29; SD: 7.27), 45...