A Net of Friends: Investigating Friendship by Integrating Attachment Theory and Social Network Analysis

Gillath, Omri; Karantzas, Gery C.; Selçuk, Emre

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“…Accordingly, comprehensive literature on individual differences in attachment organization emphasizes the importance of attachment insecurity for various externalizing problems in the future (Fransson et al, 2013), which also reflects on the quality of social interactions with others and the number of friends (Murakami, 2014). Individual differences in attachment style reflect on how people behave not only in friendships but in broader social networks as well (Gillath et al, 2017).…”

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Personality, Parental Behavior, and Attachment to Close Friends

Ivanec¹,

Babojelić²

2020

IJPS

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The aim of this study was to examine the relationship between young women’s personality traits, perceived parental behavior of their parents, and the dimensions of attachment to close friends. Results generally indicated significant effects of personality traits and parental behavior on attachment to close friends. More specifically, agreeableness was a negative predictor of attachment anxiety, and neuroticism was a positive predictor of the same attachment dimension. Both agreeableness and extraversion were negative predictors of attachment avoidance. Parental behavior was predictive for attachment avoidance in close friendship, while there were no effects of parental behavior on attachment anxiety. Mothers’ supportiveness and restrictive control were negative predictors of attachment avoidance, whereby fathers’ support was a positive predictor of this attachment dimension. The results imply the importance of both personality and parental behavior as determinants of attachment to close friends and also suggest the need for further research of specific associations within the context of these broad theoretical constructs.

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Personality, Parental Behavior, and Attachment to Close Friends

Ivanec¹,

Babojelić²

2020

IJPS

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“…Beyond infancy, attachment behaviours are observed to be 'activated' in times of stress or ambiguity, for example when there is a perceived or real threat (Bowlby 1971). In adulthood, close relationships such as romantic relationships, friendships, but also client-provider relationships, can have characteristics of an attachment relationship (Gillath et al, 2017;Hadden et al, 2014;Mallinckrodt, 2010).…”

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Assessing emotional aspects of midwives’ intrapartum care: Development of the emotional availability and responsiveness in intrapartum care scale

Leinweber¹,

Creedy

Rowe

et al. 2019

Midwifery

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“…While older literature reviews concluded that research does not frequently find that the effectiveness of security priming varies for individuals depending on how anxiously or avoidantly attached they are dispositionally (Gillath et al, 2016;Gillath, Selcuk, & Shaver, 2008), a recent systematic review of security priming research published from 2016-2018 came to a slightly different conclusion (Gillath & Karantzas, 2019). In five out of the nine reviewed studies that tested for interactions, people who were higher in trait attachment anxiety appeared to benefit more from security priming (Bryant & Chan, 2017;Dutton, Lane, Koren, & Bartholomew, 2016;Gillath, Karantzas, & Selcuk, 2017;Tang, Chen, Hu, & Liu, 2017). Moreover, two studies found the effect of security priming to be moderated by trait attachment avoidance (Bryant & Chan, 2017;Gillath et al, 2017).…”

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“…In five out of the nine reviewed studies that tested for interactions, people who were higher in trait attachment anxiety appeared to benefit more from security priming (Bryant & Chan, 2017;Dutton, Lane, Koren, & Bartholomew, 2016;Gillath, Karantzas, & Selcuk, 2017;Tang, Chen, Hu, & Liu, 2017). Moreover, two studies found the effect of security priming to be moderated by trait attachment avoidance (Bryant & Chan, 2017;Gillath et al, 2017). Given that attachment orientations are sometimes shown to interact with experimental manipulations and that null moderation findings might be attributed, at least in part, to the small sample sizes employed in this area, it seems wise for researchers to include trait measures of attachment when investigating attachment processes at the state level, while also ensuring that studies have adequate statistical power to detect moderation effects if they exist.…”

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From mother to Mother Nature: The role of interpersonal attachment in human–nature relations

Capaldi¹

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Over the past two decades, environmental psychologists have become increasingly interested in the concept of nature connectedness: the degree to which people feel connected to the natural world. Nature connectedness has been shown to predict a variety of important individual differences, including stronger proenvironmental attitudes and behaviours, and greater well-being. Despite the increased attention that this topic has recently received, there is a dearth of research that has comprehensively examined how people's relationship to nature might be related to and influenced by social relationships and contexts. In this dissertation, I consider and test the applicability of attachment theory to human-nature relations. Across two studies, I examined whether interpersonal attachment orientations (i.e., attachment anxiety and attachment avoidance) are associated with nature connectedness at the trait-level. I also investigated whether momentary activation of specific attachment-related schemas influence people's motivation to connect with nature, and whether dispositional attachment orientations and nature connectedness moderate the impact of these temporarily activated schemas on motivation to connect with nature. Evidence for relationships between interpersonal attachment orientations and nature connectedness at the trait-level were weak and inconsistent across the two studies. Motivation to connect with nature did not differ across experimental conditions in either study, but some evidence was found for interpersonal attachment orientations moderating the effect of some of the experimental conditions. In general, the current research did not provide clear and consistent evidence for a link between how people relate to close others and how they relate to nature, or for attachment-related contexts impacting people's motivation to connect with nature. Based on these results, one could conclude that attachment theory appears to have limited relevance for understanding human-nature relations. Limitations and future research directions are discussed.

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A Net of Friends: Investigating Friendship by Integrating Attachment Theory and Social Network Analysis

Cited by 43 publications

References 55 publications

Personality, Parental Behavior, and Attachment to Close Friends

Personality, Parental Behavior, and Attachment to Close Friends

Assessing emotional aspects of midwives’ intrapartum care: Development of the emotional availability and responsiveness in intrapartum care scale

From mother to Mother Nature: The role of interpersonal attachment in human–nature relations

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