Adult Attachment Styles: Some Thoughts on Closeness‐Distance Struggles

Pistole, M. Carole

doi:10.1111/j.1545-5300.1994.00147.x

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“…Predictions can also be made about the implications of adult attachment for the control or expression of positive emotion, given individual differences in attachment-related attitudes and goals, and the importance of distance-regulation in adult attachments (Collins & Read, 1994;Pistole, 1994). Because the expression of positive emotion is likely to lead to increased intimacy, individuals who prefer to maintain distance from their partners (i.e., individuals who are avoidant, or low in Comfort with closeness) may tend to contain these emotions.…”

Section: Adult Attachment and Positive Emotionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Adult attachment, emotional control, and marital satisfaction

Feeney

1999

Personal Relationships

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This study extends previous research into the relations among attachment style, emotional experience, and emotional control. Questionnaire measures of these variables were completed by a broad sample of 238 married couples. Continuous measures of attachment showed that insecure attachment (low Comfort with closeness; high Anxiety over relationships) was related to greater control of emotion, regardless of whether the emotion was partner-related or not. Insecure attachment was also associated with less frequent and intense positive emotion and with more frequent and intense negative emotion, although these links depended on context (partner-related or not), attachment dimension, and gender. Emotional control added to the prediction of marital satisfaction, after controlling for attachment dimensions; the most robust links with satisfaction were inverse relations with own control of positive emotion and with partner's control of negative emotion. The results are discussed in terms of attachment theory, affect regulation, and communication in marriage.

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Section: Adult Attachment and Positive Emotionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Adult attachment, emotional control, and marital satisfaction

Feeney

1999

Personal Relationships

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“…All of these ideas are useful but they do not present an integrative theoretical proposition; they are only isolated concepts that are all extensions of (dyadic) attachment concepts to the family as a whole. The same holds for extensions of attachment concepts to couple relationships, useful for describing problems in distance regulation between the partners such as pursuer-distancer escalations in couples (Pistole, 1994) or triangulation of children as a distance regulator (Byng-Hall, 1999). It seems that an integrative theoretical proposition has not yet been fully developed.…”

Section: K Von Sydowmentioning

confidence: 93%

“…This mutual neglect changed in the 1990s, however, when several authors pleaded for a family system view of attachment and/or an integration of attachment theory in family systems theory and psychotherapy. Most relevant literature published has a clinical focus and refers mostly to family, couples, and individual therapeutic practice (Byng-Hall, 1999;Minuchin, 1985;Pistole, 1994;Scheuerer-Englisch, 1995;Suess, 1995;WelterEnderlin, 1996). The literature has focused less often on the research implications of an integrative systems attachment view (Cowan, 1997;Cowan & McHale, 1996;Miculincer & Florian, 1999;van IJzendoorn & De Wolff, 1997), hence there appears to be a strong need for theoretical integration.…”

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confidence: 98%

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Systemic attachment theory and therapeutic practice: a proposal

Sydow

2002

Clin Psychology and Psychoth

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The fundamentals of attachment theory and family systems theory are outlined in this paper. Theoretical strengths and weaknesses of both approaches are discussed. First, the similarities of both approaches are analysed (focus on family relationships; focus on normal as well as disturbed development; status as metatheoretical perspectives). Then, the differences are outlined (empirical consolidation versus speculative theory development; integration versus abandonment of the concept of 'personality'; normativity versus non-normativity; deficit orientation versus resource orientation; dyadic versus triadic view; focus on past and present time versus focus on present and future). PROBLEMAttachment theory and family systems theory both focus on interpersonal and, more specifically, on family relationships. Both are applicable to developmental as well as clinical psychology, and both were developed at about the same time.

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“…Complex social (Dunphy, 1963) as well as cognitive (Furman & Simon, 1999) models of adolescent romantic attachment have been proposed. A smaller literature on adult romance (e.g., Hazan & Shaver, 1987;Pistole, 1994;Sharpsteen & Kirkpatrick, 1997), is dominated by attachment theory. Literatures on monogamy (e.g., Terrault, 2002) and promiscuity (e.g., Ginter, Soyer, & Rieger, 1992) explore these topics mostly with respect to STD transmission and animal behavior.…”

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Romantic Relationships and Their Social Context Among Gay/Bisexual Male Youth in the Castro District of San Francisco

Eyre

Arnold

Peterson

et al. 2007

Journal of Homosexuality

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ABSTRACT. This article examines the culture of romantic relationships among gay/bisexual male youth in the Castro District of San Francisco. The article seeks to specify the cultural ideology that informs these relationships, drawing upon ethnographic observation, autobiographical accounts, and informant cultural exegesis. The article also seeks to link thinking and experience inside romantic relationships (e.g., bonding, jealousy) to patterns of social behavior associated with romantic relationships (e.g., relationship sequestering, cheating), showing how both are informed by shared assumptions which make these emotions and gestures intelligible to the group. Beliefs about love, compatibility, and monogamy are explored. Reciprocity, including its degradation into negative forms, is examined with focus on the units of value that are exchanged in romantic relationships, in particular sentimental gifts. Gestures of commitment that mark commencement of a romantic relationship as well as extension of the dynamics of a relationship after "breakup" (as in "revenge sex" and "rebound relationships") are examined. Cultural systems that challenge adherence to a romantic ideology, such as a prestige economy associated with sex linked to an ethos of sexual exploration/recreation, are weighed against the pull of romance. "Drama," a hallmark of gay youth, is viewed in the context of romantic culture.

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Adult Attachment Styles: Some Thoughts on Closeness‐Distance Struggles

Cited by 80 publications

References 51 publications

Adult attachment, emotional control, and marital satisfaction

Adult attachment, emotional control, and marital satisfaction

Systemic attachment theory and therapeutic practice: a proposal

Romantic Relationships and Their Social Context Among Gay/Bisexual Male Youth in the Castro District of San Francisco

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