Attachment and Borderline Personality Disorder: Differential Effects on Situational Socio-Affective Processes

Kaurin, Aleksandra; Beeney, Joseph E.; Stepp, Stephanie D.; Scott, Lori N.; Woods, William C.; Pilkonis, Paul A.; Wright, Aidan G.C.

doi:10.1007/s42761-020-00017-7

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“…Key to our decisions about sample size was the goal of arriving at stable estimates of within-person effects that were consistent with previous work with similar sampling schemes (e.g., Sadikaj et al, 2013;Lazarus et al, 2018;Kaurin et al, 2020a). Simulations indicated that power would exceed .80 at an alpha level of .05 for each within-person effect with sample sizes of N>50, including tests of main effects and variance components.…”

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confidence: 66%

“…Participants completed a seven-day event-contingent ambulatory assessment protocol and were asked to fill out a survey following any interpersonal interaction that lasted at least 5 minutes. In addition to situational attachment expectations, participants reported on perceptions of their interaction partner's behavior and their own interpersonal behavior and affective experience during interactions (Kaurin et al, 2020a(Kaurin et al, , 2020bWright et al, 2017).…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Based on theoretical (Fraley & Brumbaugh, 2004;Mikulincer & Shaver, 2003) and empirical work (Kaurin et al, 2020a;Sadikaj, Moskowitz, & Zuroff, 2011) proposing that patterns of interpersonal perceptions and behaviors vary as a function of attachment orientations, we predicted that fluctuations of attachment would be associated with the perceived quality of the interaction. Specifically, we hypothesized that when interactions were characterized by perceived interpersonal warmth, change in the direction of increased security and decreased anxiety and avoidance would be observed.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Undergraduate students (N=263, reporting 3971 social interactions) were recruited online from introductory psychology courses at the University of Pittsburgh. To increase the trustworthiness of our EMA measurements and consistent with previous work based on a similar assessment protocol (Kaurin et al, 2020a;Sadikaj et al, 2013;Wright et al, 2017), participants with fewer than 10 interactions were excluded (30.4%; n = 80). This resulted in a final sample of N=183 (3574 social interactions) whose members were 57% female and ranged in age from 18 to 27, with the majority (85%) being 18 and 19 years old (M=18.86, SD=2.25).…”

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Attachment Manifestations in Daily Interpersonal Interactions

Kaurin¹,

Wright²,

Pilkonis³

2021

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The predominant focus in attachment research on trait-like individual differences has overshadowed investigation of the ways in which working models of attachment represent dynamic, interpersonally responsive socio-affective systems. Intensive longitudinal designs extend previous work by evaluating to what extent attachment varies over social interactions and the functional processes that underlie its fluctuation. We examined momentary activation of attachment orientations in the stream of peoples’ daily lives and how those patterns were linked to interpersonal behavior. Based on an event-contingent, ambulatory 7-day assessment protocol (N=263; 3971 interactions) operationalized using Contemporary Integrative Interpersonal Theory, we examined whether contextually activated working models accounted for patterns of interpersonal complementarity. Our analyses revealed that the situational activation of working models varied as a function of interpersonal perceptions of warmth, which were linked to greater state security and lower levels of anxious or avoidant expectations. These reactivity patterns, in turn, accounted for interpersonal complementarity. Avoidant attachment was linked to diminished and secure attachment to enhanced expressions of warmth. The analyses were robust even when controlling for momentary negative affect and closeness of the relationship. Attachment expectations wax and wane across daily social interactions, and such fluctuations are reflective primarily of a process in which perceptions of others’ warmth activate secure attachment expectations and lower insecure ones.

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Pilkonis³

2021

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“…Relatedly, future work may benefit from expanding EMA-based investigations to include broader clinical constructs with strong ties to antagonism to examine how antagonistic traits may influence effects observed for the broader construct. Some work has been done examining such constructs, including narcissism (e.g., Edershile et al, 2019;Wright et al, 2017) and borderline personality disorder (e.g., Kaurin et al, 2020;Sadikaj et al, 2012). However, to our knowledge, no work has examined psychopathy or antisocial personality disorder using an EMA approach, although there have been studies showing the feasibility of using EMA approaches with adolescents with notable levels of antisocial behavior (Pihet et al, 2017).…”

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Antagonism in Daily Life: An Exploratory Ecological Momentary Assessment Study

Vize¹,

Ringwald

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Clinical Psychological Science

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Interpersonal antagonism is one of the major domains of maladaptive personality. Structure-based investigations of antagonism have generally been consistent in highlighting the more specific antagonistic traits (e.g., manipulativeness, callousness) that underlie the broader domain. However, less work has attempted to merge structural and functional accounts of antagonism to assess how specific antagonistic traits manifest in daily life. This exploratory study examined how antagonism and its specific features relate to outcomes assessed using ecological momentary assessment (EMA) methods. Across four independent EMA samples ( N range = 297–396; total N = 1,365; observations per outcome = 5,419–17,735), we investigated how antagonistic traits related to theoretically relevant, EMA-based outcomes (e.g., affect, empathy, coldness-warmth in interpersonal interactions). Results showed robust findings across samples and operationalizations of antagonism (e.g., antagonism’s relation with negative affect), along with more mixed results (e.g., antagonism’s RELATION with different measures of empathy). We discuss future research directions for structural and functional accounts of antagonism.

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Attachment Manifestations in Daily Interpersonal Interactions

2022

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The predominant focus in attachment research on trait-like individual differences has overshadowed investigation of the ways in which working models of attachment represent dynamic, interpersonally responsive socio-affective systems. Intensive longitudinal designs extend previous work by evaluating to what extent attachment varies over social interactions and the functional processes that underlie its fluctuation. We examined momentary activation of attachment orientations in the stream of peoples’ daily lives and how those patterns were linked to interpersonal behavior. Based on an event-contingent, ambulatory 7-day assessment protocol (N=263; 3,971 interactions) operationalized using Contemporary Integrative Interpersonal Theory, we examined whether contextually activated working models accounted for patterns of interpersonal (anti-)complementarity. Our analyses revealed that the situational activation of working models varied as a function of interpersonal perceptions of warmth, which were linked to greater state security and lower levels of anxious or avoidant expectations. These reactivity patterns, in turn, accounted for interpersonal complementarity. Avoidant attachment was linked to diminished and secure attachment to enhanced expressions of warmth. The analyses were robust even when controlling for momentary positive and negative affect and closeness of the relationship. Attachment expectations wax and wane across daily social interactions, and such fluctuations are reflective primarily of a process in which perceptions of others’ warmth activate secure attachment expectations and lower insecure ones.

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Attachment and Borderline Personality Disorder: Differential Effects on Situational Socio-Affective Processes

Cited by 11 publications

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