Description
In the last decade, few topics in social and personality psychology have attracted more interest than the application of attachment theory to adult relationships. Comprehensive and up-to-date, this book integrates the most important theoretical and empirical advances in this growing area of study and suggests new and promising directions for future investigation. Its balanced coverage of measurement issues, affect regulation, and clinical applications makes this a valuable sourcebook for scholars, students, and clinicians.
Chapter
PART II. Measurement Issues
2. Methods of Assessing Adult Attachment: Do They Converge?
3. Self-Report Measurement of Adult Attachment: An Integrative Overview
4. Adult Attachment Patterns: A Test of the Typological Model
5. Working Models of Attachment: A Theory-Based Prototype Approach
PART III. Affect Regulation
6. The Relationship between Adult Attachment Styles and Emotional and Cognitive Reactions to Stressful Events
7. Attachment Orientations, Social Support, and Conflict Resolution in Close Relationships
8. Adult Attachment and Relationship-Centered Anxiety: Responses to Physical and Emotional Distancing
PART IV. Clinical Applications
9. The Role of Attachment in Therapeutic Relationships
10. Dismissing-Avoidance and the Defensive Organization of Emotion, Cognition, and Behavior
11. Childhood Revisited: The Intimate Relationships of Individuals from Divorced and Conflict-Ridden Families
12. The Associations between Adult Attachment and Couple Violence: The Role of Communication Patterns and Relationship Satisfaction
PART V. Conceptual and Empirical Extensions
13. Evolution, Pair-Bonding, and Reproductive Strategies: A Reconceptualization of Adult Attachment
14. Adult Romantic Attachment and Individual Differences in Attitudes toward Physical Contact in the Context of Adult Romantic Relationships
Attachment Theory and Close Relationships
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