Associations among Relational Maintenance Behaviors, Attachment-Style Categories, and Attachment Dimensions

Autor:	Guy Foster Bachman, Laura K. Guerrero
Rok vydání:	2006
Předmět:	Communication media_common.quotation_subject Romance Developmental psychology Prosocial behavior Affection Openness to experience Attachment theory medicine Anxiety medicine.symptom Psychology Social psychology media_common
Zdroj:	Communication Studies. 57:341-361
ISSN:	1745-1035 1051-0974
DOI:	10.1080/10510970600845982
Popis:	Simon and Baxter (1993) demonstrated that secure individuals report using more assurances and romance to maintain their romantic relationships than do dismissive individuals. The present study extends Simon and Baxter's work by investigating a wider range of prosocial maintenance behaviors as well as two key dimensions underlying attachment style—anxiety and avoidance. Results from 189 couples who completed questionnaires showed that secure individuals reported using more assurances, romantic affection, and openness than did dismissive individuals. Fearful avoidant men also reported relatively low levels of prosocial maintenance behaviors, and preoccupied men and women reported relatively high levels of assurances, openness, and comfort/support. Respondents also reported using certain prosocial behaviors less when they had a preoccupied partner. In terms of attachment-style dimensions, respondents reported using less assurances when they were avoidant and their partner was anxious. One's own level of avoi...
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