Social value orientation and attachment: a replication and extension of Van Lange et al. (1997)

Autor: Hans IJzerman, Jaap J. A. Denissen
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2019
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Zdroj: Royal Society Open Science, Vol 6, Iss 4 (2019)
Druh dokumentu: article
ISSN: 2054-5703
DOI: 10.1098/rsos.181575
Popis: We report a replication and extension of a finding from Studies 1 and 2 of Van Lange et al.'s influential paper (Van Lange et al. 1997 J. Pers. Soc. Psychol. 73, 733–746. (doi:10.1037/0022-3514.73.4.733)), which showed an association between Social Value Orientation (SVO) and attachment security. We report a close replication but with measures of attachment that are considered superior in comparison to measures used by Van Lange et al., due to subsequent psychometric improvements. Psychometric analyses indeed showed that our attachment measures were reliable and valid, demonstrating theoretically predicted associations with other outcomes. With a sample (N = 879) sufficiently large to detect d = 0.19 (and larger than the original N = 573), we failed to replicate the effect. Based on the available evidence, we interpret as there being no evidence for the link between attachment security and Social Value Orientation, but further replication research that uses solid measures and large samples can provide more definite conclusions about the association between attachment and SVO.
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