Typically developing adults and children can rapidly reach consensus regarding the trustworthiness of unfamiliar faces. Maltreated children can have problems with trusting others, yet those with the disinhibited form of reactive attachment disorder (dRAD) can be indiscriminately friendly. Whether children with dRAD symptoms appraise and conform to typical judgements about trustworthiness of fac...

Current research on adult attachment suggests that there are two underlying dimensions of adult attachment—anxiety and avoidance (Mikulincer & Shaver, 2007). Attachment anxiety refers to the degree to which adults are concerned with a desire for closeness and protection, and also their worries about the availability of and their worth to their partners. Avoidant attachment, on the other hand, r...

the aim of this study was to investigate the relationships between attachment styles (secure, avoidant and ambivalent) and satisfying basic psychological needs of children (independence, competence and relevance) with regard to mothers’ employment status. the subjects included 409 high school students selected randomly by multi-stage cluster sampling method. instruments were: attachment styles ...

The present study investigates children’s and adults' relative clause attachment preferences in sentences such as The student photographed the fan of the actress who was looking happy. 29 six to seven year-old monolingual English children and 37 adult native speakers of English participated both in an auditory questionnaire study and in an on-line self-paced listening experiment. While the adul...

Little is known about neural responses in the early automatic-stage processing of rejection cues from a partner. Event-related potentials (ERPs) offer a window to study processes that may be difficult to detect via behavioral methods. We focused on the N400 ERP component, which reflects the amount of semantic processing prompted by a target. When participants were primed by attachment-related c...

Predicting Adolescents’ Self-Differentiation and Attachment Styles Based on Family Flexibility, Parents’ Level of Self-Differentiation and Parental Attachment Styles F. Asl Dehghan, M.A. H. Rezaian, Ph.D. S. Hosseinian, Ph.D. The main purpose of the present study was to determine the role of family flexibility, parents’ level of self-differentiation, and pa...

the aim of this study was to determine the role of attachment styles and cognitive emotion regulation strategies in adolescents' social anxiety. 430 iranian high school students (200 boys and 230 girls) were selected by multistage cluster sampling method from high schools in isfahan city and completed a battery of scales including attachment styles scale (collins and read, 1990), cognitive...

BACKGROUND Low childhood socioeconomic status (SES) is reliably associated with poor adult health. Social environments early in life and physiological stress responses are theorized to underlie this link; however, the role of attachment orientations is relatively unknown. PURPOSE In this study, we examined whether attachment orientations (i.e., attachment anxiety and attachment avoidance) and...

This study assessed the correlates of self-control and police contact in a sample of Chicago public high school students. The investigation examined the effects of parental attachment/identification, family structure, and peer association on self-control and the effects of parental attachment/identification, family structure, peer association, and self-control on police contact. Differences bet...

OBJECTIVE Insecure attachment was explored as a moderator of the relationship between disease severity and psychosocial variables in a study of adjustment in women with inflammatory bowel disease (IBD). METHOD Participants were 218 women recruited through notices placed in the community, in gastroenterologists' offices, and through online postings to support groups and message boards specific...