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Mass panic and social attachment : the dynamics of human behavior
How do humans behave when under threat of attack or disaster? How does the social context affect individual behavior? Anthony Mawson provides an illuminating examination of individual and collective behavior under conditions of stress and danger, in response to both natural and manmade threats and disasters.
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Applying a Parent Training Program in a Naturalistic Behavior Analytic Context to Improve Attachment in Children with ASD
Infants develop attachment to their caregivers very early on. The quality of attachment is considered to be crucial for the emotional development of humans and animals alike. Despite its importance, very little is known about how attachment develops between children with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) and their caregivers. The purpose of the present study was to assess the attachment patterns of two young children with ASD with their parents and to identify the means for promoting parent, child, and parent–child relational characteristics that may contribute to the development of secure attachment. The results replicated prior findings pertaining to attachment quality of children with ASD and demonstrated the effectiveness of a naturalistic, behavior-analytic intervention in improving the quality of their attachment.
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Attachment in adulthood : structure, dynamics, and change
This authoritative text provides a systematic, comprehensive overview of theory and research on adult attachment. The authors trace how Bowlby's original constructs have evolved through the study of adolescents and adults.
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Attachment-related anxiety and avoidance and regulation of interpersonal distance in close relationships
We tested the relationships between attachment related anxiety and avoidance and interpersonal distance with significant others (mother, father, close friend, love target), as well as, the childhood self. One hundred seventy four university students (85 male and 89 female; average age was 23.90 years, SD = 4.42; 24 [13.8%] were married) participated in the study. They completed Experiences in Close Relationships-Relationship Structures questionnaire (ECR-RS), followed by a computerized version of the comfortable interpersonal distance (CID) task in both the passive state (when protagonists approached them) and the active state (when they approached targets). We asked participants to determine the point at which they felt uncomfortable (the discomfort point) and the point at which they wanted to stop the protagonist (the stop point). Analyses revealed that: (1) Global avoidance scores predicted individuals’ distance to parents, whereas global anxiety scores predicted distance to future love’s view and childhood self; (2) As avoidance increased, individuals allowed their parents to intrude more into their personal spaces; (3) Attachment anxiety and avoidance predicted the passive state better than the active state.
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The Role of Attachment Behaviors – Accessibility, Responsiveness, and Engagement in Perceived Emotional Relational Safety: A Deductive Grounded Theory Inquiry
There is a body of literature that examines and describes couples’ relational quality and emotional security through an attachment lens. In recent years, there has been an increased focus on specific attachment behaviors, including accessibility, responsiveness, and engagement, and their role in creating and maintaining a secure attachment bond between romantic partners. The purpose of this study was to use deductive grounded theory methods to examine whether these three attachment behaviors are reflected in couples’ own descriptions of safety and security in their relationships. Analysis of secondary qualitative data from 26 interviews confirmed the importance of accessibility, responsiveness, and engagement in couple relationships, and adds descriptions of how individuals in couple relationships experience attachment strengthening interactions. These findings can help professionals and researchers become more sensitive to how attachment behaviors manifest in interactions and affect the quality of intimate relationships.
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Attachment Security and Child's Empathy: The Mediating Role of Emotion Regulation
The current study examined the influence of multiple factors on individual differences in empathy; namely, attachment, negative emotionality, and emotion regulation. A total of 63 mothers completed the Attachment Q-set and questionnaires about their children's empathy, negative emotionality, and emotion regulation when children were 3 years old. Prosocial behavior was observed during a baby-cry procedure. Results of path analyses indicated that a model with attachment predicting empathy through the mediation of emotion regulation was the best fit for the data. Specifically, more-secure children were rated higher in emotion regulation and, consequently, higher in empathy. Furthermore, the optimal model was used to test empathy as a predictor of observed prosocial behavior. Here, children higher in empathy were observed to behave more prosocially. Overall, the results support the notion that more-secure children are more empathic because they are better emotion regulators.
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