Keyword

attachment avoidance

Description: An insecure attachment dimension marked by discomfort with emotional closeness and reliance on others, studied in interpersonal and developmental psychology.

Primary topic: Attachment and Relationship Dynamics (52%)

OpenAlex ID: keywords/avoidant-attachment

Romantic love conceptualized as an attachment process.

1987 · Cindy Hazan, Phillip Shaver · Journal of Personality and Social Psychology · 6,286

Adult attachment, working models, and relationship quality in dating couples.

1990 · Nancy L. Collins, Stephen J. Read · Journal of Personality and Social Psychology · 3,675

Emotion Regulation: Influences of Attachment Relationships

1994 · Jude Cassidy · Monographs of the Society for Research in Child Development · 1,513

Influence of attachment styles on romantic relationships.

1990 · Jeffry A. Simpson · Journal of Personality and Social Psychology · 1,498

The Significance of Insecure Attachment and Disorganization in the Development of Children’s Externalizing Behavior: A Meta-Analytic Study

2010 · R Pasco Fearon, Marian J Bakermans-Kranenburg, et al. · Child Development · 1,325

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Support seeking and support giving within couples in an anxiety-provoking situation: The role of attachment styles.

1992 · Jeffry A. Simpson, William S. Rholes, et al. · Journal of Personality and Social Psychology · 1,321

The Experiences in Close Relationship Scale (ECR)-Short Form: Reliability, Validity, and Factor Structure

2007 · Meifen Wei, Daniel W. Russell, et al. · Journal of Personality Assessment · 1,312

A safe haven: An attachment theory perspective on support seeking and caregiving in intimate relationships.

2000 · Nancy L. Collins, Brooke C. Feeney · Journal of Personality and Social Psychology · 1,301

Love and work: An attachment-theoretical perspective.

1990 · Cindy Hazan, Phillip R. Shaver · Journal of Personality and Social Psychology · 1,220

Attachment style as a predictor of adult romantic relationships.

1990 · Judith A. Feeney, Patricia Noller · Journal of Personality and Social Psychology · 1,218

Attachment security and disorganization in maltreating and high-risk families: A series of meta-analyses

2010 · Chantal Cyr, Eveline M. Euser, et al. · Development and Psychopathology · 912

Adult attachment in a nationally representative sample.

1997 · Kristin D. Mickelson, Ronald C. Kessler, et al. · Journal of Personality and Social Psychology · 843

Extraversion, neuroticism, attachment style and fear of missing out as predictors of social media use and addiction

2017 · David Blackwell, Carrie Leaman, et al. · Personality and Individual Differences · 837

Mentalization-Based Treatment for Self-Harm in Adolescents: A Randomized Controlled Trial

2012 · Trudie I. Rossouw, Peter Fonagy · Journal of the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry · 745

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Attachment, Caregiving, and Altruism: Boosting Attachment Security Increases Compassion and Helping.

2005 · Mario Mikulincer, Phillip R. Shaver, et al. · Journal of Personality and Social Psychology · 739

Working Models of Attachment Shape Perceptions of Social Support: Evidence From Experimental and Observational Studies.

2004 · Nancy L. Collins, Brooke C. Feeney · Journal of Personality and Social Psychology · 733

Attachment orientations and emotion regulation

2018 · Mario Mikulincer, Phillip R Shaver · Current Opinion in Psychology · 715

Activation of the attachment system in adulthood: Threat-related primes increase the accessibility of mental representations of attachment figures.

2002 · Mario Mikulincer, Omri Gillath, et al. · Journal of Personality and Social Psychology · 694

Attachment style, gender, and relationship stability: A longitudinal analysis.

1994 · Lee A. Kirkpatrick, Keith E. Davis · Journal of Personality and Social Psychology · 686

The origins of 12-month attachment: A microanalysis of 4-month mother–infant interaction

2010 · Beatrice Beebe, Joseph Jaffe, et al. · Attachment & Human Development · 651

Attachment styles, coping strategies, and posttraumatic psychological distress: The impact of the Gulf War in Israel.

1993 · Mario Mikulincer, Victor Florian, et al. · Journal of Personality and Social Psychology · 641

The Significance of Insecure and Disorganized Attachment for Children’s Internalizing Symptoms: A Meta-Analytic Study

2012 · Ashley M Groh, Glenn I Roisman, et al. · Child Development · 638

Effects of Early Maternal Depression on Patterns of Infant‐Mother Attachment: A Meta‐analytic Investigation

2000 · Carla Martins, E. A. Gaffan · Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry · 638

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Adult Attachment, Social Self-Efficacy, Self-Disclosure, Loneliness, and Subsequent Depression for Freshman College Students: A Longitudinal Study.

2005 · Meifen Wei, Daniel W. Russell, et al. · Journal of Counseling Psychology · 618

Attachment Styles and the "Big Five" Personality Traits: Their Connections with Each Other and with Romantic Relationship Outcomes

1992 · Phillip R. Shaver, Kelly A. Brennan · Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin · 615

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Citation count: 209,600