Adult attachment, love styles, and self-defeating personality characteristics.
The present research showed for 79 men and 79 women that people with more characteristics of the proposed self-defeating personality diagnosis had less secure adult attachments. In addition, self-defeating women described their style of loving as game playing and being less romantically involved. Both men and women who were more self-defeating, once in a relationship, reported feeling dependent, jealous, and desperate to maintain it. These results are consistent with the 1993 findings of Williams and Schill that people with more self-defeating characteristics were more likely to lack secure attachments with parents.
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Department of Psychology, Southern Illinois University at Carbondale 62901-6502.
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D000328:Adult; D005260:Female; D005783:Gender Identity; D006801:Humans; D008149:Love; D008297:Male; D009769:Object Attachment; D010553:Personality Development; D010554:Personality Disorders / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000523:psychology; D010555:Personality Inventory; D012059:Rejection, Psychology; D012649:Self Concept