Working models of attachment and daily social interactions.
This study tested whether working models of attachment guide how people construe and respond to social interactions by examining immediate responses to a range of everyday interactions and to specific attachment-relevant interactions. Patterns for immediate reports were compared with those for more memory-based, global reports. Secure, preoccupied, fearful, and dismissing participants provided immediate reports after their social interactions for 1 week and completed retrospective questionnaires. Attachment differences were accentuated in attachment-relevant, high-conflict interactions. Preoccupied participants responded more favorably after conflict than did secure or dismissing-models contribute to perceptions may depend on the fit between attachment goals and the situation and on the extent of memory-based processing.
Pietromonaco
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Department of Psychology, University of Massachusetts, Amherst 01003-7710, USA. monaco@psych.umass.edu
Barrett
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D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D003674:Defense Mechanisms; D004644:Emotions; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007206:Individuality; D007398:Interpersonal Relations; D008297:Male; D011939:Mental Recall; D009769:Object Attachment; D010552:Personality Assessment; D012649:Self Concept; D012938:Social Perception; D013334:Students / Q000523:psychology