Two Dimensions of Attachment to God and Their Relation to Affect, Religiosity, and Personality Constructs

By W. Rowatt, Lee A. Kirkpatrick. 2002

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Subfields: Clinical Psychology, Health, Social Psychology

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In Clinical Psychology

1. K. Pargament
2. Julie J. Exline
3. Joshua B. Grubbs
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6. Everett L. Worthington Jr.
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2. K. Pargament
3. Julie J. Exline
4. Everett L. Worthington Jr.
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6. A. Yali
7. Joshua B. Grubbs
8. Peter C. Hill

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2. Don E. Davis
3. J. Hook
4. Julie J. Exline
5. Peter C. Hill
6. Jamie D. Aten
7. Kirby K. Reutter
8. K. Pargament

Citations in the corpus

• Development, refinement, and psychometric properties of the Attitudes Toward God Scale (ATGS-9). (2010, background): “For many believers, the bond with God takes the form of an attachment relationship (e.g., Beck & McDonald, 2004; Kirkpatrick, 1998, 2004; Kirkpatrick & Shaver, 1990; Rowatt & Kirkpatrick, 2002) in which they see God as nurturing, protecting, and caring for them.”
• The Religious and Spiritual Struggles Scale: Development and initial validation (2014, background): “…2009), the Attitudes toward God Scale-9 (Wood et al., 2010), the Spiritual Assessment Inventory (Hall & Edwards, 1996, 2002), and measures of attachment to God (Beck & McDonald, 2004; Rowatt & Kirkpatrick, 2002) and anger toward God (e.g., Exline, Park, Smyth, & Carey, 2011) tap divine struggle.”
• Attachment to God in Islamic Spirituality (2013, background): “For example, insecure attachment to God is related to negative affect (Rowatt & Kirkpatrick, 2002), loneliness (Kirpatrick, Shillito, & Kellas, 1998), anxiety and poorer existential well- being (Miner, 2009), and less helpful religious coping that predicts poor adjustment (Belavich & Pargament,…”
• Research on religion/spirituality and forgiveness: A meta-analytic review. (2013, background): “The first category assessed trait and trait-like constructs that tend to be fairly stable over time, such as religious commitment (Worthington et al., 2003), God image (e.g., Gorsuch, 1968), and attachment to God (Rowatt & Kirkpatrick, 2002).”
• Religiosity and Spirituality as Resiliency Resources: Moderation, Mediation, or Moderated Mediation? (2014, background): “In addition, Rowatt and Kirkpatrick (2002) found an anxious attachment to God was a significant predictor of positive affect (β = -.14) and negative affect (β = 0.17).”
• Prayer, Attachment to God, and Symptoms of Anxiety-Related Disorders among U.S. Adults (2014, background): “…to believe that God is warm, caring, supportive, and protective, whereas persons with a more insecure attachment tend to believe that God is cold and indifferent, and those with an anxious attachment view God as inconsistent and unreliable (Kirkpatrick and Shaver 1992; Rowatt and Kirkpatrick 2002).”
• Attachment to God, Stressful Life Events, and Changes in Psychological Distress (2012, background): “…the literature on adult attachment styles that multi-item self-report measures tap two continuous and relatively orthogonal dimensions of attachment: (1) secure/avoidant (with secure and avoidant attachment being opposite ends of a single continuum); and (2) anxious (Rowatt and Kirkpatrick 2002).”