Working models of attachment shape perceptions of social support: evidence from experimental and observational studies.

By N. Collins, B. Feeney. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 2004

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Subfields: Demography, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, Social Psychology

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Attachment styles and interpersonal approach and avoidance goals in everyday couple interactions (2008, background): “Another possibility is that the same types of situations threaten anxious and nonanxious individuals, but anxious individuals have more negative interpretations of relationship events (Collins, 1996; Collins & Feeney, 2004) or have lower thresholds for becoming self-protective.”
Emotional reactions and regulatory responses to negative and positive events: Associations with attachment and gender (2010, background): “The conclusion that anxiously attached people are highly reactive is consistent with other research and appears to be robust finding (Brennan and Bosson 1998; Carnelley et al. 2007; Collins and Feeney 2004 ).”
Optimizing assurance: the risk regulation system in relationships. (2006, background): “People who are high on attachment-related anxiety even interpret a partner’s ambiguous attempts to be supportive as intentionally hurtful (Collins & Feeney, 2004).”
Direct and indirect effects of attachment orientation on relationship quality and loneliness in married couples (2013, background): “Both the dimensions have been found to similarly impact beliefs and expectations about partner availability, responsiveness, and dependability (Collins & Feeney, 2004; Feeney & Collins, 2001).”
Explaining Variations in the Effects of Supportive Messages A Dual-Process Framework (2008, background): “Thus, not surprisingly, attachment style influences responses to support messages (Collins & Feeney, 2004; Herzberg et al., 1999; Larose et al., 2001; Lemieux & Tighe, 2004), with securely attached persons generally responding more favorably to these messages than those with anxious and/or avoidant…”
An attachment and behavioral systems perspective on social support (2009, background): “In two experimental studies, for example, Collins and Feeney (2004) found that insecurely attached people, whether anxious or avoidant or both, were predisposed to perceive and remember a partner’s helpful behavior as less supportive, especially if the behavior was ambiguous, open to subjective cons”
Responding to the needs of others: The caregiving behavioral system in intimate relationships (2010, background): “Consistent with this assumption, our laboratory studies in which caregiving quality is either experimentally manipulated (Collins & Feeney, 2004b) or coded by independent raters (Collins & Feeney, 2000) show that subjective perceptions of support are grounded, to a large extent, in the quality of…”
How does online social networking enhance life satisfaction? The relationships among online supportive interaction, affect, perceived social support, sense of community, and life satisfaction (2014, background): “Social support researchers have also suggested that characteristics of support recipients might influence how they interpret acquired social support (Collins & Feeney, 2004; Lakey & Cassady, 1990).”
Steps toward the ripening of relationship science. (2007, background): “…tend to perceive their partners ' caregiving efforts as less responsive and helpful than independent observers do , which may then lead them to feel less supported and more conflicted about the relationship ( Campbell , Simpson , Boldry , & Kashy , 2005 ; Collins & Feeney , 2004 ; Simpson et al .”
AN EVOLUTIONARY SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGICAL APPROACH TO STUDYING THE EFFECTS OF OSTRACISM (2012, background): “Research demonstrates that insecurely attached individuals often respond more negatively to relationship threats than securely attached individuals (Campbell et al., 2005; Collins & Feeney, 2004; Simpson, Ickes, & Grich, 1999).”
Decoding Customer–Firm Relationships: How Attachment Styles Help Explain Customers' Preferences for Closeness, Repurchase Intentions, and Changes in Relationship Breadth (2013, background): “Collins and Feeney (2004) argue that this dilemma is typically resolved in favor of avoidance because fearful people’s cognitions about the risks of closeness override their emotional desire for closeness.”
Perceptions of conflict and support in romantic relationships: the role of attachment anxiety. (2005, background): “…are distressed perceive greater hurtful intent if their partners provide them with “ambiguous” support, and this experience leads them to remember their partners acting in a less supportive manner in a prior videotaped interaction than neutral observers rate their partners (Collins & Feeney, 2004).”
Good News! Capitalizing on Positive Events in an Interpersonal Context (2010, background): “Attachment researchers have typically focused on the tendency for individuals to turn to others to relieve anxiety and other negative emotions, often described as the safe haven function of attachment (e.g., Collins & Feeney, 2004).”
Perceived social support, received social support, and depression among clergy (2019, background): “For example, experimental evidence suggests perceptions of received social support are strongly related to an individual’s attachment style (Collins & Feeney, 2004; Mikulincer & Shaver, 2009).”
The Role of Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction on Perceived Stress: Preliminary Evidence for the Moderating Role of Attachment Style (2009, background): “However, in light of evidence that, compared to securely attached persons, individuals with insecure attachment styles tend to perceive social support more negatively (e.g., Collins & Feeney, 2004), the group setting of MBSR may present a stressor for persons with this attachment style.”