Mental Representations of Attachment Security: Theoretical Foundation for a Positive Social Psychology.

By Mario Mikulincer, Phillip R. Shaver. 2005

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• Positive psychology: Past, present, and (possible) future (2006, background): “At the meta-psychological level, it aims to redress the imbalance in psychological research and practice by calling attention to the positive aspects of human functioning and experience, and integrating them with our understanding of the negative aspects of human functioning and experience.”
• Linking adult attachment to self-esteem stability (2007, background): “Consistent with this point of view, Mikulincer and Shaver (2005) reviewed considerable evidence indicating that the defensiveness and self-aggrandizing tendencies associated with unstable (in particular high) self-esteem (Kernis, 2003) are absent in people with secure attachment representations.”
• Place Attachment Enhances Psychological Need Satisfaction (2017, background): “…attachment can enhance belonging (La Guardia et al., 2000), self-esteem (Kumashiro & Sedikides, 2005; Mikulincer & Shaver, 2007), and meaning (Mikulincer & Shaver, 2005), lending further support to the notion that place and interpersonal attachment have a number of common principles, and…”
• Compassionate mind training for people with high shame and self‐criticism: overview and pilot study of a group therapy approach (2006, background): “13, 353–379 (2006) DOI: 10.1002/cpp to cope with setbacks and failures is related to the accessibility of schema and memories of others as helpful and soothing (see Baldwin & Dandeneau, 2005; Mikulincer & Shaver, 2004, 2005).”
• Boosting Attachment Security to Promote Mental Health, Prosocial Values, and Inter-Group Tolerance (2007, background): “In fact, defensive selfenhancement indicates that a person doesn’t have an adequate sense of security and has to struggle for a sense of self-worth while harboring doubts about being competent and lovable (Mikulincer & Shaver, 2005).”
• Beyond Attitudes: Attachment and Consumer Behavior (2007, unknown): “According to Mikulincer and Shaver (2005), when proximity seeking is appraised as failing to alleviate distress attachment-deactivating strategies are adopted.”
• Intimacy in adolescent friendship: The roles of attachment, coherence, and self-disclosure (2008, background): “Attachment security includes possessing declarative beliefs regarding the manageability of life problems and problems in the social sphere, which play a central role in maintaining emotional stability and personal adjustment (Mikulincer & Shaver, 2005).”
• Attachment, caregiving, and altruism: boosting attachment security increases compassion and helping. (2005, background): “…maintain a positive mood—due to feeling loved, accepted, and cared for by others, and worthy and special in the eyes of attachment figures—which means that secure individuals have less need than insecure individuals to search for additional sources of happiness and joy (Mikulincer & Shaver, 2005).”
• Students’ well-being, coping, academic success, and school climate (2007, background): “Teachers who are interested in students’ learning cannot ignore the fact that emotional relations with others are the first source for self-development (Mikulinger & Shaver, 2005).”
• A Multicomponent Conceptualization of Authenticity: Theory and Research (2006, background): “Finally, aspects of relational authenticity have been studied in research on attachment processes and self‐disclosure (Mikiluncer & Shaver, 2005).”
• Attachment-style differences in the ability to suppress negative thoughts: Exploring the neural correlates (2005, background): “Many supposedly general mental processes documented by social cognition researchers have turned out to be moderated by attachment style (for a review, see Mikulincer and Shaver, 2005 ).”