Adult Romantic Attachment: Theoretical Developments, Emerging Controversies, and Unanswered Questions

By R. C. Fraley, Phillip R. Shaver, Davis We, Jim Cassandro, Lisa Feldman Barrett, Jennifer Frei, P. Pietromonaco, Rick Robins, Caroline Tan, R. Shaver. 2000

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Subfields: Demography, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, Social Psychology

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The Experiences in Close Relationships-Relationship Structures questionnaire: a method for assessing attachment orientations across relationships. (2011, background): “…are clearly separable and conceptually independent (e.g., see Bartholomew, 1990); the insecurity that a person experiences regarding attachment figures is not the same conceptual “thing” as the strategies he or she uses to regulate his or her affect and behavior (see Fraley & Shaver, 2000).”
Attachment Style and Early Maladaptive Schemas as Mediators of the Relationship between Childhood Emotional Abuse and Intimate Partner Violence (2013, methodology): “For purposes of this study, the RSQ was scored consistent with the two-dimensional view of insecure attachment advocated by Fraley and Bonanno (2004) and Fraley and Shaver (2000).”
Insecure attachment and depressive symptoms: The mediating role of rumination, empathy, and forgiveness (2009, background): “Based on attachment theorizing (e.g., Fraley & Shaver, 2000) and past forgiveness research, we examine rumination and empathy as potential mediators.”
Attachment dimensions and the big five personality traits: Associations and comparative ability to predict relationship quality (2006, methodology): “Adult attachment theory (Fraley & Shaver, 2000; Hazan & Shaver, 1987; Mikulincer & Shaver, 2003) is an extension of Bowlby and Ainsworth’s attachment theory (Ainsworth & Bowlby, 1991; Bowlby, 1969), designed to explain individual diVerences in cognitions, feelings, and behaviors that occur in the…”
Attachment styles and interpersonal approach and avoidance goals in everyday couple interactions (2008, background): “Adult attachment theory (e.g., Fraley & Shaver, 2000; Hazan & Shaver, 1994; Simpson & Rholes, 1998) draws on infant attachment theory (e.g., Ainsworth, Blehar, Waters, & Wall, 1978; Bowlby, 1973, 1982) to explain individual differences in how adults create and sustain satisfying relationships.”
Humility and the Development and Repair of Social Bonds: Two Longitudinal Studies (2013, background): “In addition, higher attachment anxiety suggests that individuals are more sensitive to attachment-related cues, requiring greater attention and energy from partners (Fraley & Shaver, 2000).”
Attachment Theory and Affect Regulation: The Dynamics, Development, and Cognitive Consequences of Attachment-Related Strategies (2003, background): “Most empirical tests of these theoretical ideas have focused on a person’s attachment style—the systematic pattern of relational expectations, emotions, and behavior that results from internalization of a particular history of attachment experiences and consequent reliance on a particular attachment”
Attachment and trait forgivingness: The mediating role of angry rumination (2007, background): “…posited originally by Bowlby (e.g., Carnelley, Pietromonaco, & Jaffe, 1994; Griffin & Bartholomew , 1994), whereas others prefer the behavioral and emotional regulation perspective focused on the avoidant and anxiety dimensions (e.g., Fraley & Shaver, 1998; see Fraley & Shaver, 2000 for a review).”
Adult attachment measures: a 25-year review. (2010, background): “85), and analytically, for their limited statistical power compared with dimensional measures [27].”
Childhood Maltreatment and Psychopathology: Prospective Tests of Attachment, Cognitive Vulnerability, and Stress as Mediating Processes (2005, positive): “…classic work on adult attachment styles, more recent theoretical and empirical research in the attachment literature (Brennan, Clark, & Shaver, 1998; Fraley & Shaver, 2000; Griffin & Bartholomew, 1994) has shown that individual differences in attachment security can be represented by a single…”
An attachment-theoretical approach to compassion and altruism. (2005, background): “In studies of adolescents and adults, tests of these theoretical ideas have generally focused on a person’s attachment style – a systematic pattern of relational expectations, emotions, and behaviors conceptualized as residues of particular kinds of attachment history (Fraley & Shaver, 2000).”
Adult Attachment, Perceived Discrimination Based on Sexual Orientation, and Depression in Gay Males: Examining the Mediation and Moderation Effects (2006, background): “In general, there is a consensus that two continuous attachment dimensions (i.e., anxiety and avoidance) are the best way to assess adult attachment (e.g., Brennan, Clark, & Shaver, 1998; Fraley & Shaver, 2000; Fraley & Waller, 1998).”
The Space Between Us: A Social-Functional Emotions View of Ambivalent and Indifferent Workplace Relationships (2017, background): “…patterns of relational expectations, emotions, and behaviors resulting from experiences with attachment figures in early childhood—influence their goals, cognitions, emotions, and behaviors across all interpersonal situations (e.g., Fraley & Shaver, 2000), including work (Hazan & Shaver, 1990).”