General Versus Specific Mental Models of Attachment: Are They Associated with Different Outcomes?

By Catherine Cozzarelli, S. Hoekstra, W. Bylsma. 2000

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Subfields: Demography, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, Social Psychology

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Comparisons of close relationships: An evaluation of relationship quality and patterns of attachment to parents, friends, and romantic partners in young adults. (2012, unknown): “However, some researchers acknowledge that attachment in adulthood may not be a person-specific variable, as proposed in Bowlby’s seminal work, but that people may have multiple mental models of their attachment patterns that may vary in degrees of specificity (Cozzarelli et al., 2000).”
Why brands should fear fearful consumers: How attachment style predicts retaliation (2012, background): “Cummings, 2003; Fraley, Waller, & Brennan, 2000).What does seem clear is that a categorical approach is not equivalent to a dimensional approach (Shaver, Belsky, and Brennan, 2000). Paulssen (2009) and Paulssen and Bagozzi (2007) employ a dimensional measure of the avoidance and anxiety factors and ”
Attachment theory at work: A review and directions for future research (2018, background): “For example, Cozzarelli, Hoekstra, and Bylsma (2000) found that measures of relationship‐specific attachment were better predictors of relationship satisfaction than a person's general attachment style.”
The impact of adult attachment on partner and self-attributions and relationship quality. (2004, background): “Cozzarelli et al. (2000) found that the measurement of attachment mental models specific to relationships was more predictive of behavioral outcomes than the measurement of generalized styles. Partners can hold different mental models for different significant others, and therefore, measurement of m”