The Attachment Behavioral System in Adulthood: Activation, Psychodynamics, and Interpersonal Processes.

By Mario Mikulincer, Phillip R. Shaver. 2003

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Subfields: Clinical Psychology, Demography, Social Psychology

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The Political Consequences of Perceived Threat and Felt Insecurity (2007, positive): “Typically, researchers examine the impact of attachment style on coping with various threats (for a review, see Mikulincer and Shaver 2003).”
Destination attractiveness and destination attachment: The mediating role of tourists' attitude (2016, positive): “Second, rooted in a complex network of mental representations, we proposethattourists' attitudeacts asnecessary and suf ﬁ cientmediating variable between their perceived attractiveness of a destination and their formation of destination attachment (Mikulincer & Shaver, 2003).”
The feedforward interview (2010, positive): “For example, Rechter (2009) hypothesized that reactions to FFI will be moderated by attachment style (Mikulincer & Shaver, 2003).”
Predictors of Anxiety and Depression in Emerging Adulthood (2009, background): “The work of Mikulincer and his colleagues (Berant et al. 2005; Mikulincer et al. 2004; Mikulincer and Shaver 2003 ) underscores the tendency of adults with high levels of attachment avoidance to suppress negative attachment-related thoughts, while maintaining a defensive self-image in dealing with ”
Withstanding moral disengagement: Attachment security as an ethical intervention ☆ (2014, background): “As Mikulincer and Shaver (2003) describe, “In (Bowlby's) view, a combination of attachment-unrelated sources of threat and lack of access to an attachment figure compounds distress and triggers the highest level of attachment-level activation” (p. 60).”
Attachment, sexual experience, and sexual pressure in romantic relationships: A dyadic approach (2007, background): “In the most recent models of romantic attachment (e.g., Mikulincer & Shaver, 2003, 2007), avoidance is characterized as a strategic ‘‘deactivation’’ of the attachment system, which reduces a person’s feelings of vulnerability to rejection or abandonment and reliance on others for comfort and…”
Intimacy in adolescent friendship: The roles of attachment, coherence, and self-disclosure (2008, methodology): “measure according to Mikulincer and Shaver (2003) in this study we also used a continuous method for evaluating the anxiety and avoidance dimensions of attachment.”
Place attachment and natural hazard risk: Research review and agenda (2016, background): “In addition to the cultural context, ‘separation-distress anxiety’ (Mikulincer & Shaver, 2003) may influence individuals to maintain proximity to a risky place to manage distressed relationships, similar to what happens in interpersonal relationship situations.”
Adult attachment, perceived stress, and PTSD among civilians exposed to ongoing terrorist attacks in Southern Israel (2009, background): “…focused on the roles of attachment anxiety and Attachment Avoidance (e.g., Mikulincer & Shaver, 2003; Mikulincer & Shaver, 2007) in emotional self-regulation (e.g., Mikulincer & Shaver, 2003) and in individuals’ responses to situations of distress (Mikulincer, Birnbaum, Woddis, & Nachmias, 2000).”
“I can’t get no satisfaction”: Insecure attachment, inhibited sexual communication, and sexual dissatisfaction (2006, background): “This indicates, once again, that attachment-anxious individuals monitor their partners and their interactions with partners for signs of deficient or declining physical and emotional availability, closeness, and support (Mikulincer & Shaver, 2003; Simpson, Campbell, & Weisberg, 2006).”
Adult Attachment Orientations, Stress, and Romantic Relationships (2012, background): “This process should be facilitated by their use of avoidant/deactivating coping strategies (Mikulincer & Shaver, 2003), which defensively suppress conscious awareness of their distress, attachment needs, and attachment behaviors, at least in the short-run (as for the longrun, see Berant,…”
Attachment theory and emotions in close relationships: Exploring the attachment-related dynamics of emotional reactions to relational events (2005, background): “These concomitants of attachment-system hyperactivation account for many of the psychological correlates of attachment anxiety (Mikulincer & Shaver, 2003).”
An attachment and behavioral systems perspective on social support (2009, methodology): “…as the major psychological benefit of receiving others’ support in times of need, we created a model of attachment-system functioning in adulthood (Mikulincer & Shaver, 2003, 2007a; Shaver & Mikulincer, 2007) that portrays felt security as a foundation for what Fredrickson (2001) calls a…”