Attachment Theory and Concern for Others'Welfare: Evidence That Activation of the Sense of Secure Base Promotes Endorsement of Self-Transcendence Values

By Mario Mikulincer, Omri Gillath, Yael Sapir-Lavid, Erez Yaakobi, K. Arias, Liron Tal-Aloni, Gili Bor. 2003

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An attachment-theoretical approach to compassion and altruism. (2005, background): “In an attempt to examine more directly the contribution of attachment security to altruistic helping behavior, we (Mikulincer et al., 2003b) recently assessed individual differences in engagement in voluntary altruistic activities, such as caring for the elderly or donating blood, as well as…”
Basic values: How they motivate and inhibit prosocial behavior. (2010, unknown): “ Mikulincer et al. (2003) also reported that chronic attachment anxiety did not relate to”
Social Foundations of the Capacity for Mindfulness: An Attachment Perspective (2007, background): “For example, attachment security is related to compassion and altruism ( Mikulincer, Shaver, Gillath, & Nitzberg, 2005 ), more humane values ( Mikulincer, Gillath, Sapir-Lavid, Yaakobi, Arias, Tal-Aloni, & Bor, 2003 ), and greater tolerance of outgroup members ( Mikulincer & Shaver, 2001 ).”
Attachment Security, Compassion, and Altruism (2005, background): “In three experiments (Mikulincer et al., 2003), enhancing attachment security (asking participants to recall personal memories of supportive care or exposing them unobtrusively to a picture of a supportive interaction), as compared with enhancing positive affect or exposing participants to a…”
Attachment, caregiving, and volunteering: Placing volunteerism in an attachment‐theoretical framework (2005, methodology): “In other recent studies (Mikulincer et al., 2003), experimentally engendered security increased the endorsement of two ‘‘self-transcendence values’’ (Schwartz, 1992), benevolence and universalism, which encourage caregiving.”
Deciding to Persist: Adversity, Values, and Entrepreneurs’ Decision Policies (2013, background): “Individuals who highly value self-transcendence will thrive on positive affiliation with others (Mikulincer et al., 2003).”
Boosting Attachment Security to Promote Mental Health, Prosocial Values, and Inter-Group Tolerance (2007, background): “Moreover, although attachment style is often conceptualized as a single global orientation toward close relationships, and can definitely be measured as such, a person's attachment orientation is actually rooted in a complex cognitive and affective network that includes many different episodic, cont”
Empathy from infancy to adolescence: An attachment perspective on the development of individual differences (2017, background): “…an association between security and empathy for others in distress (e.g., Britton & Fuendeling, 2005; Gillath, Shaver, & Mikulincer, 2005; Joireman, Needham, & Cummings, 2002; Mikulincer et al., 2001, 2003, 2005; see Mikulincer & Shaver, 2005, 2015; and Shaver et al., 2016, for reviews).”
The Role of Psychological and Developmental Science in Efforts to Improve Teacher Quality (2010, background): “Individuals who are secure are low on anxiety and avoidance and thus show comfort in being close to and relying on others, particularly in times of stress (Mikulincer et al., 2003).”
Attachment, caregiving, and altruism: boosting attachment security increases compassion and helping. (2005, background): “In another set of studies (Mikulincer et al., 2003), an experimentally boosted sense of security increased the endorsement of values that encourage caring for others, including strangers.”