Boosting Attachment Security to Promote Mental Health, Prosocial Values, and Inter-Group Tolerance

By Mario Mikulincer, Phillip R. Shaver. 2007

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Social Support and Money as Pain Management Mechanisms (2008, background): “An individual's attachment style is formed during early interactions with attachment figures and it is fairly stable over time ( Cassidy & Shaver, 1999 ; Mikulincer & Shaver, 2007a , 2007b ).”
Experienced Therapists' Approach to Psychotherapy for Adults With Attachment Avoidance or Attachment Anxiety (2009, result): “This process, shown as the wavering line in the working phase portion of Figure 1, is similar to Safran and Muran’s (2000) concept of working alliance rupture and repair.”
The Suffocation of Marriage: Climbing Mount Maslow Without Enough Oxygen (2014, background): “Contemporary spouses have a smaller number of con-ﬁdants —signiﬁcant others in whom they can conﬁde intimate or signiﬁcant information, akin to “attach-ment ﬁgures” (Bowlby, 1969; Mikulincer & Shaver, 2007)—than did spouses in previous eras.”
Authentic Leadership and Employee Well-Being: The Mediating Role of Attachment Insecurity (2015, background): “…psychology literature in order to investigate the effects of some factors including, relationship quality (Collins and Read 1990), self-esteem (Bylsma et al. 1997), distress (Wei et al. 2005), and well-being (Mikulincer and Shaver 2007; Leak and Cooney 2001; LaGuardia et al. 2000) in relationships.”
Adult Attachment Orientations, Stress, and Romantic Relationships (2012, background): “Review of Diathesis–Stress Attachment Studies During the past two decades, several studies have documented diathesis–stress attachment effects (see Mikulincer & Shaver, 2007a, 2007b for reviews).”
Using Technology to Connect in Romantic Relationships: Effects on Attachment, Relationship Satisfaction, and Stability in Emerging Adults (2013, background): “Adult love is representational, and even a mental image of a strong attachment relationship can engender felt security (Mikulincer & Shaver, 2007); therefore, even communication instigated through technology connections may help emerging adults feel that their romantic partners are accessible,…”
A lifespan perspective on attachment and care for others: Empathy, altruism, and prosocial behavior (2016, background): “People who score high on attachment anxiety tend not to believe they deserve others’ kindness and worry that they will not be able to reciprocate adequately or meet a generous person’s needs and expectations (Mikulincer & Shaver, 2007a).”
Leader and follower attachment styles: Implications for authentic leader–follower relationships (2014, methodology): “Recently, experimental psychologists have devised reliable means of temporarily manipulating attachment styles through a priming methodology (for reviews of this methodology, see Gillath, Selcuk, & Shaver, 2008; Mikulincer, 2007).”
Individual Differences in Self-Compassion: The Role of Attachment and Experiences of Parenting in Childhood (2015, background): “Attachment avoidance, on the other hand, refers to the deactivation of the attachment system, and is associated with the tendency to suppress or deny attachment needs (Mikulincer & Shaver, 2007a; Shaver & Mikulincer, 2009).”
An attachment perspective on psychopathology (2012, background): “These research techniques, which we (11) refer to as “security priming”, include subliminal pictures suggesting attachment-figure availability, subliminal names of people designated by participants as security-enhancing attachment figures, guided imagery highlighting the availability and supportiven”
Relational Aspects of Mindfulness: Implications for the Practice of Marriage and Family Therapy (2010, background): “Further, relationship satisfaction has been closely tied to life satisfaction and psychological health (Mikulincer and Shaver 2007; Peterson and Park 2007; Shapiro and Keyes 2008).”
Danger, Disease, and the Nature of Prejudice(s) (2012, background): “We don't want to suggest that all the psychological benefits associated with attachment security (and there are many; Mikulincer & Shaver, 2007) can be reduced simply to invulnerability to threat.”
Moving Toward a Secure Attachment Style: Can Repeated Security Priming Help? (2008, methodology): “Finally, neither attachment anxiety nor avoidant attachment moderated the effects of security priming, a finding that is also compatible with previous security priming studies (Mikulincer & Shaver, 2007a).”
Social Foundations of the Capacity for Mindfulness: An Attachment Perspective (2007, background): “Our recent overview of the attachment literature (Mikulincer & Shaver, 2007) shows that attachment security, whether measured via selfreports or coded clinical interviews, is related to these same variables.”