کد مقاله | کد نشریه | سال انتشار | مقاله انگلیسی | نسخه تمام متن |
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951277 | 1475948 | 2014 | 10 صفحه PDF | دانلود رایگان |
• We model stressors and attachment security over six months following job loss.
• We found evidence for both the stress-effects and stress-generation hypotheses.
• More stressors were associated with prospective decreases in attachment security.
• Lower attachment security was associated with prospective increases in stressors.
• Adult attachment security operates in a dynamic and changing, not fixed, manner.
This study addressed two questions concerning the interplay between adult romantic attachment and exposure to stressful circumstances: do stressful events predict fluctuation in romantic attachment during a period of unemployment, and does attachment measured at one point predict later changes in stressors? Stressors and attachment were measured over a six month period following involuntary job loss for a sample of 426 adults. Autoregressive models found evidence for both the stress-effects and stress-generation hypotheses, with more stressors associated with prospective decreases in attachment, and lower attachment associated with prospective increases in stressors. These findings support a more dynamic formulation of the interplay between attachment and exposure to stressors over the months following job loss.
Journal: Journal of Research in Personality - Volume 50, June 2014, Pages 23–32