Topic
Attachment research, explained
6 open-access attachment studies, each with a flashcard deck and a quiz.
- How Attachment Styles Affect Daily Life
Attachment styles significantly influence daily emotional experiences, self-perception, and social interactions, with insecurely attached individuals being highly sensitive to perceived social closeness.
- How teenage relationships affect mental health and risk-taking
Teenagers who feel secure in their relationships with parents, friends, and romantic partners have better mental health and lower rates of substance use than those with insecure relationships.
- Do people who avoid closeness keep more sugar in their blood?
People who tend to avoid relying on others had higher fasting blood sugar and took more sugary food, especially when reminded of going it alone or after a shared stressful task.
- Are people single because of attachment style or demographics?
In a large representative German sample, whether someone was single depended far more on income, age and education than on their attachment style.
- Do warm, sociable people look longer at scenes of affection?
Women who value close relationships looked more at images of affectionate contact, while those with an avoidant attachment style looked at them less, and this held only for social warmth, not for exciting non-social scenes.
- Does anxious attachment make trainee teachers more stressed?
Trainee teachers who worried more about closeness in relationships reported more stress, partly because they were less sure how to read their own and other people's minds.