Attachment anxiety, tracking accuracy, and biased memory of prior relationship evaluations

Chang, Valerie T.; Overall, Nickola C.

doi:10.1111/pere.12417

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“…Attachment anxiety has been described as a hyperactivating strategy , which involves excessive distress and hypervigilance to a partner's behavior in response to signs of threat. In addition to more accurately detecting deceit (Ein-Dor & Perry, 2014) and emotion (Simpson et al, 2011), and better remembering relationship quality (Chang & Overall, 2022), people who are higher in attachment anxiety appear to be more accurate, overall, in their perceptions of their partner's climate behavior, perhaps because they are often paying closer attention. It is unclear, however, why accuracy was not also moderated by attachment avoidance.…”

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“…Hypervigilance among the anxiously attached has been demonstrated for recognition of attachment figures' names (Mikulincer, Gillath, & Shaver, 2002) and the onset and offset of emotional displays (Fraley, Niedenthal, Marks, Brumbaugh, & Vicary, 2006). Moreover, attachment anxiety has been associated with greater accuracy for detecting deceit in non-romantic contexts (Ein-Dor & Perr, 2014), and with more accurate memories of relationship quality (Chang & Overall, 2022), and greater empathic accuracy during a relationally threatening discussion (Simpson, Kim, Fillo, Ickes, Rholes, Oriña, & Winterheld, 2011) in a romantic context. This accuracy may plausibly extend to increased attention to a romantic partner's thoughts, feelings, and behavior more generally, and thus an increased accuracy in one's understanding of a partner's climate beliefs/behavior.…”

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Perceptions and correspondence of climate change beliefs and behavior among romantic couples

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Journal of Environmental Psychology

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Perceptions and correspondence of climate change beliefs and behavior among romantic couples

Goldberg

Carmichael

Lacroix

et al. 2022

Journal of Environmental Psychology

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“…Tracking accuracy reflects the degree to which memory of depressive symptoms accurately tracks relative levels of depressive symptoms, such that people who previously experienced higher versus lower depressive symptoms are those that later report memories involving higher versus lower depressive symptoms (West & Kenny, 2011). Prior studies reveal significant tracking accuracy in memory of emotions by showing that people's memory of negative emotional states are significantly associated with the negative emotional states they reported experiencing at the earlier time points (Chang et al, 2018;Chang & Overall, 2022a, 2022b.…”

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Holiday or hell? Emotion regulation and memory of depressive symptoms during lockdown.

Chang,

Overall

2024

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The ongoing repercussions of the COVID-19 pandemic provide an unparalleled context to examine how distressing events are remembered. Prior theory and research suggest that (a) distress during lockdowns may fade and be remembered as less distressing, or remain salient and be remembered as more distressing, than initially experienced and (b) emotional suppression and cognitive reappraisal may predict these memory biases. We test these possibilities by assessing depressive symptoms and emotion regulation during two lockdowns: at the start of the pandemic (Lockdown 2020) and 17 months later (Lockdown 2021) in a sample of parents with young children (N = 272). We assessed tracking accuracy, directional bias, and projection bias in memory of depressive symptoms in Lockdown 2020, and the moderating role of emotion regulation at the time of encoding (Lockdown 2020) and recall (Lockdown 2021). People experiencing more depressive symptoms later in the pandemic (2021) remembered the start of the pandemic (2020) to involve more depressive symptoms than initially experienced (projection bias). People engaging in greater emotional suppression at recall (2021) were less likely to project their current depressive symptoms onto memory of the prior lockdown (lower projection bias) and remembered feeling lower depressive symptoms than initially experienced (underestimation directional bias). By contrast, people engaging in cognitive reappraisal at recall (2021) remembered feeling greater depressive symptoms than they initially experienced (overestimation directional bias). These unexpected results indicate that emotion regulation may shape memory of emotion during real-life challenges differently than patterns observed in lab-based research and may reflect helpful coping with life events.

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“…Parent relationship quality and parenting style significantly impact family harmony and influence the children's later development. According to a recent study on relationship evaluation by Chang and Overall, people with less secure feelings in their relationship are more negatively biased when recalling their relationship quality [10]. Generally, the studies suggest that insecure adult attachment people are more inclined to memorize adverse depressing events in their relationship, evaluate the quality of their relationship more negatively, and have more negative emotions during their relationship, thus decreasing their relationship satisfaction.…”

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The Relationship between Fathers Parenting Behavior and Adult Attachment

Chen

2023

LNEP

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Parenting behaviors are based on the Internal Working Model (IWM), which people acquire through attachment experiences in childhood. Bowlby and Ainsworth developed the fundamental model of childhood attachment. Later, researchers extended the original attachment theory and measures of adult attachment to study adult attachment bonds. The attachment styles of adults and their parenting behaviors are closely related. There is a connection between a parents adult attachment style and parenting style, as they have varying levels of demandingness in their IWM. Nonetheless, when fathers and mothers experience marital conflict or maltreatment, there is a difference between them. As most previous research concentrated on mothers, it is important to investigate and gain a deeper understanding of the relationship between the fathers adult attachment and fathers parenting style, considering various marital factors. Father with an insecure adult attachment tend to adopt approaches of withdrawal or authoritarian control in parenting, especially in the case of conflict. A secure adult attachment of father is essential for the child to develop a secure attachment. A better understanding of the fathers parenting style can help improve family intervention programs. This review can provide some insights for future research regarding the role of father in a family.

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Attachment anxiety, tracking accuracy, and biased memory of prior relationship evaluations

Cited by 6 publications

References 40 publications

Perceptions and correspondence of climate change beliefs and behavior among romantic couples

Perceptions and correspondence of climate change beliefs and behavior among romantic couples

Holiday or hell? Emotion regulation and memory of depressive symptoms during lockdown.

The Relationship between Fathers Parenting Behavior and Adult Attachment

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