Attachment, breakup strategies, and associated outcomes: The effects of security enhancement on the selection of breakup strategies

Collins, Tara J.; Gillath, Omri

doi:10.1016/j.jrp.2012.01.008

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“…Each participant completed the Mach IV (Christie & Geis, 1970) and the Break up Strategies Questionnaire (Collins & Gillath, 2012) in relation to the romantic partner that they most recently decided to break up with.…”

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“…A range of strategies may be employed to end a relationship (Baxter, 1982(Baxter, , 1984, which vary according the level of compassion displayed towards the partner and the level of directness (Baxter, 1985;Sprecher, Zimmerman, & Abrahams, 2010). Collins and Gillath (2012) identify seven break up strategies: avoidance / withdrawal (e.g. avoiding contact with the partner); positive tone / self-blame (e.g.…”

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“…suggesting that the break up is temporary). A range of factors may influence the selection of a break up strategy such as the nature of the relationship (Banks, Altendorf, Greene, & Cody, 1987;Collins & Gillath, 2012) which subsequently impact the partner's reaction (Lambert & Hughes, 2010). Despite the frequency with which relationships are dissolved and the consequences of this dissolution, few studies have considered the manner in which individual differences (rather than characteristics of the relationship itself) influence the selection of a break up strategy or break up related distress.…”

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“…The Break up Strategies Questionnaire (Collins & Gillath, 2012) is a 43 item measure of the strategies employed to break up with a partner. Participants respond to each item on a 7 point likert scale (1 = did not use strategy at all to 7 = definitely used this strategy).…”

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“…Extending existing work, we used experimental methods for the first time to manipulate attachment (in)security, thought to affect people's internal working models of the other. Priming attachment has been successfully used to study outcomes such as break up strategies (Collins & Gillath, 2012), sexual fantasies (Birnbaum, Simpson, Weisberg, Barnea, & Assulin-Simhon, 2012), and sexual strategies (Gillath & Schachner, 2006). In Study 1, we examined the effects of such manipulations on self-reported attitudes towards condom use.…”

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The Causal Effects of Relational Security and Insecurity on Condom Use Attitudes and Acquisition Behavior

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Gillath

2015

Arch Sex Behav

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Research on attachment and condom use has been limited to correlational studies of selfreport measures, yielding inconsistent results. Here, we examined the causal effects of attachment priming on self-reported condom use attitudes and an observational measure of condom acquisition behavior. In three experiments, participants were exposed to one of three attachment primes (security, anxiety, or avoidance) or a control prime. For Study 1, participants in the security and anxiety conditions preferred condom non-use to a greater extent, compared to participants in the avoidance condition. This effect was replicated in Study 2, and was mediated by perceptions of sexual health threat. In Study 3, the effect of security priming on condom acquisition behavior was eliminated through the use of a framing manipulation, though, the effect of primed attachment on condom use attitudes was not significant. A Meta-Analysis, however, revealed that the predicted effects of attachment priming were consistent across the three studies, supporting the role of attachment in evaluations of condom use. Priming attachment security or anxiety lead participants to perceive their sexual partners as less of a sexual health threat, resulting in a devaluation of condom use. Primed security also reduced condom acquisition behavior, though this negative effect eliminated by framing condoms as protecting a partner's sexual health. Overall, these studies suggest that relational factors, such as attachment, require greater consideration when studying sexual health and designing interventions.

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Attachment and Romantic Relationship Dissolution: A Case Study of Family Therapy

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Park

Park³

2020

ANZ J of Family Therapy

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This study explores how attachment relationships and traumatic events affected an unmarried adult's relationship dissolutions as well as a therapeutic intervention. Thematic Analysis was applied to ten sessions of family therapy utilising counselling transcripts, video recordings, and counselling logs. The client's experiences of attachment relationship and traumatic events included an anxious mother, inconsistent parenting in infancy, physical and emotional abuse and unempathetic parents (the absence of a secure base), parental conflict, and divorce. This is described in terms of the absence of an internal working model (the aggravation of an insecure attachment system), and an anxious attachment style and relationship dissolution in adulthood (the fixation of attachment pattern). Effective therapeutic intervention strategies included providing a secure base, mentalising and facilitating a relational experience to help the client resolve their attachment problems.

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Attachment, breakup strategies, and associated outcomes: The effects of security enhancement on the selection of breakup strategies

Cited by 83 publications

References 46 publications

Machiavellianism and romantic relationship dissolution

Machiavellianism and romantic relationship dissolution

The Causal Effects of Relational Security and Insecurity on Condom Use Attitudes and Acquisition Behavior

Attachment and Romantic Relationship Dissolution: A Case Study of Family Therapy

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