Attachment Processes and Health

LaBelle, Onawa; Wardecker, Britney M.; Chopik, William J.; Edelstein, Robin S.

doi:10.1002/9781119057840.ch47

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“…For instance, stressful relationships with friends, family, and children during midlife are associated with troubled sleep patterns, poor health and disability, greater allostatic load (i.e., a multisystem index of biological risk), inflammation, cortisol (i.e., a stress hormone), lower well-being, and even mortality (Ailshire & Burgard, 2012; Bookwala, 2005; Brooks et al, 2014; Donoho, Crimmins, & Seeman, 2013; Friedman, Karlamangla, Almeida, & Seeman, 2012; Greenfield & Marks, 2006; Selcuk & Ong, 2013). Given these associations, isolating the pathways through which attachment orientation, relationships, and changes in both attachment and relationships affect health and well-being is an important next step for future research (Bourassa, Sbarra, & Whisman, 2015; LaBelle, Wardecker, Chopik, & Edelstein, 2017; Pietromonaco, Uchino, & Dunkel Schetter, 2013).…”

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Longitudinal changes in attachment orientation over a 59-year period.

Chopik

Edelstein

Grimm

2019

Journal of Personality and Social Psychology

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Research on individual differences in attachment-and their links to emotion, cognition, and behavior in close relationships-has proliferated over the last several decades. However, the majority of this research has focused on children and young adults. Little is known about mean-level changes in attachment orientation beyond early life, in part due to a dearth of longitudinal data on attachment across the life span. The current study used a Q-Sort-based measure of attachment to examine mean-level changes in attachment orientation from age 13 to 72 using data from the Block and Block Longitudinal Study, the Intergenerational Studies, and the Radcliffe College Class of 1964 Sample (total N ϭ 628). Multilevel modeling was employed to estimate growth curve trajectories across the combined samples. We found that attachment anxiety declined on average with age, particularly during middle age and older adulthood. Attachment avoidance decreased in a linear fashion across the life span. Being in a relationship predicted lower levels of anxiety and avoidance across adulthood. Men were higher in attachment avoidance at each point in the life span. Taken together, these findings provide much-needed insight into how attachment orientations change over long stretches of time. We conclude with a discussion about the challenges of studying attachment dynamics across the life course and across specific transitions.

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Longitudinal changes in attachment orientation over a 59-year period.

Chopik

Edelstein

Grimm

2019

Journal of Personality and Social Psychology

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“…Both dimensions, anxiety and avoidance, can be understood as parts of insecure attachment. Attachment theory has been a useful framework for understanding how romantic relationships contribute to a healthy life (Pietromonaco, Uchino, et al, 2013) and previous literature demonstrates that both anxiety and avoidance have been associated with various health outcomes (LaBelle et al, 2020;Stanton & Campbell, 2014).…”

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“…The present study examines this question with a broader array of markers of cognitive functioning and a larger, more diverse couple sample. Based on both of their links to compromised health (LaBelle et al, 2020), we expected that anxiety and avoidance relate to lower cognitive functioning in couple members.…”

Section: Romantic Attachment Stress and Cognitive Functioning In A La...mentioning

confidence: 99%