Attachment Security Priming: A Meta-Analysis

Gillath, Omri; Karantzas, Gery C.; Romano, Daniel; Karantzas, Kellie

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“…Second, we did not use a manipulation check to verify the effectiveness of priming. On the one hand, the effectiveness of the supraliminally administered priming procedure has been established by previous studies ( Bartz and Lydon, 2004 ; Mikulincer and Shaver, 2007 ; Mikulincer et al, 2011 ; Wu et al, 2020 ; for a review, see Gillath and Karantzas, 2019 , also see a recent meta-analysis, Gillath et al, 2022 ). On the other hand, despite the common usage of manipulate check in psychological research in assessing the effectiveness of a treatment, some researchers argued that it would cause some problems, such as motivating the participants to guess the researcher’s hypothesis, changing physiological responses, and changing the thinking way and task performance ( Hauser and Schwarz, 2015 ; Fayant et al, 2017 ; Hauser et al, 2018 ).…”

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Attachment Security Priming Delayed Negative Information-Related Attentional Disengagement Among Anxiously Attached Individuals: Evidence From Behavioral and Functional MRI Experiments

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Although attachment security has been found to attenuate people’s experience of unpleasant information, how it modulates the attentional process toward such information remains unknown. The present study examined this issue by employing the dot-probe task in functional MRI. After completing the Experiences in Close Relationships-Revised questionnaire (ECR-R), 39 participants were asked to complete the dot-probe task in two conditions: the attachment security priming condition and neutral priming condition. The behavioral results revealed that individuals with high level of attachment anxiety exhibited larger attention disengagement from negative traits in the security priming condition than in the control condition. Correspondingly, the brain regions involved in attention regulation and shifting, such as the posterior cingulate and bilateral parietal area, were less activated among high anxiously attached individuals in the security priming condition. These results suggest a role of attachment security priming in regulating the emotional response in anxiously attached individuals during the attentional stage.

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Attachment Security Priming Delayed Negative Information-Related Attentional Disengagement Among Anxiously Attached Individuals: Evidence From Behavioral and Functional MRI Experiments

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“…Such studies are common in samples of undergraduate students and adults. For example, a recent meta-analysis showed that security priming induces prosociality ( k = 15, r = .26), and prosocial qualities and inclinations ( k = 27, r = .31; Gillath et al, 2022). Applications of security priming in children may be important steps forward in understanding the link between attachment security and prosociality.…”

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A meta-analysis of child–parent attachment in early childhood and prosociality.

Deneault¹,

Hammond²,

Madigan³

2023

Developmental Psychology

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Although numerous individual studies have attempted to link child-parent attachment and prosociality, a systematic picture of that relationship requires a meta-analytic approach that considers different dimensions of prosociality and potential moderators. The current meta-analysis examined 41 studies drawn primarily from North America and Europe and published between 1978 to 2020. Child age ranged from 12 to 53 months at the assessment of child-parent attachment and 12 to 108 months at the assessment of prosociality. Across 35 studies (100 effect sizes, N = 4,611), child-mother attachment security and child prosociality were significantly associated (r = .19, 95% CI [.14, .23]). No moderators were identified. Exploratory estimates were also derived for subtypes of child-mother attachment insecurity. Across six studies (eight effect sizes, N = 402), child-father attachment security was significantly associated with prosociality (r = .11, 95% CI [.02, .23]). The magnitude of effect sizes did not differ based on parent gender. The discussion considers areas of growth for attachment and prosociality research.

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“…Support and training skills interventions considering the interlinked nature of attachment orientations with physical proximity could identify and help insecurely attached caregivers in coping with the specific care demands of proximal living arrangements—such as co-residence—to alleviate burden. In addition, highly avoidant caregivers who live with the care recipient or close to them may benefit from interventions which aim to increase attachment security and comfort with physical closeness [ 31 , 83 ]. Security-enhancing interventions may be also beneficial for anxiously attached caregivers, given our finding that attachment anxiety is associated with caregiver burden.…”

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Extremely Distant and Incredibly Close: Physical Proximity, Emotional Attachment and Caregiver Burden

Bei

Mashevich

Rotem-Mindali

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IJERPH

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Informal caregivers are at risk of caregiver burden, and physical proximity to the care recipient may add to this negative outcome. Yet, individual differences in emotional proximity to the care recipient such as attachment orientations may contribute to caregivers’ comfort towards different degrees of physical proximity, leading to varying levels of burden. The current study is the first to explore the role of physical proximity on caregiver burden as moderated by attachment orientations. A sample of 162 Israeli caregivers who are active users of the Camoni website completed our online survey. Sociodemographic characteristics, including a self-reported questionnaire on the physical proximity to the care recipient, were collected. Caregivers’ attachment orientations were assessed with the Experiences in Close Relationships–Relationship Structures questionnaire. Caregiver burden was assessed using the Caregiver Burden Inventory. Multiple regression and simple slope analyses were conducted. Attachment anxiety and avoidance were positively associated with burden, whereas physical proximity was not. Attachment avoidance, but not attachment anxiety, moderated the association between physical proximity and caregiver burden, with caregivers who live closer to their care recipient experiencing greater burden when high levels of avoidance were present. Our findings reveal the complex dynamics between attachment orientations and physical proximity in the context of informal care, highlighting the need for better integration of these two interlinked constructs in both care research and practice.

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Attachment Security Priming: A Meta-Analysis

Cited by 24 publications

References 134 publications

Attachment Security Priming Delayed Negative Information-Related Attentional Disengagement Among Anxiously Attached Individuals: Evidence From Behavioral and Functional MRI Experiments

Attachment Security Priming Delayed Negative Information-Related Attentional Disengagement Among Anxiously Attached Individuals: Evidence From Behavioral and Functional MRI Experiments

A meta-analysis of child–parent attachment in early childhood and prosociality.

Extremely Distant and Incredibly Close: Physical Proximity, Emotional Attachment and Caregiver Burden

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