Introduction to the special issue: Nonlinear effects and dynamics in close relationships

Girme, Yuthika U.; Overall, Nickola C.; Simpson, Jeffry A.

doi:10.1177/02654075221119427

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“…Zhang, 2009). Collectively, these findings indicate that examining within-person variation in attachment security could be central to understanding attachment dynamics and how they evolve as relationships progress (see Girme, 2020;Girme et al, 2022).…”

Section: Research On Within-person Fluctuations In Attachment Securitymentioning

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Testing the canalization hypothesis of attachment theory: Examining within-subject variation in attachment security.

Dugan,

Fraley,

Gillath

et al. 2024

Journal of Personality and Social Psychology

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According to the canalization hypothesis of attachment theory (Bowlby, 1973), people's trajectories of attachment security should become increasingly stable and buffered against external pressures as their relationships progress. The present study aimed to examine this hypothesis within the context of romantic relationships. We analyzed longitudinal data collected from 1,741 adults who completed between three and 24 survey assessments (average number of waves analyzed = 6.79, SD = 5.31; median test-retest interval = 35 days). We modeled participants' within-person fluctuations in partner-specific security as a function of their romantic relationship length. Additionally, we examined whether attachment-related events (e.g., conflict with one's partner) predict greater within-person fluctuations in security among people involved in newer versus more established romantic relationships. Our results suggest that people in newer romantic relationships demonstrated greater fluctuations in partner-specific attachment anxiety-both generally and in reaction to attachment-related events-compared to those in well-established romantic relationships. However, neither of these trends was observed for partner-specific attachment avoidance. These results provide partial support for the canalization hypothesis but also suggest that canalization processes may be more nuanced than previously assumed.

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Section: Research On Within-person Fluctuations In Attachment Securitymentioning

confidence: 96%

Testing the canalization hypothesis of attachment theory: Examining within-subject variation in attachment security.

Dugan,

Fraley,

Gillath

et al. 2024

Journal of Personality and Social Psychology

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“…There have been some notable successes in identifying predictors of dynamics in couple interactions (181). New experimental methods have been developed to study the dynamics of dyadic, family, and group interactions (182)(183)(184). Symptom network theory and computational modelling provide new approaches to examining looping dynamics, testing the relative strength of specific linkages and the sensitivity of network dynamics to changes in parameters that can be matched with measurable variables in research and clinical applications [e.g., (185)(186)(187)].…”

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confidence: 99%

A cultural-ecosocial systems view for psychiatry

Gómez-Carrillo

Kirmayer

2023

Front. Psychiatry

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While contemporary psychiatry seeks the mechanisms of mental disorders in neurobiology, mental health problems clearly depend on developmental processes of learning and adaptation through ongoing interactions with the social environment. Symptoms or disorders emerge in specific social contexts and involve predicaments that cannot be fully characterized in terms of brain function but require a larger social-ecological view. Causal processes that result in mental health problems can begin anywhere within the extended system of body-person-environment. In particular, individuals’ narrative self-construal, culturally mediated interpretations of symptoms and coping strategies as well as the responses of others in the social world contribute to the mechanisms of mental disorders, illness experience, and recovery. In this paper, we outline the conceptual basis and practical implications of a hierarchical ecosocial systems view for an integrative approach to psychiatric theory and practice. The cultural-ecosocial systems view we propose understands mind, brain and person as situated in the social world and as constituted by cultural and self-reflexive processes. This view can be incorporated into a pragmatic approach to clinical assessment and case formulation that characterizes mechanisms of pathology and identifies targets for intervention.

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Introduction to the special issue: Nonlinear effects and dynamics in close relationships

Cited by 2 publications

References 36 publications

Testing the canalization hypothesis of attachment theory: Examining within-subject variation in attachment security.

Testing the canalization hypothesis of attachment theory: Examining within-subject variation in attachment security.

A cultural-ecosocial systems view for psychiatry

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