The duality of attachment pattern: Trait attachment and state attachment

Subjects: Psychology >> Personality Psychology submitted time 2020-01-02

贾成龙 刘廷廷 孙莉 秦金亮

Abstract： Traditional attachment theory suggests that individual’s attachment-related psychological and behavioral patterns are relatively stable, but whether in information processes or life-span development, individual’s attachment patterns are both relatively stable and context-sensitive, i.e. attachment patterns have trait-state duality. The interactions between one’s trait attachment and contextual features together sharp individual’s attachment pattern in a particular context. The patterns of interactions between attachment orientations and attachment priming in studies using attachment priming paradigm provide a window to understand the duality of attachment and the relationship between trait and state attachment. And the two-stages model of attachment activation offers a framework for integrating and understanding these patterns. Future studies should optimize the manipulation check of attachment priming and consider the interaction between attachment avoidance and attachment anxiety. More attention should be paid to the attachment differences within the group of people with high attachment anxiety to clarify the patterns of interaction between trait and state attachment. And studies show focus on the stage that the attachment coping strategies impact on the effects of attachment priming to explore the mechanism of the interactions betweentrait and state attachment.

 Hits 3418  Downloads 2085  Comment