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Your love lifts me higher! The energizing quality of secure relationships

Your love lifts me higher! The energizing quality of secure relationships
Your love lifts me higher! The energizing quality of secure relationships
Three studies tested and confirmed the hypothesis that secure attachment relationships lead to feelings of security and energy, as well as willingness to explore. In Study 1, priming a secure attachment relationship increased felt energy. In Studies 2 and 3, felt energy mediated the effect of (primed) secure attachment relationships on willingness to explore. In Study 3, the effect of (primed) secure attachment relationships on felt energy and willingness to explore was independent of general positive affect. Secure attachments energize partners, thus enabling exploration.
relationships, attachment, security, energy, exploration
0146-1672
721-733
Luke, Michelle Anne
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Sedikides, Constantine
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Carnelley, Katherine B.
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Luke, Michelle Anne
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Sedikides, Constantine
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Carnelley, Katherine B.
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Luke, Michelle Anne, Sedikides, Constantine and Carnelley, Katherine B. (2012) Your love lifts me higher! The energizing quality of secure relationships. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 38 (6), 721-733. (doi:10.1177/0146167211436117). (PMID:22378830)

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Three studies tested and confirmed the hypothesis that secure attachment relationships lead to feelings of security and energy, as well as willingness to explore. In Study 1, priming a secure attachment relationship increased felt energy. In Studies 2 and 3, felt energy mediated the effect of (primed) secure attachment relationships on willingness to explore. In Study 3, the effect of (primed) secure attachment relationships on felt energy and willingness to explore was independent of general positive affect. Secure attachments energize partners, thus enabling exploration.

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e-pub ahead of print date: 29 February 2012
Published date: June 2012
Keywords: relationships, attachment, security, energy, exploration
Organisations: Southampton Business School

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Local EPrints ID: 204753
URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/204753
ISSN: 0146-1672
PURE UUID: f0074d7a-ab26-423c-8df2-e66df046c8d6
ORCID for Constantine Sedikides: ORCID iD orcid.org/0000-0003-4036-889X
ORCID for Katherine B. Carnelley: ORCID iD orcid.org/0000-0003-4064-8576

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Date deposited: 29 Nov 2011 15:37
Last modified: 15 Mar 2024 03:07

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Author: Michelle Anne Luke

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