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
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Luke, Michelle Anne
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Sedikides, Constantine
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Carnelley, Katherine B.
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June 2012
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), .
(doi:10.1177/0146167211436117).
(PMID:22378830)
Abstract
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
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Southampton Business School
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URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/204753
ISSN: 0146-1672
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