Attachment-related avoidance and the social and agentic content of nostalgic memories
Attachment-related avoidance and the social and agentic content of nostalgic memories
The reported research tested whether the social and agentic content of nostalgic memories varies as a function of attachment-related avoidance. We measured individual differences in attachment-related avoidance and anxiety and coded the interpersonal and agentic content of nostalgic and non-nostalgic narratives. Results revealed that nostalgic (relative to non-nostalgic) narratives contained more social content and that this link was not moderated by attachment-related avoidance. There was a significant association between attachment-related avoidance and attachment-related social content in nostalgic, but not non-nostalgic, past narratives. There was also a significant association between attachment-related avoidance and agency content in nostalgic, but not non-nostalgic narratives.
agency, attachment-related avoidance, attachment style, nostalgia
406-413
Abeyta, A
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Routledge, Clay
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Roylance, C
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Wildschut, Tim
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Sedikides, Constantine
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Roylance, C
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Abeyta, A, Routledge, Clay, Roylance, C, Wildschut, Tim and Sedikides, Constantine
(2015)
Attachment-related avoidance and the social and agentic content of nostalgic memories.
Journal of Social and Personal Relationships, 32 (3), .
(doi:10.1177/0265407514533770).
Abstract
The reported research tested whether the social and agentic content of nostalgic memories varies as a function of attachment-related avoidance. We measured individual differences in attachment-related avoidance and anxiety and coded the interpersonal and agentic content of nostalgic and non-nostalgic narratives. Results revealed that nostalgic (relative to non-nostalgic) narratives contained more social content and that this link was not moderated by attachment-related avoidance. There was a significant association between attachment-related avoidance and attachment-related social content in nostalgic, but not non-nostalgic, past narratives. There was also a significant association between attachment-related avoidance and agency content in nostalgic, but not non-nostalgic narratives.
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Published date: 5 May 2015
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agency, attachment-related avoidance, attachment style, nostalgia
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