Adult attachment and feedback-seeking patterns in relationships and work
Adult attachment and feedback-seeking patterns in relationships and work
Adults with different attachment orientations rely on different areas of life to maintain self-views. This paper reports two studies that examine the link between attachment and feedback-seeking patterns in interpersonal and competence-related domains. Participants in Study 1 imagined receiving feedback from a friend. Participants in Study 2 completed dyadic tasks and were promised feedback from interpersonal- and competence-relevant sources. Across both studies, secure individuals consistently chose the most positive feedback. Individuals high in attachment avoidance sought negative feedback over positive, although dismissing-avoidant individuals sought positive hypothetical feedback about autonomy. Study 2 further suggested that highly avoidant individuals were more open to negative feedback than positive feedback and than were secure individuals. Moreover, individuals high in attachment anxiety failed to seek positive interpersonal feedback but pursued interpersonal over competence feedback. Results highlight the role of feedback-seeking in maintenance of positive or negative self-views for adults with different attachment orientations.
attachment, self-views, feedback-seeking, sources of self-esteem
448-464
Hepper, Erica G.
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Carnelley, Katherine B.
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15 March 2010
Hepper, Erica G.
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Carnelley, Katherine B.
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Hepper, Erica G. and Carnelley, Katherine B.
(2010)
Adult attachment and feedback-seeking patterns in relationships and work.
European Journal of Social Psychology, 40, .
(doi:10.1002/ejsp.636).
Abstract
Adults with different attachment orientations rely on different areas of life to maintain self-views. This paper reports two studies that examine the link between attachment and feedback-seeking patterns in interpersonal and competence-related domains. Participants in Study 1 imagined receiving feedback from a friend. Participants in Study 2 completed dyadic tasks and were promised feedback from interpersonal- and competence-relevant sources. Across both studies, secure individuals consistently chose the most positive feedback. Individuals high in attachment avoidance sought negative feedback over positive, although dismissing-avoidant individuals sought positive hypothetical feedback about autonomy. Study 2 further suggested that highly avoidant individuals were more open to negative feedback than positive feedback and than were secure individuals. Moreover, individuals high in attachment anxiety failed to seek positive interpersonal feedback but pursued interpersonal over competence feedback. Results highlight the role of feedback-seeking in maintenance of positive or negative self-views for adults with different attachment orientations.
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Submitted date: 26 February 2009
Accepted/In Press date: 14 April 2009
Published date: 15 March 2010
Keywords:
attachment, self-views, feedback-seeking, sources of self-esteem
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URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/65733
ISSN: 0046-2772
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