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Attachment Style as a Predictor of Adult Romantic Relationships
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Questionnaire measures of attachment style, attachment history, beliefs about relationships, self-esteem, limerence, loving, love addiction, and love styles were administered to 374 undergraduates. Attachment style was related in theoretically expected ways to attachment history and to beliefs about relationships. Securely attached Ss reported relatively positive perceptions of their early family relationships. Avoidant Ss were most likely to report childhood separation from their mother and to express mistrust of others. Anxious-ambivalent subjects were less likely than avoidant Ss to see their father as supportive, and they reported a lack of independence and a desire for deep commitment in relationships. The self-esteem measure and each of the scales measuring forms of love were factor analyzed separately. Analyses based on scale scores derived from the resulting factors indicated that attachment style was also strongly related to self-esteem and to the various forms of love discussed in other theoretical frameworks. The results suggest that attachment theory offers a useful perspective on adult love relationships.
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“secure individuals are comfortable with intimacy, avoidant individuals strive to minimise it and maintain distance, anxious individuals seek it excessively, and ambivalent individuals oscillate between desire and withdrawal (Bartholomew & Horowitz 1991;Feeney & Noller 1990;Spielmann et al. 2013).”
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“Securely attached individuals, by contrast, may rely primarily on human partners (Feeney & Noller 1990) and may not convert loneliness into artificial intimacy at all, treating AI as supplemental tools rather than substitutive partners.”
From Not a Silver Bullet for Loneliness: How Attachment and Age Shape Intimacy with AI Companions (2026) · cites this paper as Feeney & Noller 1990
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“secure individuals are comfortable with intimacy, avoidant individuals strive to minimise it and maintain distance, anxious individuals seek it excessively, and ambivalent individuals oscillate between desire and withdrawal (Bartholomew & Horowitz 1991;Feeney & Noller 1990;Spielmann et al. 2013).”
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“This finding aligns with our hypotheses but inverts expectations from human attachment theory, which predicts greater intimacy among secure individuals and lower intimacy among avoidant individuals under conditions of loneliness (Ainsworth & Bowlby 1991;Feeney & Noller 1990).”
From Not a Silver Bullet for Loneliness: How Attachment and Age Shape Intimacy with AI Companions (2026) · cites this paper as Feeney & Noller 1990
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“secure individuals are comfortable with intimacy, avoidant individuals strive to minimise it and maintain distance, anxious individuals seek it excessively, and ambivalent individuals oscillate between desire and withdrawal (Bartholomew & Horowitz 1991;Feeney & Noller 1990;Spielmann et al. 2013).”
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“Anxiously attached individuals seek reassurance but are sensitive to inconsistency (Feeney & Noller 1990), potentially fostering more volatile engagement.”
From Not a Silver Bullet for Loneliness: How Attachment and Age Shape Intimacy with AI Companions (2026) · cites this paper as Feeney & Noller 1990
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“The literature commonly identifies four adult attachment styles: secure (low anxiety and avoidance), avoidant (emotional distancing and discomfort with intimacy), anxious (reassurance-seeking and fear of rejection), and ambivalent (a volatile combination of anxiety and avoidance, producing desire-withdrawal spirals) (Feeney & Noller 1990;Hazan & Shaver 1987).”
From Not a Silver Bullet for Loneliness: How Attachment and Age Shape Intimacy with AI Companions (2026) · cites this paper as Feeney & Noller 1990
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“secure individuals are comfortable with intimacy, avoidant individuals strive to minimise it and maintain distance, anxious individuals seek it excessively, and ambivalent individuals oscillate between desire and withdrawal (Bartholomew & Horowitz 1991;Feeney & Noller 1990;Spielmann et al. 2013).”
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- Feeney, J. A., & Noller, P.
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- Journal of Personality and Social Psychology
- Published
- 1990-02
- Volume
- 58
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- 281-291
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- 1939-1315
- 0022-3514
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- 707
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