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Predicting prosocial personality from attachment facets: are some facets more critical than others?
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posted on 2007-01-01, 00:00 authored by O Gillath, Gery KarantzasGery KarantzasResearch across various countries and relationship contexts suggests that attachment anxiety and avoidance are associated with people’s prosocial feelings, tendencies, and behaviors (e.g., Gillath et al., 2005; Karantzas, Evans, & Foddy, 2007). In the present paper we extend the two dimensional model of attachment to include a series of nested facets. Doing so allowed us to examine whether the multifaceted nested factor model provides a better explanation of the associations between attachment and the components of prosocial personality as compared to the bi-factor model (attachment anxiety and avoidance). Three hundred and eighty participants, aged 18 to 33 years completed self-report measures of adult attachment and prosocial personality. Data were fitted to various models – as expected the nested model provided a better fit to the data and explained a significantly larger proportion of the variance in prosocial tendencies than the bi-factor model. The attachment facets were found to make distinct contributions to prosocial personality beyond the broad attachment dimensions (e.g., the preoccupied facet was uniquely associated with personal distress). Implications for the revised attachment structure across various prosocial contexts are discussed, as are the limitations of using the Experience in Close Relationships Scale (ECR; Brennan et al., 1998) to test a multifaceted attachment model.
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Combined APS PORIG Conference/IARR Mini-Conference (7th: 2007: Melbourne, Vic.)Pagination
41 - 52Publisher
Australian Psychological SocietyLocation
Melbourne, Vic.Place of publication
Melbourne, Vic.Start date
2007-11-10End date
2007-11-11ISBN-13
9780909881351ISBN-10
0909881359Language
engNotes
Psychology of Relationships Interest Group and International Association for Relationship Research Mini-ConferencePublication classification
E1 Full written paper - refereedEditor/Contributor(s)
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Generations of relationships and relationships across generations conference proceedingsUsage metrics
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