Attachment and propensity for reporting compassionate opportunities and behavior in everyday life.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

Researchers have identified links between anxious and avoidant attachments and difficulties with self-compassion, giving others compassion, and receiving compassion. However, while compassion requires both awareness of opportunities for compassion and compassionate action, little is known about attachment-related differences in reporting compassionate opportunities. Further, most research relies on retrospective-reports that may not accurately assess compassionate behaviors in everyday life.

Method

Consequently, we collected 2,757 experience sampling survey responses from 125 participants (95 women, 27 men, 3 non-binary, M _age = 18.74, SD _age = 1.66) to investigate whether attachment anxiety, avoidance, or their interaction we

SUBMITTER: Varley D 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11322129 | biostudies-literature | 2024

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature