The ebbs and flows of attachment: Within-person variation in attachment undermine secure individuals' relationship wellbeing across time.

ABSTRACT: Although attachment security is relatively stable over time, individuals do experience significant within-person variation in their attachment security across time. No research to date, however, has assessed the relational consequences of within-person variation (fluctuations) in attachment security toward a specific attachment figure. Study 1 (N = 409) first examined whether attachment security was associated with individuals' expectations that their current intimate relationship would be stable and consistent over time (vs. inconsistent and unstable). Studies 2 and 3 extended this by examining the prevalence and consequences of actual within-person variation (fluctuations) in relationship-specific attachment security toward an intimate partner in 2 multiwave longitudinal studies that ass

SUBMITTER: Girme YU 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5820166 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature