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Attachment and social networks

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posted on 2024-06-06, 01:26 authored by O Gillath, G C Karantzas, J Lee
The current review covers two lines of research linking attachment and social networks. One focuses on attachment networks (the people who fulfill one's attachment needs), examining composition and age-related differences pertaining to these networks. The other line integrates attachment with social network analysis to investigate how individual differences in adult attachment are associated with the management and characteristics (e.g., density, multiplexity, and centrality) of people's social networks. We show that most people's attachment networks are small and hierarchical, with one figure being the primary attachment figure (often a mother or romantic partner, depending on age). Furthermore, attachment style predicts network characteristics and management, such that insecurity is associated with less closeness, multiplexity, centrality, and poorer management (less maintenance, more dissolution).

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Current Opinion in Psychology

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25

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21-25

Location

Netherlands

ISSN

2352-250X

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2352-2518

Language

English

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C1 Refereed article in a scholarly journal

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