Trends Over Time in Emerging Adults’ Self-Reports of Attachment Styles

Recent trend analyses have documented changes over the past decades in psychological and relational variables (e.g., social interaction, empathy, loneliness) for emerging adults. With one exception), however, little research has examined how attachment styles may have changed over time. The present...

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Published in:Emerging adulthood (Thousand Oaks, CA) CA), 2022-10, Vol.10 (5), p.1173-1178
Main Author: Sprecher, Susan
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Attachment
Attachment style
Empathy
Loneliness
Social interaction
Sociodemographics
Time
Variables
Young adults
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Summary:Recent trend analyses have documented changes over the past decades in psychological and relational variables (e.g., social interaction, empathy, loneliness) for emerging adults. With one exception), however, little research has examined how attachment styles may have changed over time. The present study, which involved data collected from 1997 to 2019 within one university setting, examined whether young adults’ selection of the attachment style that best described them from Bartholomew and Horowitz’s) four-category attachment measure changed over time, controlling for several sociodemographic variables. Results indicated that the probability of selecting an insecure attachment style (and particularly the dismissing attachment style) increased over time, controlling for sociodemographic variables. The results are consistent with those of Konrath et al.
ISSN:2167-6968
2167-6984
DOI:10.1177/2167696820962599