The self and other connection : the relationship between attachment style, capacity to forgive, and defensive style /

and defensive style can be predictably determined, the modest

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Main Author: Luebbert, Michael Charles, 1956-
Format: Thesis eBook
Language:English
Published: [Place of publication not identified] : [publisher not identified] ; 1995.
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Summary:and defensive style can be predictably determined, the modest
and the capacity to forgive self or other received
appropriate until the results have been replicated.
association of the capacity to forgive self and other with
attachment style and defensive style with university students
attachment style or dimension can be related predictably, but
attachment styles (secure, preoccupied, dismissing, &
attachment styles with congruent self and other valences,
Bartholomew's four-fold model of attachment with its
consistent, but moderate, validation. The predictable
could be related more predictably to individual defensive
defensive styles found modest support. As it turned out, the
defensive styles lends support to the ethologically-grounded
fearful) along two attachment dimensions (self and other),
findings from this present study which indicate that the
forgive either self or other. The pattern of relationships
idea that forgiveness possesses either a survival value of
its own or one lent it by its predictable association with
modestly, to the individual's self-reported capacity to
nature of the results suggests that cautious optimism is
of defensive style, and the capacity to forgive self and
of research on defensiveness in infant and child attachment,
orthogonal self and other dimensions. Analysis also revealed
other. Subjects were 206 students from the Texas A&M subject
pool and included 73 males and 133 females (aged 17 to 55
presence of defensive operations in insecurely attached
relationship between the use of a particular defensive style
relationship of the attachment styles or dimensions with
relationships between attachment style, forgiveness style,
representations posited by Bowlby as a function of three
research in this area. In addition, the hypothesized
styles. The overall results concerning the relationship of
that, with one notable exception, the hypothesized
the various defensive styles. In addition, following the lead
this present study provides empirical evidence for the
this study explored the complementarity of self- and other-
university students. Finally, in spite of the positive
variables: attachment style or dimension, relative maturity
were consistent with earlier infant and child attachment
which resulted lent general support to the validity of
Working from Bartholomew's four-fold delineation of
years). The results suggest that the use of a particular
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Physical Description:ix, 80 leaves ; 28 cm.
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