Attachment anxiety and friendship group identification under attachment threat: the moderating role of priming support network expectations

Harriet E.S. Rosenthal; Judi Walsh; Richard J. Crisp; Claire V. Farrow; Meghan J. Waugh; Jackie Blissett; Abigail Millings

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Attachment anxiety and friendship group identification under attachment threat: the moderating role of priming support network expectations

Harriet E.S. Rosenthal, Judi Walsh, Richard J. Crisp, Claire V. Farrow, Meghan J. Waugh, Jackie Blissett, Abigail Millings

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We examined the role of priming participants' own network expectations on their subsequent identification with their friendship group. We examined this prime alongside attachment anxiety and attachment threat, as predictors of friendship group identification. Previous research has suggested that attachment anxiety is associated with negative network expectations. In this study, we extended this work to show that when a network expectation prime was absent, higher attachment anxiety was associated with lower group identification under attachment threat, compared to a control condition. However, when expectations of support network were primed, attachment threat no longer affected group identification, so that only attachment anxiety predicted group identification. This suggests that priming participants who are high in attachment anxiety with their own network expectancies (which are negative), results in participants dis-identifying with their friendship group, regardless of whether or not they have experienced attachment threat.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	562-567
Number of pages	6
Journal	Personality and Individual Differences
Volume	53
Issue number	5
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.paid.2012.04.035
Publication status	Published - 1 Oct 2012

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NOTICE: this is the author’s version of a work that was accepted for publication in Personality and individual differences. Changes resulting from the publishing process, such as peer review, editing, corrections, structural formatting, and other quality control mechanisms may not be reflected in this document. Changes may have been made to this work since it was submitted for publication. A definitive version was subsequently published in Rosenthal, HES, Walsh, J, Crisp, RJ, Farrow, CV, Waugh, MJ, Blissett, J & Millings, A, 'Attachment anxiety and friendship group identification under attachment threat: the moderating role of priming support network expectations' Personality and individual differences, vol. 53, no. 5 (2012) DOI http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.paid.2012.04.035

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Attachment anxiety and friendship group identification under attachment threat
NOTICE: this is the author’s version of a work that was accepted for publication in Personality and individual differences. Changes resulting from the publishing process, such as peer review, editing, corrections, structural formatting, and other quality control mechanisms may not be reflected in this document. Changes may have been made to this work since it was submitted for publication. A definitive version was subsequently published in Rosenthal, HES, Walsh, J, Crisp, RJ, Farrow, CV, Waugh, MJ, Blissett, J & Millings, A, 'Attachment anxiety and friendship group identification under attachment threat: the moderating role of priming support network expectations' Personality and individual differences, vol. 53, no. 5 (2012) DOI http://dx.doi.org/10.1016
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