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Article: ROMANTIC ATTACHMENT STYLE AND EGO IDENTITY, ATTRIBUTIONAL STYLE, AND FAMILY OF ORIGIN IN FIRST-YEAR COLLEGE STUDENTS.
- Article from:
- College Student Journal
- Article date:
- June 1, 1999
- Author:
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This study examined the relationship between adult romantic attachment style and measures of cognitive attributional style, ego identity, attachment to primary caregiver, and family environment. Individuals having a secure attachment style were less likely to have a depressive attributional style and were more likely to have achieved ego identity status, to rate their primary caregivers as higher in independence-encouragement, and to rate their families as higher in expressiveness, cohesiveness, active-recreational orientation, and intellectual-cultural orientation than were individuals having a dismissive, fearful, or preoccupied attachment style. Fearful and preoccupied ...