Kim Bartholomew
Biographic Data
| ID | 118104 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Kim Bartholomew |
| GIVEN NAMES | Kim |
| FAMILY NAME | Bartholomew |
| SIGNATURE | BARTHOLOMEW K |
| AFFILIATIONS | Simon Fraser University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 25 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1226 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 25 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1990 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2014 |
| H-INDEX | 11 |
Need Fulfillment in Polyamorous Relationships
Polyamory is characterized by simultaneous consensual romantic relationships with multiple partners. Polyamory allows individuals to fulfill their relationship needs with multiple romantic partners, yet researchers have not identified how having needs met in one romantic relationship may be related to relationship outcomes in a concurrent relationship. Polyamorous individuals (N=1,093) completed online measures of need fulfillment, relationship s…
Themes of Lust and Love in Popular Music Lyrics From 1971 to 2011
We explored themes related to sexual desire (lust) and romantic desire (love) in the lyrics of popular music over the past 40 years. We examined whether there have been changes in the prevalence of lust and love themes and changes in how these themes inter-relate in music lyrics over time. The study sample consisted of the top 40 songs of Billboard Year End Hot 100 single songs for every 5 years from 1971 to 2011 ( N = 360). There was a linear de…
Love as a Battlefield: Attachment and Relationship Dynamics in Couples Identified for Male Partner Violence
The authors explored the attachment dynamics of heterosexual couples identified for male partner violence. Based on semistructured interviews, participants were assessed for attachment orientations. Based on a thematic analysis of the interviews, two strategies for regulating distance within these relationships were identified: pursuit and distancing. Partners' abusive acts often appeared to serve one of these attachment strategies. As a pursuit …
The relative severity of acts of physical violence in heterosexual relationships: An item response theory analysis
This study evaluated the structure of an expanded version of the physical violence scale of the Conflict Tactics Scales (CTS). A community sample of 1,092 randomly selected men and women reported on perpetration and receipt of 14 violent acts in their relationships. Item response theory analyses indicated that the violence items were unidimensional for recipient and perpetrator reports of men's and women's violence. There was convergence between …
Intimate Violence in Male Same-Sex Relationships
When Loving Means Hurting: An Exploration of Attachment and Intimate Abuse In a Community Sample
Gay and bisexual men's age‐discrepant childhood sexual experiences
This study examined childhood sexual abuse (CSA) in gay and bisexual men. We compared the conventional definition of CSA based on age difference with a modified definition of CSA based on perception to evaluate which definition best accounted for problems in adjustment. The sample consisted of 192 gay and bisexual men recruited from a randomly selected community sample. Men's descriptions of their CSA experiences were coded from taped interviews.…
Gender Nonconformity, Childhood Rejection, and Adult Attachment: A Study of Gay Men
The intergenerational transmission of relationship violence.
This study explored the intergenerational transmission of violence in a community sample. A telephone survey of 1,249 adults in the City of Vancouver assessed family-of-origin violence (father to mother, mother to father, father to self, and mother to self), as well as physical and psychological abuse in intimate relationships. All forms of family-of-origin violence were predictive of all forms of relationship abuse, consistent with a general soc…
Coping with Multiple Aids-Related Loss Among Gay Men
This study examined strategies gay men used to cope with multiple AIDS-related loss. One hundred forty-one gay men completed a questionnaire assessing how many losses they had experienced and how they had dealt with their losses. Participants chose from a list of 19 possible response strategies and then rated their choices for degree of helpfulness. Results showed that support from others, especially friends and partners, and personal ways of dea…
Self- and partner- perceptions of interpersonal problems and relationship functioning
Self- and Partner-Perceptions of Interpersonal Problems and Relationship Functioning
This study investigated whether self- and partner-perceptions of interpersonal problems predicted relationship functioning. Partners' understanding of one another's interpersonal problems, projection of their own problems onto their partners, and positive perceptions of their partners' problems were assessed. Individuals from 76 couples completed selfreport measures of their own interpersonal problems and of their perceptions of their partners' i…
A demographic and health profile of gay and bisexual men in a large Canadian urban setting
The purpose of this study was to provide both a population estimate and a socio-economic and health profile of gay and bisexual men living with HIV/AIDS in a large Canadian urban centre. A random telephone survey was used to determine the number of men in the study area over the age of 20 identifying as gay or bisexual and to characterize their health and socio-economic status. Out of a total of 1,176 completed interviews, 300 males described the…
Modern Antiretroviral Therapy Improves Life Expectancy of Gay and Bisexual Males in Vancouver’s West End
Do you remember: Recollections of adult attachment patterns
To determine if memory biases influence recall of attachment patterns, we examined retrospective reports of adult attachment patterns in a sample of young established couples. At time 1, participants reported their attachment patterns on a self‐report attachment measure (RQ). Eight months later, participants completed the RQ to assess their current attachment patterns, as well as their memory of their attachment patterns 8 months earlier. Seventy…
Adult attachment processes: Individual and couple perspectives
This paper overviews a new approach to understanding the range of difficulties experienced in close attachment relationships in adulthood. Drawing on the work of Bowlby, four prototypic adult attachment patterns are defined in terms of the intersection of two underlying dimensions, the positivity of the person's self‐image and the positivity of the person's image of others (Bartholomew, 1990; Bartholomew & Horowitz, 1991). The distinct interperso…
Hierarchies of Attachment Relationships in Young Adulthood
This study examined the characteristics of attachment hierarchies in young adulthood. Multiple components were used to assess attachment bonds: using the attachment figure as a safe haven in times of distress, using him or her as a secure base from which to venture out independently, having a strong emotional tie with the person regardless of whether the tie is positive, negative, or mixed, seeking to be in close proximity to the person, and mour…
Social‐Emotional Adjustment and Patterns of Alcohol Use among Young Adults
Individual differences in social‐emotional adjustment, jointly defined by levels of distress and self‐restraint, were used to evaluate ( a ) patterns of alcohol use, ( b ) reasons for use, and (c) associated problems in two college samples of young adults ( N = 287 and N = 215). As hypothesized, low self‐restraint was associated with high levels of alcohol use, drinking to increase positive affect, and high levels of alcohol‐related problems. Sub…
The Application of Attachment Theory to Counseling Psychology
Accommodation and Attachment Representations in Young Couples
In a prospective study, we examined the relationship between internal representations of attachment and accommodation. Participants consisted of both members of established young couples (N = 128; mean age = 24.4 years at time 1; mean relationship length = 47 months at time 1). Participants were administered the Peer Attachment Interview and a relationship satisfaction scale twice over 8 months. At time 2, participants completed the Accommodation…
Intimacy‐Anger and Insecure Attachment as Precursors of Abuse in Intimate Relationships 1
One hundred and twenty men referred for treatment for wife assault and forty demographic controls completed self‐report questionnaires assessing attachment patterns, anger, jealousy, Borderline Personality Organization, and trauma symptoms. This constellation, with the exception of attachment, has been found to represent a profile related significantly to the frequency of both verbal and physical abuse. In the present study, attachment was found …
Reliability and stability of adult attachment patterns
A basic premise of attachment theory is that internal models of attachment remain relatively stable across the life span. We examined stability and change in adult attachment representations over 8 months in a sample of young adults (N = 144; Mean age = 24.5 years). Attachment patterns were assessed by categorical and continuous ratings across three methods—self‐report ratings, expert ratings based on semi‐structured interviews, and reports of ro…
Models of the self and other: Fundamental dimensions underlying measures of adult attachment
Three studies assessed the construct validity of the self- and other-model dimensions underlying the 4-category model of adult attachment (Bartholomew, 1990). Five methods were used to assess the hypothesized dimensions: self-reports, friend-reports, romantic partner reports, trained judges' ratings of peer attachment, and trained judges' ratings of family attachment. In each study, the convergent and discriminant validity of the dimensions were …
Attachment styles among young adults: A test of a four-category model
Avoidance of Intimacy: An Attachment Perspective
A basic principle of attachment theory is that early attachment relationships with caregivers provide the prototype for later social relations. Working within an attachment framework, a new 4-group model of characteristic attachment styles in adulthood is proposed. In particular, two forms of adult avoidance of intimacy are differentiated: a fearful style that is characterized by a conscious desire for social contact which is inhibited by fears o…
Attachment styles among young adults: A test of a four-category model
Avoidance of Intimacy: An Attachment Perspective
A basic principle of attachment theory is that early attachment relationships with caregivers provide the prototype for later social relations. Working within an attachment framework, a new 4-group model of characteristic attachment styles in adulthood is proposed. In particular, two forms of adult avoidance of intimacy are differentiated: a fearful style that is characterized by a conscious desire for social contact which is inhibited by fears o…
Models of the self and other: Fundamental dimensions underlying measures of adult attachment
Three studies assessed the construct validity of the self- and other-model dimensions underlying the 4-category model of adult attachment (Bartholomew, 1990). Five methods were used to assess the hypothesized dimensions: self-reports, friend-reports, romantic partner reports, trained judges' ratings of peer attachment, and trained judges' ratings of family attachment. In each study, the convergent and discriminant validity of the dimensions were …
Hierarchies of Attachment Relationships in Young Adulthood
This study examined the characteristics of attachment hierarchies in young adulthood. Multiple components were used to assess attachment bonds: using the attachment figure as a safe haven in times of distress, using him or her as a secure base from which to venture out independently, having a strong emotional tie with the person regardless of whether the tie is positive, negative, or mixed, seeking to be in close proximity to the person, and mour…
When Loving Means Hurting: An Exploration of Attachment and Intimate Abuse In a Community Sample
Gender Nonconformity, Childhood Rejection, and Adult Attachment: A Study of Gay Men
Love as a Battlefield: Attachment and Relationship Dynamics in Couples Identified for Male Partner Violence
The authors explored the attachment dynamics of heterosexual couples identified for male partner violence. Based on semistructured interviews, participants were assessed for attachment orientations. Based on a thematic analysis of the interviews, two strategies for regulating distance within these relationships were identified: pursuit and distancing. Partners' abusive acts often appeared to serve one of these attachment strategies. As a pursuit …
Accommodation and Attachment Representations in Young Couples
In a prospective study, we examined the relationship between internal representations of attachment and accommodation. Participants consisted of both members of established young couples (N = 128; mean age = 24.4 years at time 1; mean relationship length = 47 months at time 1). Participants were administered the Peer Attachment Interview and a relationship satisfaction scale twice over 8 months. At time 2, participants completed the Accommodation…
Intimate Violence in Male Same-Sex Relationships
Self- and Partner-Perceptions of Interpersonal Problems and Relationship Functioning
This study investigated whether self- and partner-perceptions of interpersonal problems predicted relationship functioning. Partners' understanding of one another's interpersonal problems, projection of their own problems onto their partners, and positive perceptions of their partners' problems were assessed. Individuals from 76 couples completed selfreport measures of their own interpersonal problems and of their perceptions of their partners' i…
Gay and bisexual men's age‐discrepant childhood sexual experiences
This study examined childhood sexual abuse (CSA) in gay and bisexual men. We compared the conventional definition of CSA based on age difference with a modified definition of CSA based on perception to evaluate which definition best accounted for problems in adjustment. The sample consisted of 192 gay and bisexual men recruited from a randomly selected community sample. Men's descriptions of their CSA experiences were coded from taped interviews.…
Adult attachment processes: Individual and couple perspectives
This paper overviews a new approach to understanding the range of difficulties experienced in close attachment relationships in adulthood. Drawing on the work of Bowlby, four prototypic adult attachment patterns are defined in terms of the intersection of two underlying dimensions, the positivity of the person's self‐image and the positivity of the person's image of others (Bartholomew, 1990; Bartholomew & Horowitz, 1991). The distinct interperso…
Modern Antiretroviral Therapy Improves Life Expectancy of Gay and Bisexual Males in Vancouver’s West End
Self- and partner- perceptions of interpersonal problems and relationship functioning
The Application of Attachment Theory to Counseling Psychology
Themes of Lust and Love in Popular Music Lyrics From 1971 to 2011
We explored themes related to sexual desire (lust) and romantic desire (love) in the lyrics of popular music over the past 40 years. We examined whether there have been changes in the prevalence of lust and love themes and changes in how these themes inter-relate in music lyrics over time. The study sample consisted of the top 40 songs of Billboard Year End Hot 100 single songs for every 5 years from 1971 to 2011 ( N = 360). There was a linear de…
Coping with Multiple Aids-Related Loss Among Gay Men
This study examined strategies gay men used to cope with multiple AIDS-related loss. One hundred forty-one gay men completed a questionnaire assessing how many losses they had experienced and how they had dealt with their losses. Participants chose from a list of 19 possible response strategies and then rated their choices for degree of helpfulness. Results showed that support from others, especially friends and partners, and personal ways of dea…
Avoidance of Intimacy: An Attachment Perspective
A basic principle of attachment theory is that early attachment relationships with caregivers provide the prototype for later social relations. Working within an attachment framework, a new 4-group model of characteristic attachment styles in adulthood is proposed. In particular, two forms of adult avoidance of intimacy are differentiated: a fearful style that is characterized by a conscious desire for social contact which is inhibited by fears o…
Attachment styles among young adults: A test of a four-category model
Intimacy‐Anger and Insecure Attachment as Precursors of Abuse in Intimate Relationships 1
One hundred and twenty men referred for treatment for wife assault and forty demographic controls completed self‐report questionnaires assessing attachment patterns, anger, jealousy, Borderline Personality Organization, and trauma symptoms. This constellation, with the exception of attachment, has been found to represent a profile related significantly to the frequency of both verbal and physical abuse. In the present study, attachment was found …
Reliability and stability of adult attachment patterns
A basic premise of attachment theory is that internal models of attachment remain relatively stable across the life span. We examined stability and change in adult attachment representations over 8 months in a sample of young adults (N = 144; Mean age = 24.5 years). Attachment patterns were assessed by categorical and continuous ratings across three methods—self‐report ratings, expert ratings based on semi‐structured interviews, and reports of ro…
Models of the self and other: Fundamental dimensions underlying measures of adult attachment
Three studies assessed the construct validity of the self- and other-model dimensions underlying the 4-category model of adult attachment (Bartholomew, 1990). Five methods were used to assess the hypothesized dimensions: self-reports, friend-reports, romantic partner reports, trained judges' ratings of peer attachment, and trained judges' ratings of family attachment. In each study, the convergent and discriminant validity of the dimensions were …
The Application of Attachment Theory to Counseling Psychology
Accommodation and Attachment Representations in Young Couples
In a prospective study, we examined the relationship between internal representations of attachment and accommodation. Participants consisted of both members of established young couples (N = 128; mean age = 24.4 years at time 1; mean relationship length = 47 months at time 1). Participants were administered the Peer Attachment Interview and a relationship satisfaction scale twice over 8 months. At time 2, participants completed the Accommodation…
Social‐Emotional Adjustment and Patterns of Alcohol Use among Young Adults
Individual differences in social‐emotional adjustment, jointly defined by levels of distress and self‐restraint, were used to evaluate ( a ) patterns of alcohol use, ( b ) reasons for use, and (c) associated problems in two college samples of young adults ( N = 287 and N = 215). As hypothesized, low self‐restraint was associated with high levels of alcohol use, drinking to increase positive affect, and high levels of alcohol‐related problems. Sub…
Adult attachment processes: Individual and couple perspectives
This paper overviews a new approach to understanding the range of difficulties experienced in close attachment relationships in adulthood. Drawing on the work of Bowlby, four prototypic adult attachment patterns are defined in terms of the intersection of two underlying dimensions, the positivity of the person's self‐image and the positivity of the person's image of others (Bartholomew, 1990; Bartholomew & Horowitz, 1991). The distinct interperso…
Hierarchies of Attachment Relationships in Young Adulthood
This study examined the characteristics of attachment hierarchies in young adulthood. Multiple components were used to assess attachment bonds: using the attachment figure as a safe haven in times of distress, using him or her as a secure base from which to venture out independently, having a strong emotional tie with the person regardless of whether the tie is positive, negative, or mixed, seeking to be in close proximity to the person, and mour…
Do you remember: Recollections of adult attachment patterns
To determine if memory biases influence recall of attachment patterns, we examined retrospective reports of adult attachment patterns in a sample of young established couples. At time 1, participants reported their attachment patterns on a self‐report attachment measure (RQ). Eight months later, participants completed the RQ to assess their current attachment patterns, as well as their memory of their attachment patterns 8 months earlier. Seventy…
Modern Antiretroviral Therapy Improves Life Expectancy of Gay and Bisexual Males in Vancouver’s West End
A demographic and health profile of gay and bisexual men in a large Canadian urban setting
The purpose of this study was to provide both a population estimate and a socio-economic and health profile of gay and bisexual men living with HIV/AIDS in a large Canadian urban centre. A random telephone survey was used to determine the number of men in the study area over the age of 20 identifying as gay or bisexual and to characterize their health and socio-economic status. Out of a total of 1,176 completed interviews, 300 males described the…
The intergenerational transmission of relationship violence.
This study explored the intergenerational transmission of violence in a community sample. A telephone survey of 1,249 adults in the City of Vancouver assessed family-of-origin violence (father to mother, mother to father, father to self, and mother to self), as well as physical and psychological abuse in intimate relationships. All forms of family-of-origin violence were predictive of all forms of relationship abuse, consistent with a general soc…
Coping with Multiple Aids-Related Loss Among Gay Men
This study examined strategies gay men used to cope with multiple AIDS-related loss. One hundred forty-one gay men completed a questionnaire assessing how many losses they had experienced and how they had dealt with their losses. Participants chose from a list of 19 possible response strategies and then rated their choices for degree of helpfulness. Results showed that support from others, especially friends and partners, and personal ways of dea…
Self- and partner- perceptions of interpersonal problems and relationship functioning
Self- and Partner-Perceptions of Interpersonal Problems and Relationship Functioning
This study investigated whether self- and partner-perceptions of interpersonal problems predicted relationship functioning. Partners' understanding of one another's interpersonal problems, projection of their own problems onto their partners, and positive perceptions of their partners' problems were assessed. Individuals from 76 couples completed selfreport measures of their own interpersonal problems and of their perceptions of their partners' i…
Gay and bisexual men's age‐discrepant childhood sexual experiences
This study examined childhood sexual abuse (CSA) in gay and bisexual men. We compared the conventional definition of CSA based on age difference with a modified definition of CSA based on perception to evaluate which definition best accounted for problems in adjustment. The sample consisted of 192 gay and bisexual men recruited from a randomly selected community sample. Men's descriptions of their CSA experiences were coded from taped interviews.…
Gender Nonconformity, Childhood Rejection, and Adult Attachment: A Study of Gay Men
When Loving Means Hurting: An Exploration of Attachment and Intimate Abuse In a Community Sample
The relative severity of acts of physical violence in heterosexual relationships: An item response theory analysis
This study evaluated the structure of an expanded version of the physical violence scale of the Conflict Tactics Scales (CTS). A community sample of 1,092 randomly selected men and women reported on perpetration and receipt of 14 violent acts in their relationships. Item response theory analyses indicated that the violence items were unidimensional for recipient and perpetrator reports of men's and women's violence. There was convergence between …
Intimate Violence in Male Same-Sex Relationships
Love as a Battlefield: Attachment and Relationship Dynamics in Couples Identified for Male Partner Violence
The authors explored the attachment dynamics of heterosexual couples identified for male partner violence. Based on semistructured interviews, participants were assessed for attachment orientations. Based on a thematic analysis of the interviews, two strategies for regulating distance within these relationships were identified: pursuit and distancing. Partners' abusive acts often appeared to serve one of these attachment strategies. As a pursuit …
Need Fulfillment in Polyamorous Relationships
Polyamory is characterized by simultaneous consensual romantic relationships with multiple partners. Polyamory allows individuals to fulfill their relationship needs with multiple romantic partners, yet researchers have not identified how having needs met in one romantic relationship may be related to relationship outcomes in a concurrent relationship. Polyamorous individuals (N=1,093) completed online measures of need fulfillment, relationship s…
Themes of Lust and Love in Popular Music Lyrics From 1971 to 2011
We explored themes related to sexual desire (lust) and romantic desire (love) in the lyrics of popular music over the past 40 years. We examined whether there have been changes in the prevalence of lust and love themes and changes in how these themes inter-relate in music lyrics over time. The study sample consisted of the top 40 songs of Billboard Year End Hot 100 single songs for every 5 years from 1971 to 2011 ( N = 360). There was a linear de…
Psychology (24 works) · Developmental psychology (19 works) · Social Psychology (17 works) · Attachment and Relationship Dynamics (16 works) · Clinical Psychology (13 works) · Social Psychology (10 works) · Clinical Psychology (9 works) · Attachment theory (8 works) · Medicine (8 works) · Family Dynamics and Relationships (7 works)