Carol L Wilson

Biographic Data

ID3872843
NAMECarol L Wilson
GIVEN NAMESCarol L
FAMILY NAMEWilson
SIGNATUREWILSON C L
AFFILIATIONSMitchell Institute
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS6
TOTAL CITATIONS62
AUTHOR COUNT6
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2003
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2016
H-INDEX3

  • Childbirth pain, attachment orientations, and romantic partner support during labor and delivery

    Open AccessCarol L Wilson, Jeffry A SimpsonARTICLEPersonal Relationships2016References: 9

    Attachment anxiety is associated with greater perceived physical pain, whereas social support is associated with lower pain perceptions. Few studies, however, have examined the joint effects of attachment and support on acute physical pain in a dyadic context. In this study, first‐time expectant mothers ( N = 140) and their male partners completed romantic attachment measures (prenatally) and postnatal assessments of women's pain and men's emotio…

  • A pain in her arm

    Open AccessCarol L Wilson, Mollie A RubenARTICLEPersonal Relationships2011

    Prior research has linked attachment anxiety to heightened perceptions of chronic pain. However, few studies have examined attachment and acute pain, and none of these to our knowledge have included partner attachment effects in a dyadic context. Sixty‐five healthy undergraduate women were exposed to an ischemic pain task in the presence of their romantic partners. As expected, women's higher attachment anxiety predicted lower pain thresholds, gr…

  • Attachment orientations and depression

    W Steven Rholes, Jeffry A Simpson et al.ARTICLEJournal of Personality and Social…2011Cited by: 12

    In this longitudinal study, we followed a large sample of first-time parents (both partners) across the first 2 years of the transition to parenthood. Guided by attachment theory (Bowlby, 1969), we tested several predictions about how attachment anxiety and avoidance are related to the incidence, maintenance, increase, and decline of depressive symptoms in both sexes across the first 2 years of the transition. We found that (a) the association be…

  • Suspicious minds

    Open AccessWilliam Ickes, Jeremy W Dugosh et al.ARTICLEPersonal Relationships2003

    In four studies, we obtained evidence for the reliability and validity of a 21‐item scale designed to measure a new theoretical construct: individual differences in the motivation to acquire relationship‐threatening information (hereafter, MARTI). Study 1 provided evidence for the MARTI scale's reliability and discriminant validity, revealing that it was reliable and not significantly correlated with measures of the Big Five personality traits, a…

  • Changes in attachment orientations across the transition to parenthood

    Open AccessJeffry A Simpson, W Steven Rholes et al.ARTICLEJournal of Experimental Social…2003Cited by: 21References: 36

  • Adult attachment, the transition to parenthood, and depressive symptoms

    Jeffry A Simpson, W Steven Rholes et al.ARTICLEJournal of Personality and Social…2003Cited by: 29References: 67

    Testing a model suggested by J. Bowlby (1988), this study investigated how a personal vulnerability (attachment ambivalence) interacts with perceptions of deficient spousal support before and during a major life stressor (the transition to parenthood) to predict pre-to-postnatal increases in depressive symptoms. Highly ambivalent women who entered parenthood perceiving either less support or greater anger from their husbands experienced pre-to-po…