Attachment Histories for People with Characteristics of Self-Defeating Personality

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ID13659165
AuthorsDeirdre Williams (Southern Illinois University Carbondale, corresponding author), Thomas Schill (Southern Illinois University Carbondale)
Year1993
Volume73
Issue3_suppl
Pages1232-1234
Publication date1993-12-01
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenuePsychological Reports (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0033-2941 • E-ISSN: 1558-691X
PublisherSAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.2466/pr0.1993.73.3f.1232
PMID8115576
OpenAlexW2095895038
LanguageEN
Citations received8
References cited5

Correlations of undergraduates' responses (79 men, 79 women) to the Self-defeating Personality Scale and Gough and Heilbrun's Adjective Check List indicated people who had more characteristics of self-defeating personality were more likely to recall ambivalent and avoidant attachment histories regarding their mothers. There was a tendency for men to recall avoidant attachment histories for fathers as well. These results lend some support to Glickhauf-Hughes and Wells who in 1991 contended being reared in an unpredictable environment by parents who are ambivalent contributes to the development of self-defeating personality. The rs suggest these characteristics are related to cold and rejecting parenting as well

Adjective check list · Ambivalence · Cognitive psychology · Developmental psychology · Personality · Recall · Attachment and Relationship Dynamics · Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development · Family Dynamics and Relationships · Psychology · Social Psychology

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