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Won't You Touch Me? The Impact of Adult Attachment Style on Intimate Touch.

Record Type:	Language materials, manuscript : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Won't You Touch Me? The Impact of Adult Attachment Style on Intimate Touch./
Author:	Wagner, Samantha A.
Description:	1 online resource (40 pages)
Notes:	Source: Masters Abstracts International, Volume: 56-05.
Subject:	Clinical psychology. -
Online resource:	click for full text (PQDT)
ISBN:	9780355083651

Won't You Touch Me? The Impact of Adult Attachment Style on Intimate Touch.
Wagner, Samantha A.

Won't You Touch Me? The Impact of Adult Attachment Style on Intimate Touch. - 1 online resource (40 pages)

Source: Masters Abstracts International, Volume: 56-05.

Thesis (M.S.)--State University of New York at Binghamton, 2017.

Includes bibliographical references

Research suggests that proximity seeking is a major component of adult attachment relationships, and that an important aspect of proximity seeking is intimate touch. Although individuals with differing adult attachment styles often have differing levels of proximity seeking; to date, little research has been done on the impact that attachment has on intimate touch in romantic relationships. The current study examined 185 heterosexual couples recruited from upstate New York. It was hypothesized that individuals with more secure attachment features would have higher levels of satisfaction with, and engage more in, intimate touch, as would their partners, relative to individuals with less secure styles (e.g., anxious). Additionally, it was hypothesized that there would be an effect of anxious attachment on individual and partner touch engagement and satisfaction. Utilizing the actor-partner interdependence model (APIM), I found that only wives secure attachment related to increased behaviors of in intimate touch. However, both wives and husbands with anxious attachment styles were less satisfied with intimate touch in their relationship and had partners who were less likely to engage in intimate touch. These findings suggest that attachment styles are relevant to intimate touch preferences and behaviors exchanged between intimate partners. They also provide the groundwork for additional research examining dyadic processes that link with particular attachment styles (e.g., approach-withdrawal communication) and may explain associations with poorer quality intimate touch in romantic relationships.

Electronic reproduction.
Ann Arbor, Mich. :
ProQuest,
2018

Mode of access: World Wide Web

ISBN: 9780355083651Subjects--Topical Terms:

649607
Clinical psychology.
Index Terms--Genre/Form:

554714
Electronic books.

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