Change and stability in attachment security

描述（由申请人提供）：解释人们在一生中是否、如何以及为什么会改变或保持不变是心理学研究的一个基本问题。这个项目试图解释人们在亲密关系中依恋安全体验的变化和连续性。人们亲密关系中发生的事情对他们的幸福有着严重的影响。人际关系问题通常与消极结果有关，如抑郁、暴力和离婚，仅举几例。因此，理解为什么人们在一段关系中随着时间的推移变得更安全或更不安全，对于促进个人和集体的幸福都很重要。该项目有三个目标。第一个是调查生活经历和人们看待这些经历的方式如何在短期和长期内影响依恋安全的变化。第二种方法是研究是否对某些人来说，安全感的变化更容易受到生活环境的影响，而对另一些人来说则不然。第三个目标是检验人们在所有恋爱关系中体验到相同水平的安全感的程度，以及在每段新关系的各个方面建立安全感的程度。这些问题将采用不同的方法进行研究。为了捕捉安全的日常波动，将进行两个试图诱导安全水平变化的实验。此外，研究人员还将对一组约会情侣的日常经历进行日记研究，以检查他们对现实生活中关系环境的日常安全感变化。最后，将对参与者进行为期两年的纵向研究，以检验依恋安全在应对重要生活事件和新关系时的变化和连续性。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Explaining whether, how, and why people change or stay the same over their lifetime is a fundamental issue in psychological research. This project seeks to explain changes and continuities in people's experiences of attachment security in close relationships. What happens in people's close relationships has serious implications for their welfare. Relationship problems are frequently associated with negative outcomes such as depression, violence, and divorce, to name just a few. As such, understanding why people become more or less secure in relationships over time will be important for promoting both individual and dyadic well being. The project has three goals. The first is to investigate how life experiences and the ways in which people view those experiences contribute to changes in attachment security over short and longer time periods. The second is to examine whether changes in security are more reactive to life circumstances for some people, but not others. The third objective is to examine the extent to which people experience the same levels of security across all of their romantic relationships versus base their level of security on aspects of each new relationship. These issues will be examined using diverse methods. To capture day-to-day fluctuations in security, two experiments that attempt to induce change in levels of security will be conducted. In addition, a diary study of daily experiences with a group of dating couples will be conducted to examine daily changes in security in response to real-life relationship circumstances. Finally, a longitudinal study that follows Participants over two years will be conducted to examine change and continuity in attachment security in response to important life events and new relationships.