Change and stability in attachment security

描述(由申请者提供)：解释人们是否、如何以及为什么在一生中改变或保持不变是心理学研究中的一个基本问题。这个项目试图解释人们在亲密关系中的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福祉有着严重的影响。关系问题经常与消极后果有关，比如抑郁、暴力和离婚，仅举几例。因此，理解为什么随着时间的推移，人们在关系中变得或多或少地变得安全，对于促进个人和双方的幸福都是重要的。该项目有三个目标。第一个是调查生活经历以及人们看待这些经历的方式如何在短时间和长时间内促进依恋安全感的变化。第二个问题是，对于一些人来说，安全方面的变化是否更多地受到生活环境的影响，而对另一些人来说则不然。第三个目标是考察人们在所有恋爱关系中感受到的相同安全感的程度，而不是将他们的安全感建立在每段新关系的方方面面上。这些问题将使用不同的方法进行审查。为了捕捉安全级别的日常波动，将进行两个试图引起安全级别变化的实验。此外，还将对一组约会情侣的日常经历进行日记研究，以考察随着现实生活中的关系情况，安全感的日常变化。最后，将对参与者进行两年多的纵向研究，以检查依恋安全感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.