Individual differences in adult crying: The role of attachment styles

Social Behavior and Personality

Volumn 40, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 453-472

  Laan, Anja J ^a   van Assen, Marcel A L M ^b   Vingerhoets, Ad J J M ^b  

^a Reinier Van Arkel Groep   (Netherlands)

^b TILBURG UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Adult crying; Attachment style; Emotions; Music

Indexed keywords

EID: 84857847229     PISSN: 03012212     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2224/sbp.2012.40.3.453     Document Type: Article

References (30)

1. Bartholomew, K., & Horowitz, L. M. (1991). Attachment styles among young adults: A test of a four-category model. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 61, 226-244. http://doi. org/gjm
2. Baumgartner, H. (1992). Remembrance of things past: Music, autobiographical memory, and emotion. Advances in Consumer Research, 19, 613-620.
3. Bowlby, J. (1969/1982). Attachment and loss (Vol. 1, 2nd ed.). New York: Basic Books.
4. Cassidy, J., & Berlin, L. J. (1994). The insecure/ambivalent pattern of attachment: Theory and research. Child Development, 65, 971-991. http://doi.org/g63
5. Collins, N. L., & Read, S. J. (1994). Cognitive representations of attachment: The structure and function of working models. In K. Bartholomew & D. Perlman (Eds.), Advances in personal relationships: Attachment processes in adulthood (Vol. 5, pp. 53-90). London, UK: Kingsley.
6. Cooley, E. L., Van Buren, A., & Cole, S. P. (2010). Attachment styles, social skills, and depression in college women. Journal of College Counseling, 13, 50-62.
7. Fosha, D. (2010). Healing attachment trauma with attachment. In M. Kerman (Ed.), Clinical pearls of wisdom: 21 leading therapists offer their key insights (pp. 43-56). New York: Norton.
8. Frey, W. H., Hoffman-Ahern, C., Johnson, R. A., Lykken, D. T., & Tuason, V. B. (1983). Crying behavior in the human adult. Integrative Psychiatry, 1, 94-98.
9. Hendriks, M. C. P., Nelson, J. K., Cornelius, R. R., & Vingerhoets, A. J. J. M. (2008). Why crying improves our well-being: An attachment-theory perspective on the functions of adult crying. In A. J. J. M. Vingerhoets, I. Nyklícek, & J. Denollet (Eds.), Emotion regulation: Conceptual and clinical issues (pp. 87-96). New York: Springer. http://doi.org/g64
10. Juslin, P. N., & Laukka, P. (2004). Expression, perception and induction of musical emotions: A review and a questionnaire study of everyday listening. Journal of New Music Research, 33, 217-238. http://doi.org/g65
11. Li, T., Li J., & Dai, Q. (2008). Adult attachment, social support, and depression level of poststroke patients. Social Behavior and Personality: An international journal, 36, 1341-1352. http://doi. org/g66
12. Maxwell, S. E., & Delaney, H. D. (2004). Designing experiments and analyzing data: A model comparison perspective (2nd ed.). Mahwah, NJ: Erlbaum.
13. Mikulincer, M., & Shaver, P. R. (2003). The attachment behavioral system in adulthood: Activation, psychodynamics, and interpersonal processes. Advances in Experimental Social Psychology, 35, 53-152. http://doi.org/g68
14. Mikulincer, M., & Shaver, P. R. (2007). Attachment in adulthood: Structure, dynamics, and change. New York: Guilford.
15. Nelson, J. K. (2000). Clinical assessment of crying and crying inhibition based on attachment theory. Bulletin of the Menninger Clinic, 64, 509-529.
16. Nelson, J. K. (2005). Seeing through tears: Crying and attachment. New York: Taylor & Francis.
17. Nelson, J. K. (2008). Crying in psychotherapy: Its meaning, assessment, and management based on attachment theory. In A. J. J. M. Vingerhoets, I. Nyklícek, & J. Denollet (Eds.), Emotion regulation. Conceptual and clinical issues (pp. 202-215). New York: Springer. http://doi.org/g69
18. Newman, J. D. (2007). Neural circuits underlying crying and cry responding in mammals. Behavioural Brain Research, 182, 155-165. http://doi.org/g7b
19. Ravitz, P., Maunder, R., Hunter, J., Sthankiya, B., & Lancee, W. (2010). Adult attachment measures: A 25-year review. Journal of Psychosomatic Research, 69, 419-432. http://doi.org/g7d
20. Rusby, J. S. M., & Tasker, F. (2008). Childhood temporary separation: Long-term effects of the British evaluation of children during World War 2 on older adults' attachment styles. Attachment & Human Development, 10, 207-221. http://doi.org/g7f
21. Shaver, P. R., & Clark, C. L. (1994). The psychodynamics of adult romantic attachment. In J. M. Masling & R. F. Bornstein (Eds.), Empirical perspectives on object relations theory (Vol. 5, pp. 105-156). Washington, DC: American Psychological Association.
22. Shaver, P. R., & Mikulincer, M. (2007). Adult attachment strategies and the regulation of emotion. In J. J. Gross (Ed.), Handbook of emotion regulation (pp. 446-465). New York: Guilford.
23. Sibley, C. G., Fischer, R., & Liu, J. H. (2005). Reliability and validity of the Revised Experiences in Close Relationships (ECR-R) self-report measure of adult romantic attachment. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 31, 1524-1536. http://doi.org/g7g
24. Spangler, G., & Zimmerman, P. (1999). Attachment representation and emotion regulation in adolescents: A psychobiological perspective on internal working models. Attachment & Human Development, 1, 270-290. http://doi.org/g7h
25. Verschueren, K., & Marcoen, A. (1993). Gehechtheidsstijl, intimiteit en vertrouwen in de jongvolwassenheid: Een reflectie van de ervaren ouderlijke sensitiviteit? [Attachment style, intimacy, and trust in young adulthood: A reflection of perceived parental sensitivity?] Psychologica Belgica, 33, 49-76.
26. Vingerhoets, A. J. J. M. (1995). Questionnaire on adult crying. Internal publication, Tilburg University, Tilburg, The Netherlands.
27. Vingerhoets, A. J. J. M., Boelhouwer, A. J. W., Van Tilburg, M. A. L., & Van Heck, G. L. (2001). The situational and emotional context of adult crying. In A. J. J. M. Vingerhoets & R. R. Cornelius (Eds.), Adult crying: A biopsychosocial approach (pp. 71-89). Hove, UK: Brunner-Routledge.
28. Vingerhoets, A. J. J. M., Bylsma, L. M., & Rottenberg, J. (2009). Crying: A biopsychosocial phenomenon. In T. Fögen (Ed.), Tears and crying in Graeco-Roman antiquity (pp. 439-475). Berlin & New York: de Gruyter.
29. Vingerhoets, A. J. J. M., & Cornelius, R. R. (Eds.) (2001). Adult crying: A biopsychosocial approach. Hove, UK: Brunner Routledge.
30. Vingerhoets, A. J. J. M., & Scheirs, J. G. M. (2000). Sex differences in crying: Empirical findings and possible explanations. In: A. H. Fischer (Ed.), Gender and emotion: Social psychological perspectives (pp. 143-165). Cambridge, MA: Cambridge University Press.