TY - JOUR
T1 - Attachment reorganization following divorce
T2 - normative processes and individual differences
AU - Sbarra, David A.
AU - Borelli, Jessica L.
N1 - Funding Information:
The first author's work on this paper was supported in part by a grant from the National Institute of Child Health & Human Development ( HD#069498 ). The second author's work on this paper was supported in part by a grant F32 National Research Service Award from the National Institute of Aging ( AG#032310 ).
Funding Information:
The first author's work on this paper was supported in part by a grant from the National Institute of Child Health & Human Development (HD#069498). The second author's work on this paper was supported in part by a grant F32 National Research Service Award from the National Institute of Aging (AG#032310).
Publisher Copyright:
© 2018 Elsevier Ltd
PY - 2019/2
Y1 - 2019/2
N2 - This paper uses attachment theory as a lens for reviewing contemporary research on how adults cope with marital separation and loss. The first section of the paper discusses the process of normative attachment reorganization, or the psychology of adaptive grief responses following relationship transitions. We argue that changes two processes, in particular, can be uses to track changes in this normative reorganization process: narrative coherence and self-concept clarity. The second section of the paper suggest that individual differences in attachment anxiety and avoidance shape the variability in this normative reorganization process, largely as a result of the characteristic ways in which these styles organize emotion-regulatory tendencies. The paper closes with a series of integrative questions for future research, including a call for new studies aimed at understanding under what contexts anxiety and avoidance may be adaptive in promoting emotion recovery to separation and divorce experiences.
AB - This paper uses attachment theory as a lens for reviewing contemporary research on how adults cope with marital separation and loss. The first section of the paper discusses the process of normative attachment reorganization, or the psychology of adaptive grief responses following relationship transitions. We argue that changes two processes, in particular, can be uses to track changes in this normative reorganization process: narrative coherence and self-concept clarity. The second section of the paper suggest that individual differences in attachment anxiety and avoidance shape the variability in this normative reorganization process, largely as a result of the characteristic ways in which these styles organize emotion-regulatory tendencies. The paper closes with a series of integrative questions for future research, including a call for new studies aimed at understanding under what contexts anxiety and avoidance may be adaptive in promoting emotion recovery to separation and divorce experiences.
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U2 - 10.1016/j.copsyc.2018.03.008
DO - 10.1016/j.copsyc.2018.03.008
M3 - Review article
C2 - 29605735
AN - SCOPUS:85044597133
SN - 2352-250X
VL - 25
SP - 71
EP - 75
JO - Current Opinion in Psychology
JF - Current Opinion in Psychology
ER -