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dc.contributor.authorLee, Juwon
dc.contributor.authorGillath, Omri
dc.date.accessioned2016-03-30T15:18:20Z
dc.date.available2016-03-30T15:18:20Z
dc.date.issued2016
dc.identifier.citationLee, J., & Gillath, O. (2016). Perceived closeness to multiple social connections and attachment style: A longitudinal examination. Social Psychological and Personality Science. doi: 10.1177/1948550616644963en_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1808/20607
dc.description.abstractThroughout life people form multiple close connections. These connections play an important role, such as social and instrumental support. Despite this, relatively little is known about how and why closeness to multiple others changes over time. To fill this gap, we examined changes in perceived closeness to multiple social connections and used a well-studied relational individual difference—attachment style—to shed light on those changes. Multilevel analysis and different indexes revealed that attachment avoidance was associated with lower mean perceived closeness and greater fluctuations in perceived closeness over time. These associations were moderated by attachment anxiety, such that low levels of avoidance and anxiety (i.e., security) were associated with greater stability of perceived closeness. Our results demonstrate that perceived closeness in one’s social connections tend to change, even over relatively short periods of time, and individual differences such as attachment style are important correlates of these changes.en_US
dc.publisherSAGEen_US
dc.relation.isversionofhttps://us.sagepub.com/en-us/nam/social-psychological-and-personality-science/journal201952en_US
dc.subjectAdult attachmenten_US
dc.subjectClose relationshipsen_US
dc.subjectIndividual differencesen_US
dc.subjectInterpersonal relationshipsen_US
dc.subjectAdvanced quantitative methodsen_US
dc.titlePerceived closeness to multiple social connections and attachment style: A longitudinal examinationen_US
dc.typeArticleen_US
kusw.kuauthorLee, Juwon
kusw.kudepartmentPsychologyen_US
dc.identifier.doi10.1177/1948550616644963
kusw.oaversionScholarly/refereed, author accepted manuscripten_US
kusw.oapolicyThis item meets KU Open Access policy criteria.en_US
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