APS

2025 APS Annual Convention · 2025

Anxious and Avoidant Attachment Orientations Predict Positivity Dampening

Washington, DC · May 2025

Poster · Personality/Emotion

Session: Poster Session IX

Authors

Abstract

We examined the relationship between avoidant and anxious attachment in adults and positivity dampening using hierarchical regression (N = 145, 86 females, Mage = 23.82). Results indicate that both anxious attachment and avoidant attachment are highly predictive of the tendency to dampen positive information.

Mood Disorders