The Influence Of Intimacy Priming On The Working Models Of Attachment

Secure attachment and obsessive attachment have different characteristics of internal working model,and obsessive attachment shows temporary security attachment characteristics under the beginning of security base.In order to explore the characteristics and differences of the internal working models of secure attachment and obsessive attachment(relationship interaction model,self-others representation)under intimate and neutral situations,three parts of the study were designed.In the first part,462 female college students were tested with the Intimacy Experience Scale(ECR)and the Relationship Type Questionnaire(RQ)to investigate and analyze the relationship between attachment types and internal work models.The results showed that secure attachment had positive self-work model and positive others’ work model.Most of the obsessive attachments had negative self-work models and positive other-work models.Some obsessive attachments had positive self-work models and positive other-work models。In the second part,25 secure attachments and 25 obsessive attachments were only initiated in intimate situations,while 25 secure attachments and 24 obsessive attachments were only initiated in neutral situations.The participants in both situations needed to complete the task of judging the relationship interaction models so as to investigate and analyze the characteristics of the relationship interaction model between secure attachments and obsessive attachments under the intimate relationship situation and the difference between them.The results showed that intimate situation priming was more effective than neutral situation priming in stimulating positive interaction between subjects and their attaches.In the third part,25 secure attachments and 25 obsessive attachments were only activated by intimate relationship situations,25 secure attachments and 25 obsessive attachments were only activated by neutral situations.The participants in both situations need to complete the task of self-representation and other-representation by using EAST implicit paradigm to investigate and analyze the characteristics of self-representation and other-characteristics of secure attachment and obsessive attachment under intimate relationship situation and thedifference between them.The results showed that security attachments showed positive self-representation and positive others representation in intimate relationship situations.However,obsessive attachments showed that negative self-representation and positive other representation.