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| Gender moderates the associations between attachment and discrete emotions in late middle age and later life | | Author(s) | Nathan S Consedine, Katherine L Fiori |
| Journal title | Aging & Mental Health, vol 13, no 6, November 2009 |
| Publisher | Taylor & Francis, November 2009 |
| Pages | pp 847-862 |
| Source | http://www.tandfonline.com |
| Keywords | Older men ; Older women ; Middle aged ; Age groups [elderly] ; Personal relationships ; Emotions ; Well being ; Correlation ; United States of America. |
| Annotation | Although patterns of attachment have been linked to patterns of emotional experience, studies in developmentally diverse samples are few and have not yet examined possible gender differences in attachment or their implications for emotional well-being. This article describes patterns of attachment in a diverse sample of 616 men and women from middle age and later life, examines the relations between attachment and nine discrete emotions, and tests the thesis that gender moderates these associations. Convenience sampling was used to derive an ethnically diverse sample of men and women from seven ethnic groups. Multiple regressions controlling for demographics found no gender differences in attachment categorisations, although men reported greater dimensional fearful avoidance. Security predicted greater joy and interest, whereas dismissingness was associated with lower shame and fear and with greater interest. Both preoccupation and fearful avoidance predicted most negative emotions but were not associated with positive emotions. Finally, gender moderated these associations such that (a) attachment security was more closely related to interest and, marginally, joy, among men; (b) fearful avoidance was more closely related to fear and contempt among men; and (c) preoccupation was associated with greater interest among men, whereas fear and contempt were associated with preoccupation among women only. Interpreted in the context of theories of emotions, the social origins of emotional experience, and the different roles that social relationships have for ageing men and women, the data imply that attachment styles may differentially predict male emotions because of their less diverse networks. (KJ/RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-100210223 A |
| Classmark | BC: BD: SE: BB: DS: DL: D:F:5HH: 49: 7T |
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