Does Romantic Partner Support Buffer the Effect of Attachment Insecurities on Negative Emotions? A Systematic Review
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- Mosannenzadeh, Farnaz Behavioural Science Institute, Radboud University Nijmegen, The Netherlands
- Kouri, Georgia ORCID Department of Psychology, Fribourg University, Switzerland
- Luijten, Maartje Behavioural Science Institute, Radboud University Nijmegen, The Netherlands
- Schoebi, Dominik ORCID Department of Psychology, Fribourg University, Switzerland
- Karremans, Johan C. Behavioural Science Institute, Radboud University Nijmegen, The Netherlands
- 2025
Published in:
- Collabra: Psychology / Dono, Marcos. - University of California Press. - 2025, vol. 11, no. 1, p. 1-21
English
We systematically reviewed the empirical research on whether a romantic partner’s support buffers the positive association between attachment insecurity and negative emotions. PubMed, PsychInfo, and Web of Science were searched for English, peer-reviewed articles that were published from 1969 to September 2020; included empirical studies on healthy human adults (Mage >= 18) who were in a romantic relationship; and tested the interaction between actor adult attachment and partner support in predicting actor emotions. We used descriptive vote counting to synthesize and report the results of 27 included articles, including 31 studies (2689 couples and 191 individuals) and 151 analyses. Partner support buffered the effect of attachment insecurity on emotions in nine percent of all analyses. We discuss theoretical implications and directions for future research. Specifically, the current findings underscore the call for a more nuanced and differentiated view of partner support as a buffer against attachment insecurities.
- Faculty
- Faculté des lettres et des sciences humaines
- Department
- Département de Psychologie
- Language
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- English
- License
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CC BY
- Open access status
- gold
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- DOI 10.1525/collabra.130079
- ISSN 2474-7394
- Persistent URL
- https://folia.unifr.ch/unifr/documents/336327
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