The Thin Line Between eality and Imagination: Attachment and the Effects of Relationship Threats on Sexual Fantasies  

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Birnbaum, Gurit E. ; Svitelman, Neta ; Bar-Shalom, Adi ; Porat, Omer

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin (http://journals.sagepub.com/home/pspc) vol. 34 no. 9 (Sep. 2008), page 1185-1199.
Topik: Attachment; Gender Differences; Relationship Threat; Romantic Relationships; Sexual Fantasies
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The authors examined the effects of relationship threats on sexual fantasies. In two studies, participants described a sexual fantasy following an imagination task and reported thier attachment orientations. In study 1, partcipantas imagined relationship or nonrelationship threat scenes. Result indicated that relationship threat led to fantacies that involved interpersonal distance and hostility themes. Furthermore, following relational threat, women and more anxiously attached individuals were most likely to use relationship-maintaining strategies in their fantasies. More anxiously attached individuals were lso particularly likely to represent themselves as alienated. In study 2, participants imagined sexual or emotional threat scenes. The findings showed that sexual threat elicited self-enhancement, whreas emotional threat led to fantasies involving both self-enhancement and attachment-related themes. Emotional threat was also most likely to induce negative views of others in more aviodant women. Implications for understanding the underlying functions of sexual fantasies within the context of romantic relationships are discussed.

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