University of Greenwich, Eltham, London.
Omega (Westport). 2012;66(2):135-51. doi: 10.2190/om.66.2.c.
Two studies are reported which explore romance as a means of terror management for participants with secure and insecure attachment styles. Mikulincer and Florian (2000) have shown that while mortality salience increases the desire for intimacy in securely attached individuals, the insecurely attached use cultural world views rather than close relationships to cope with fear of death. Study 1 used the romantic belief scale to compare the effects of attachment style and mortality salience on the cultural aspects of close relationships and showed that the only the insecurely attached were more romantic following mortality salience. Study 2 replicated this effect and demonstrated that this difference was not simply due to lower self-esteem in the insecurely attached. The additional inclusion of the Relationship assessment questionnaire failed to provide any evidence that the securely attached were affected by the mortality salience manipulation, even on a more interpersonal measure.
报告了两项研究，探讨了浪漫关系作为一种安全型和不安全型依恋风格参与者的恐惧管理手段。米库林策尔和弗洛里安（2000 年）表明，虽然死亡凸显会增加安全依恋个体对亲密关系的渴望，但不安全依恋个体则利用文化世界观而不是亲密关系来应对对死亡的恐惧。研究 1 使用浪漫信仰量表比较了依恋风格和死亡凸显对亲密关系文化方面的影响，结果表明，只有不安全依恋个体在死亡凸显后才会更加浪漫。研究 2 复制了这一效应，并表明这种差异不仅仅是由于不安全依恋个体的自尊心较低所致。增加使用关系评估问卷也未能提供任何证据表明安全依恋个体受到死亡凸显操纵的影响，即使在更具人际性的测量中也是如此。
