Time After Time: Attachment Orientations and Impression Formation in Initial and Longer-Term Team Interactions
If securely attached individuals typically exhibit more desirable attributes, can insecure individuals be perceived positively when working in teams despite their interpersonal disadvantages? In an exploratory study, using both a vignette based experimental research design (n = 636) and a round-robi...
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| author | Dritjon Gruda Raul Antonio Berrios Konstantinos G. Kafetsios Konstantinos G. Kafetsios Jim Allen McCleskey |
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| description | If securely attached individuals typically exhibit more desirable attributes, can insecure individuals be perceived positively when working in teams despite their interpersonal disadvantages? In an exploratory study, using both a vignette based experimental research design (n = 636) and a round-robin study of professionals working on a team task for nine consecutive weeks (k = 648), we examined the evolving impressions of insecurely attached individuals over time. We find that while anxiously attached individuals are perceived more positively in initial interactions, this initial positive effect for anxious attachment disappeared over time as individuals within teams gained more relational knowledge about their team members. We also found a stable and negative effect of avoidant attachment. We discuss possible reasons for the temporal underpinnings of this effect and compare our findings to previous literature. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-b94c20274c6c462ea00ef5d023b039802022-12-22T03:24:05ZengFrontiers Media S.A.Frontiers in Psychology1664-10782022-05-011310.3389/fpsyg.2022.882162882162Time After Time: Attachment Orientations and Impression Formation in Initial and Longer-Term Team InteractionsDritjon Gruda0Raul Antonio Berrios1Konstantinos G. Kafetsios2Konstantinos G. Kafetsios3Jim Allen McCleskey4School of Business, Maynooth University, Maynooth, IrelandFacultad de Administración y Economía, Universidad de Santiago, Santiago, ChileSchool of Fine Arts, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, GreeceKatedra Psychologie, Palacký University, Olomuc, CzechiaWestern Governors University, Salt Lake City, UT, United StatesIf securely attached individuals typically exhibit more desirable attributes, can insecure individuals be perceived positively when working in teams despite their interpersonal disadvantages? In an exploratory study, using both a vignette based experimental research design (n = 636) and a round-robin study of professionals working on a team task for nine consecutive weeks (k = 648), we examined the evolving impressions of insecurely attached individuals over time. We find that while anxiously attached individuals are perceived more positively in initial interactions, this initial positive effect for anxious attachment disappeared over time as individuals within teams gained more relational knowledge about their team members. We also found a stable and negative effect of avoidant attachment. We discuss possible reasons for the temporal underpinnings of this effect and compare our findings to previous literature.https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2022.882162/fullattachment theoryteamsocial interactionsexperimentdiary study |
| spellingShingle | Dritjon Gruda Raul Antonio Berrios Konstantinos G. Kafetsios Konstantinos G. Kafetsios Jim Allen McCleskey Time After Time: Attachment Orientations and Impression Formation in Initial and Longer-Term Team Interactions Frontiers in Psychology attachment theory team social interactions experiment diary study |
| title | Time After Time: Attachment Orientations and Impression Formation in Initial and Longer-Term Team Interactions |
| title_full | Time After Time: Attachment Orientations and Impression Formation in Initial and Longer-Term Team Interactions |
| title_fullStr | Time After Time: Attachment Orientations and Impression Formation in Initial and Longer-Term Team Interactions |
| title_full_unstemmed | Time After Time: Attachment Orientations and Impression Formation in Initial and Longer-Term Team Interactions |
| title_short | Time After Time: Attachment Orientations and Impression Formation in Initial and Longer-Term Team Interactions |
| title_sort | time after time attachment orientations and impression formation in initial and longer term team interactions |
| topic | attachment theory team social interactions experiment diary study |
| url | https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2022.882162/full |
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