TITLE:
The Analysis of Attachment Styles through Interpersonal Circumplex Description
AUTHORS:
Wen Xue, Shouying Zhao
KEYWORDS:
Interpersonal Circumplex, Attachment Style, Interpersonal Relationship, Dyads
JOURNAL NAME:
Psychology,
Vol.2 No.7,
October
27,
2011
ABSTRACT: The study explored how the dyads with different attachment styles behave towards Leary’s circumplex in coop- erative and competitive tasks. 100 strangers as a sample were surveyed through two experiments on computer, by using RBQ (Riverside Behavioral Q-sort) to examine their interpersonal traits through rated by experimenters. Relation Questionnaire (RQ) and ECR were also used to measure their attachment styles. There are three con- clusions based on the results of this study that: 1) Individuals of different attachment styles in interpersonal in- teraction had shown different trend of interpersonal styles; 2) Individuals of different attachment styles take up different area in interpersonal circumplex, which proves that it is continuous not discrete of interpersonal at- tachment style; 3) the dyads in different sex of different attachment types showed different satisfaction in these two tasks.